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Hello! I have some feeding questions. I have read that feeding live pinkies is inhumane...so I bought some frozen ones, but my monitor wont eat them. Any suggestions? should I put them somewhere special? How long should I let them sit in the tank till I take them out? thank you, patrick

I prefer frozen thawed over live any day but sometimes they just prefer live food. Maybe the animal wants to eat in private without prying eyes also. I leave food in for 24 hours at the most. My timor wont eat in site of anyone unless hes eating and you walk in.

Leaving dead pinkies overnight shouldn't be a problem, especially with an animal used to scavenging likem monitors.
The live pinks really don't know what hit them, though, unless the monitor is really tiny.

that whole "they'll never know what hit them thing" was the approach i took to offering my ackies a pinkie for the first time. so i dangled it down into the cage, everything going well, roxie comes over to grab it and this HORRIBLE squeel comes out of that teenie tiny thing. natural or not it was terrible, that squeel coupled with the fact that her poo is a lot stinkier after a pinkie than a cricket has caused me to think that pinkies may only be a very occasional treat.
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3 Mali Uromastyx (Ricky, Quinn, Anna)
1 Yellow Ackies (Roxie)
1 Timor (Zealot)

Emily
www.egomantra.com/npoh

Is a proven food source. The crickets need supplemented, but ask Frank Retes who feeds nothing but mice (and some crickets,he doesnt supplement mice at all, yet cant stop his monitors from laying eggs. The monitors dung of course will smell more because of the much higher content of protien and other nutrients. When they eat mice with hair etc that smell reduces.

i still supplement my monitors, they don't get just crickets. and neither of them is really big enough to take on anything bigger than a mouse pinkie just yet.
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3 Mali Uromastyx (Ricky, Quinn, Anna)
1 Yellow Ackies (Roxie)
1 Timor (Zealot)

Emily
www.egomantra.com/npoh

I fully agree... but I talked to MoniterMan on the chat tonight, and he says to try some ground turkey... good? bad? and he says to try it in a seperate enclosure, my friend tried this, but never to any avail, the monitors just try to get out and ignore the crix... any ideas?
patrick

In the enclosure, that makes me think to look closely at the husbandry or the animals health. One was a nile and the other is my timor, yet everything else just inhaled food as I offered it. Unless that animal is just timid.