Rescued Nile Monitor. Need advice.

[infernalis]

Whenever I have leftovers from feeding my Thamnophis, I offer whats left to the lizards, and they scoop it right up. (Organic trout is not cheap either, but after watching snakes convulse to death from STPP poisoning, I refuse to feed anything else but organic.)

Littlefoot will dive into the water dish and grab live fish right up, Cera ignores them.

Cut up, they both take it... But I bet I could get them to try and eat leggos if I offered them on tongs.

[jarich]

Ha! Ya, definitely true! Its more of the "eat first, ask questions later" kind of thing with monitors.

[Vegasarah]

Originally Posted by infernalis

Cut up, they both take it... But I bet I could get them to try and eat leggos if I offered them on tongs.

That is hilarious, my bearded dragons are like that. They hate eating their greens but if I do one dubia, one bit of green, one dubia, one green. Back and forth like that and I can trick them into it lol.

I don't even know if he's going to eat the fish, which is weird because that is one of the only things he ate for a month (goldfish)... Just offered those minnows and he would not take them. Maybe I should try live minnows instead, they could live in his water dish for probably a few days, maybe more if I feed them and oxygenate the water. Could provide some mental stimulation as well.

In the wild they can stay submerged under water for like an hour, I bet they are great fish hunters!