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bob
at Thu Nov 12 18:30:31 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by bob ]
Ive done it both ways, frozen in the cage which thaws pretty quick or thawed with hot water for larger rodents. Dont matter they eat it all. Monitors are not fussy and have survived through diversity in food/prey items for many years. I will never forget seeing a documentry on monitors that showed a monitor crawling inside the huge shell of a dead rotted putrified sea turtle lapping up the stinking rotten remanins, that says it all in a nut shell. Canadian night crawlers is someting to consider, although not found in OZ maybe the dwarfs would eat them? I think eggs of any form to be a more natural food selection as they are in the wild. A good friend of mine who specializes in Herp medicine [VET] raised up a baby beaded lizard I gave him on mostly hard boiled eggs, I couldnt believe it was just as large as my holdbacks who had been eating rodents. Eating alot of eggs produces some nasty fecal matter for sure. I try and spread the menu across the board of balance.
Bob
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RE: Thawing Rodents - bob, Thu Nov 12 18:30:31 2009 