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jobi
at Thu Jul 10 15:32:36 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jobi ]
Its not really important how long they lived, the point is this and other man made diets cant and will not sustain captive monitors long term.
3 years ago when PE hatched there first clutch of ionides (awesome babies) a guy from Toronto obtained 10 pairs of babies (imports) he set them up like breeders do with large pythons and fed them the turkey diet exclusively, for months he bragged about the fast growth and beauty of his monitors, then the sings of MBD stated to pop up, rubber jaws, kinked backs and week legs.
Needles to say none of these monitors are alive today, don’t know if he killed them or they died, not important.
However all this don’t mean much as many experienced keepers could have succeeded where others have failed even with crappie diets, its not only about food as the best diet is nothing without proper husbandry and vis-versa.
For many years iv been trying to fault FR’s mice and crickets formula for success, iv tried all foods including the very natural and specie specific foods like African roaches, land snails, scorpions, millipedes, various and rare lizards that are known to be eaten by such and such specie.
Guess what? VIVA (Mice and crickets) This should be the very start in varanoculture, theirs plenty of husbandry parameters to play with other then food. Stop wasting time about it and start enjoying the lizards.
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- New Diet? - rottenweiler9, Mon Jul 7 13:45:04 2008
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RE: What is the context of this post? - jobi, Thu Jul 10 15:32:36 2008 