variety in diet

Lrptls · 04-19-04, 07:10 PM

i love giving my herps a large variety of foods (except the snakes, they sort kinda only eat rodents) but i ofcourse only feed whats safe for them to eat.

i keep hearing that the locusts are coming out this year and there suposedly going to be every where so i was wondering if i either got them from the woods (it could be less likely they went into a yard and ate plants sprayd by something) or captured some and bred them, if it would be safe to feed them to my chinese water dragon or savannah monitor.

i have also been wondering about house geckos and green anoles?

WingedWolf · 04-20-04, 06:20 AM

Locusts would be fine feeders, indeed. There are instructions on breeding grasshoppers as feeders floating around the web, if you hunt. Whether you want to risk that they've gotten into pesticides....well, you know the area better than we do. Locusts can travel LONG distances. And they do.

Don't use lizards as feeders unless your animals will eat nothing else--the possibility of parasite transmission would be nearly 100%, unless you wanted to pay 6 bucks for a CB lizard. Which would be an expensive snack.

My big male water dragon really loved rodents, though--they're a good snack for the lizards you mentioned.