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Re: Django the Nile Monitor
After Django had a day spent finishing off the last of the nightcrawlers and 5 minnows, I went out and bought more fuzzies.
Guess who ate 9 of them in a row? 0.0
He's an eating machine, I am just in awe sometimes. He was literally trying to clamber up out of the tank to get at these mice. He caught some air on the first few just before I could get them down to his level. I came in sort of sideways and he grabbed my hand and used my arm as leverage, launching himself off it and onto the end of the tongs with the mouse. (Owww. Those claws are like razors, he cut me up pretty good)
After that feast, I let him alone for about an hour and came back and just hung out with him for a while and talked to him. He gives me the most incredulous looks sometimes, but I want to get him as used to people as I can. I let my hand dangle down in the tank, wiggling my fingers every minute or so. He seemed pretty agitated by this at first but after a little bit he actually inched over to check out my pink nail polish. He got so close I started to get nervous he might try to see what fingers tasted like. But he just flicked his tongue on them and moved away.
How do you all keep up with this massive amount of food while still trying to provide variety? It's getting very pricey, I can't wait for the reptile expo so I can buy a few hundred feeders at once!
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