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BIGHYDRO
at Thu Jul 10 03:13:43 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by BIGHYDRO ]
You were right about the AZA. It was not the AZA it was from someone the Houston Zoo. That was my bad. I don't really see how you can conclude that the obesity was from imporper husbandry when the only thing that changed was the diet, and they clearly put on too much wieght while on the diet, and then when it was switched to roaches, shrimp, and rodents the wieght came off. The diet did also make their waste smell worse, just as if you were to eat a bunch of eggs, your waste might smell a bit worse as well. So would the smell of your waste product ONLY be worse due to you not flushing the toilet. Cmon! I never said not to use the diet, and I can only truly say what my own experience with it was.
"However, the SDZ ground turkey monitor diet was originally formulated secifically for one species of monitor, and to be a completely balanced diet, and as a safe alternative to live feedings and an all rodent diet which also has known health issues such as kidney failure and impactions, it should only be used as a filler and to add some variety to their diets, and not as a staple for any species of monitor. Unfortunately there is little known about the true original formula due to the diet being passed around word of mouth and through internet sources. There is no true right or wrong diet for monitors and until there has been long term proof of success of the ground turkey diet that clearly shows no adverse side effects such as obesity, then a large variety of crickets, roaches, wax worms, fish, shrimps, and chics should be used as primary diet items. I also do not recommend rodents as a staple diet for monitors as they rarely feed on them in the wild and are much more prone to feed on insects, millipedes, scorpians, termites and other young reptiles and amphibians depending on the species."-Marcus D. White PhD.
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- New Diet? - rottenweiler9, Mon Jul 7 13:45:04 2008
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RE: I actually brought the modded post up - BIGHYDRO, Thu Jul 10 03:13:43 2008