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Gatorhunter
at Sun Aug 19 01:56:02 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Gatorhunter ]
This is where i agree with FR on you have to listen to your monitor. The big subject of the discussion was dusting crickets with a vitamin, calcium supplment since the stors showed a low Ca/p ratio. Like Daniel had mentioned in his first post, he has had success with other stors (no probs).
Anyways while watching this discussion grow on two forums I always find myself caught at the fact that *****there is no calcium, vitamin supplment station for the monitors (in this case Austraila)to dab their food in.***** If a monitor is keep properly and feed properly then "normally" it should have no major issues, however there will always be the rare properly keep monitor that will have health issues (just a way of life)
I see krusty and others point-of-view on the importance of this and that chemical and the effects on the animal. I think as long as the monitor has access food items they offer proper nutrition then dusting with minerals and such is kind of a waste of time when combined with proper caging.
In easy terms if the monitors are crunching down lizards, rodents, insects or what they grab a hold of and over power and are living and breeding successfully this way in the wild without supplements then why should we provide supplements. wild monitors: Proper habitat proper nutrition = breeding and surviving
captive monitors: proper caging proper nutrition= breeding, happy monitor
same out come which is good enough for my monitor
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RE: A husbandry post. - Gatorhunter, Sun Aug 19 01:56:02 2007