Cassie eating a fuzzy.

[BarelyBreathing]

One a week isn't "occasional".

While you're waiting for your roach colony to grow, there are other great prey items to offer to broaden her dietary spectrum.

[alessia55]

Originally Posted by BarelyBreathing

While you're waiting for your roach colony to grow, there are other great prey items to offer to broaden her dietary spectrum.

From Savannah Monitors :
A proper Savannah Monitor diet would consist of Roaches, Crickets, Night Crawlers (Large earth worms) whole snails, garden slugs, superworms and Locusts (where available) with occasional rodents and certified chemical free organic whole shrimp & crayfish as treats.

[infernalis]

From Ravi Thakoordyal, Co author of the book, established Savannah Monitor breeder...

Originally Posted by Ravi

Hi Wayne,

As far as what I fed them......pretty simple. Mice and bugs. When they were young they received a lot of crickets, super worms, locusts, pinkies/fuzzies. Once they started to hit sub-adult sizes the ratio of bugs to rodents was reversed and they ate primarily mice. In captivity it is very difficult for most keepers to keep a savannah sufficiently fed on a diet of bugs...they just eat too much. I have no issues with a rodent based diet as long as the keeper is able to support the animals regulatory needs......meaning enough heat to properly digest those meals.
This is always a touchy subject with keepers and my views may not line up with yours or others but they're based on personal experience and results so take it with a grain of salt.
I'm a huge believer in the notion that there are many ways to accomplish the same goal and keeping monitors is no different.
Thanks,
--RT--

[Akuma223]

I'm obviously no expert in any way when it comes to reptile care but how would a mouse a week hurt a Savannah? If anything it should be good for them. Just because they don't normally eat mice in the wild doesn't mean we shouldn't feed them some. I think balancing the diet out between some mice and mostly bugs would be healthy, I'm sure in the wild they would eat mice if they could. Has anyone here had any problems feeding their sav's mice? If there aren't any obvious problems it should be fine. I think balancing things between natural and improved is a good way to do things.