New monitor (salvator)

[murrindindi]

Originally Posted by jpsteele80

As far as fish, if you want to stick with better stuff like trout, salmon ect. that's fine, don't feed gold fish that's some of the dirtiest crap you can feed your monitor, personally I'd just stick to what works for a water monitor, mice then rats, occasionally fish. Just because you can feed it something and it will eat it doesn't mean you should, how often do you see monitors eating ground turkey out in the wild?

Hi, either fresh or saltwater fish can be offered on a very regular basis (as regularly as rodents/other mammals/any other suitable whole prey). A few goldfish are fine. I have no idea why you suggest fish should only be fed occasionally?
Varanids in the wild eat virtually anything they consider food, "healthy" items or not.
I`d be interested is seeing a few pics of your Water monitor/s if you have any, plus details of age/length of time under you care, etc.

[jpsteele80]

Originally Posted by murrindindi

Hi, either fresh or saltwater fish can be offered on a very regular basis (as regularly as rodents/other mammals/any other suitable whole prey). A few goldfish are fine. I have no idea why you suggest fish should only be fed occasionally?
Varanids in the wild eat virtually anything they consider food, "healthy" items or not.
I`d be interested is seeing a few pics of your Water monitor/s if you have any, plus details of age/length of time under you care, etc.

I no longer have my water monitor but when I did have him he was under my care for almost 3 years,( before I moved and had to get rid of all my animals) and this isn't the wild this is captivity, Yeah they eat almost anything in the wild they can get a hold of but in the wild you don't know when your next meal is going to come either, and when I make comments about the fish like that it comes from people like Crusty who have been breeding monitors far longer than anyone here and I'll take his advice over anyone's.

[smy_749]

Originally Posted by jpsteele80

I no longer have my water monitor but when I did have him he was under my care for almost 3 years,( before I moved and had to get rid of all my animals) and this isn't the wild this is captivity, Yeah they eat almost anything in the wild they can get a hold of but in the wild you don't know when your next meal is going to come either, and when I make comments about the fish like that it comes from people like Crusty who have been breeding monitors far longer than anyone here and I'll take his advice over anyone's.

Hi Jp,

Krusty doesn't keep any water monitors. The biggest species he keeps are indicus as far as I know, and he doesn't keep the larger localities. I'm fairly certain that Krusty (Justin) would not say feeding fish to species that spend most of their time in the water is wrong. Please don't give people a bad name in order to prove your point.

[murrindindi]

Originally Posted by jpsteele80

I no longer have my water monitor but when I did have him he was under my care for almost 3 years,( before I moved and had to get rid of all my animals) and this isn't the wild this is captivity, Yeah they eat almost anything in the wild they can get a hold of but in the wild you don't know when your next meal is going to come either, and when I make comments about the fish like that it comes from people like Crusty who have been breeding monitors far longer than anyone here and I'll take his advice over anyone's.

No need to get defensive sport, I was responding to what you said, that`s all!
As far as I`m aware, Justin (krustly) does not and has never kept Water monitors? And again, as far as I`m aware does not recommend feeding mainly rodents to them and fish only occasionally?
I mainly use a rodent fish/seafood based diet which seems to work very well.