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HappyHillbilly
at Mon Aug 13 04:56:23 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by HappyHillbilly ]
Yeah, I'd like to see a few pics of your setup, I always enjoy seeing different setups, different ideas & techniques. Be sure to include a pic of your sav, too.
You're the engineer and it sounds like you're on the right track, and FR has hitched up the caboose with the good info he gave. "All aboooooaaaaarrrd!"
I just got back from vacation last week, was gone for just over a week. I fed my sav a small rat the day before I left. I think the lil' sucker slipped out of his cage and raided my rat room while I was gone because it looked like he gained a lil' weight instead of losing any. Mine's a tad chubby.
I figured he'd go bonkers when I fed him since it's been awhile but he wasn't any more aggressive/eager than usual, after all, he is a 2ft male sav. Hahaha!!!
Based on what little I know, from my personal experience and from what Frank said, I'd say your feeding schedule for the upcoming weeks sounds about right. The only thing I might do differently is feed him rodent(s) the 2nd meal, the one just before you leave. I just like mixing it up, variety, if I were feeding him insects, that is. Mine hasn't seen any insects since I've had him. Strictly rats, with an occasional meal of fish once in a great while. (Why fish? Heh, when I buy a few dozen baitfish for my gator every now & then he sometimes goes ballistic and kills several without eating them. I give those to my sav.)
When I said "This includes withholding food like FR said." I didn't mean for long periods at a time, I meant skipping a meal here, meal there.
FR,
When you said, "About me mentioning the fasting. This does not have to be applied." are you saying that reducing prey amount/size and stimulation will work, or, an occassional withholding of a meal along with both stimulation & prey amount/size reduction, combined, should be used?
I can only imagine that we can only stimulate a sav so much, so I'm thinking that in some cases it may be necessary to withold a meal here & there. Of course, there are quite a few variables involved.
Have a good one!
HH
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RE: Sav Diet - rodents vs insects - HappyHillbilly, Mon Aug 13 04:56:23 2007