Hi again, thanks for your very thoughtful reply.

First of all, if you read my initial response, I said I agreed with much of what you said, the only criticism I had was when you stated the the poster should keep feeding pinky mice, and then stick to an all rodent diet. However, (adult) mice in particular, have a relatively high fat content, and pinky mice for an adult Savannah monitor, are almost useless!

I`ve personally seen the effects of feeding a large ammount of mice to the Bosc`s monitor, the outcome was death after less than one year on the diet, due at least in part to fat deposits around the vital organs, even though the animal/s were kept under "optimum conditions", so proper digestion wasn`t the problem.

Any thoughts?

My responses, like yours, were intended to help the keeper help the animal!

The important points I made were to get an accurate temp and humidity reading, then ask the enclosure size, it was obviously much too small, no way to maintain the temp range or humidity these animal require, as you will know, that will cause many serious problems.

Can you show me a few pics of 10 year old (or older), V. exanthematicus, that have been fed a diet consisting exclusively of rodents throughout their life? In fact, a ten year old Bosc fed on ANY whole prey diet would be quite rare, I think!? (Sadly)

Thanks...

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