New here, have a couple nile questions

[Aaron_S]

Originally Posted by Lizard geek

Thanks, and the question doesn't sound dumb at all. I've actually had some doubts. My current general care and feeding is like this:

I started feeding it crickets, now pinkies dusted with cal/d3 supplement 1-2 every day usually, depends on size of pinkies, also I let crickets roam free till they vanish. It's at an overall size of 7 or 8", guessing by the 10" tiles I'm using for the basking spot. with a temp gun bask reaches around 115-120 at the height of the day. I'm keeping temps around 83-92 and humidity in mid to upper 70s. for now its in a rubber tub 48"x18"x24"

What do you mean when you say the basking temps hit that height at the "height of the day"? Are you varying the basking temps?

Pics of the enclosure would help. Personally, I'm not a monitor expert at all, however I know a few things and most likely you either 1. don't have a nile 2. your temps are way off at the metabolism is super slow

Also, vary the diet. Monitors are one reptile where it matters. Roaches, crickets, worms, pinkies should all make up the diet at his size.

[dave himself]

Originally Posted by Aaron_S

What do you mean when you say the basking temps hit that height at the "height of the day"? Are you varying the basking temps?

Pics of the enclosure would help. Personally, I'm not a monitor expert at all, however I know a few things and most likely you either 1. don't have a nile 2. your temps are way off at the metabolism is super slow

Also, vary the diet. Monitors are one reptile where it matters. Roaches, crickets, worms, pinkies should all make up the diet at his size.

Thanks Aaron for jumping in