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12-20-12, 08:00 AM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
There was actually a study done on that recently, chicks have the same nutritional value as rodents. Unweaned rodents (pinks, fuzzies, etc.) actually have less nutritional value than chicks, due to the lack of calcified bones and developed muscle mass.
Gregg, how much do you feed daily? As much as they want or is it a more regulated schedule? I've been wondering if their diets really need to be cut back as they mature, if they are given proper conditions.
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12-20-12, 08:53 AM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
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how much do you feed daily? As much as they want or is it a more regulated schedule? I've been wondering if their diets really need to be cut back as they mature, if they are given proper conditions.
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Allow me to interject.....
A pattern that I have observed, mine are nearing maturity, and I am seeing periods where my lizards appear satiated (not really hungry) and will not necessarily fly out of the burrow at the first hint of food.
I have put food items back in the fridge before.
Apparently they know when they need to eat, and when they don't.
Not that I can say first hand with monitors, but when I see most any wild animal that discovers the dream location of limitless food.. like the water snake that finds the fish infested puddle or the rodent eaters that move into a mouse infested barn... are they obese?? hell no, they get big, they get strong, they (ahem) thrive.
When my barn was truly active, and we kept bins of sweet feed out there, it became overrun with rodents, The milk snakes showed up, and the ones I saw around my barn were huge, but unless they just recently fed, never FAT or slow.
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12-20-12, 09:11 AM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
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Allow me to interject.....
A pattern that I have observed, mine are nearing maturity, and I am seeing periods where my lizards appear satiated (not really hungry) and will not necessarily fly out of the burrow at the first hint of food.
I have put food items back in the fridge before.
Apparently they know when they need to eat, and when they don't.
Not that I can say first hand with monitors, but when I see most any wild animal that discovers the dream location of limitless food.. like the water snake that finds the fish infested puddle or the rodent eaters that move into a mouse infested barn... are they obese?? hell no, they get big, they get strong, they (ahem) thrive.
When my barn was truly active, and we kept bins of sweet feed out there, it became overrun with rodents, The milk snakes showed up, and the ones I saw around my barn were huge, but unless they just recently fed, never FAT or slow.
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My thoughts exactly. Daniel Benett observed in the wild that they would go and fill up on food, then return to their burrows. None of them are obese. Why should the same not be true in captivity?
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12-20-12, 01:13 PM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
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As part of a well rounded diet, Chicks are fine mate.
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Thanks Infernalis =]
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12-23-12, 03:04 AM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
Ok so I have been feeding my baby sav two pinkies a day some times three and and five large crickets and sometimes I'll throw in a few meal worms is this substantial or should I increase the feeding she seem to take every time exept for the meal worms she doesn't always take those unless I give her them first I'm guessing its because she doesn't care for them as much as the other food
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12-23-12, 09:07 AM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
If she's eighteen inches, it should be more than that. Give her as much as she wants. Though I'd scrap the mealworms, there isn't really any good nutritional value in them.
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12-23-12, 01:06 PM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
Ok should I stay with two to three pinkies a day and up the crickets or should up the amount of pinkies or both because on one of the websites I had read when I first got her and was doing a little research it said two-four pinkies ever two days or can I give her as many pinkies a day as shell take
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12-23-12, 04:56 PM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
Up everything. I'd say mainly up the crickets, but more pinkies too. You also want to try throwing some variety in there. Try earthworms and roaches as well.
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12-23-12, 07:48 PM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
They don't do earthworms or roaches here at this petco but one of the ladies there said I could feed her some Minos is this true I bought a few me way before researching though because I needed something and they were out of crickets and frozen pinkies because their shipment got rerouted I haven't fed them to her yet though
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12-23-12, 11:15 PM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
You don't need to buy from Petco.. Start your own roach colony, and buy nightcrawlers from a fishing shop nearby.
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12-23-12, 11:32 PM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
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They don't do earthworms or roaches here at this petco but one of the ladies there said I could feed her some Minos is this true I bought a few me way before researching though because I needed something and they were out of crickets and frozen pinkies because their shipment got rerouted I haven't fed them to her yet though
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I Buy my night crawlers in the sporting goods section of Wal Mart.
Every wal mart has a big cooler full of worms next to the fishing poles and lures.
Whole raw shrimp (organic) can be found at most larger grocery stores.
Asian Markets often sell snails and small crabs really cheap too.
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12-23-12, 11:53 PM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
Ok thank you that helps.... But also what about the Minos are those ok to feed
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12-24-12, 12:37 AM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
What's a Mino ???
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12-24-12, 12:57 AM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
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What's a Mino ???
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I think she means minnow and just can't spell.
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12-24-12, 02:12 AM
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Re: How much and how often should I feed
As many minnows as it will eat. whole live minnows are good food, provided the lizard will take it.
Some Savs are not real keen on eating fish, I have one that destroys minnows, the other could care less and does not recognise them as a food item.
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