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FR
at Wed Sep 21 13:49:10 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]
Thank you again for posting.
Again with the divide and conquer(us yanks)
You said, Again, I applaud your success and wish you much success in the future. You also said that this success was arrived at with a staple diet, not a rodent only, bird only or insect only diet. Limited variety it is, but still variety. I agreed earlier that that is good advice to the new keeper until he learns more about his species. I offer a greater variety, which does offer more nutrients. Isn't that what this entire thread started with? As for Samsun’s comment on birds, I think that you can figure that one on your own; unfortunately there are people out there that I am sure you have met that never considered that. I am constantly talking to people here that have young Python molurus bivittatus and only feed them chicks.
I have experimented with diet, which a good researcher should do. As an example, the female thats 10 years old(I hatched her) and gravid on her 60th clutch, has been fed mice only her entire life. So with that in mind, what could be added by varing the diet that would help her increase her success? Consider, she is record setting.
I understand the use of a varied diet, its to cover the needs when any or all of the elements of the diet are not complete. Now consider, rodents, lab rats and mice, have been shown as a complete diet for hundreds and thousands of generations of captive snakes. It has also been shown to be complete with our monitors. To vary a complete diet with incomplete items, actually serves no purpose nutritionaly.
If you offer mental stimulation as an arguement, than you would have my agreement. It is here, I recomend giving monitors, "something new do investigate" But alas, the discussion was nutritional. And mice do the trick.
Thank you again, FR
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RE: Concerns aswered, or at least addressed? - FR, Wed Sep 21 13:49:10 2005