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fish, frogs, crayfish....

Roaches, mice, peeps, and crickets are clean cheap and safe, plus you know they work. Most things you can catch in rivers etc arent suposed to be safe for you to eat let alone your pets. Its up to you really.

Glad you brought this up, I raise my own chicks and mice. How often and how many would be recommended for about a 20 inch savannah? I just have no idea how much she needs to eat. I also have been giving her crickets and super worms. Do I feed every day? Just any info you could give me would be greatly appreciated.

Also I saw mentioned to feed scrambled eggs and canned cat food? Ground turkey?

Also, i am ordering hissing cock roaches. how would they blend in to the diet?

Thanks
Nina

Catfood dogfood etc, think about this, no laws that regulate what goes into it or any process to ensure quality. When they clean the floor after butchering cattle, or for that matter whatever what do they do with the crud on the floor? At one time it became sausage etc. Possibly but its meat fat that makes up the meat content in them. The majority of those products are grain products made to make fluffy and rovers stool alot less smellier and less often because they live indoors. Eggs scrambled with the shell crushed into it, hmm, Id say if the animal isnt picky about what they eat and you want to add some once a month or so, then go ahead, thats all I have added to my large and medium sized monitors diets of eggs. I used to add alot of variation at first with a few of mine when they were tiny babies but after a while it becomes a hassle and doesnt do them any better.Whole animals just work so much better and are less expensive.

What you said about catfood, and dog food for that matter is definately true, however, I don't feed that stuff. I should have mentioned that when I do buy catfood, I buy one that is specifically made from human grade meat and is developed for an obligate carnivore. I usually make my own catfood with ingredients that would mimic whole prey, developed by a nutritionalist. A mouse is considered to be the perfect cat diet and we mix our foods with that in mind.

Nina

What you said about catfood, and dog food for that matter is definately true, however, I don't feed that stuff. I should have mentioned that when I do buy catfood, I buy one that is specifically made from human grade meat and is developed for an obligate carnivore. I usually make my own catfood with ingredients that would mimic whole prey, developed by a nutritionalist. A mouse is considered to be the perfect cat diet and we mix our foods with that in mind.

Nina

They eat them fast but love to dig up any escaping into the dirt.

yeah man, feed em whatever the hell you want, but are you doing it because you can't afford to feed it?

there are more proven diets like rodents

andrew

I can afford mice, it's just that since I always hear about how good fish is supposed to be(for people), that maybe fish might be a good idea. I can catch any number of crayfish and they get really big... they're arthropods and it would seem they would have the same nutritional value as crickets. The bottom line is that I don't know if it's a good idea or not. I'm not saying I want it to be or that I'm bent on doing this. If you don't know why not just say so?

I think hes saying that you shouldnt do that, but rather stick to the tried and true, rodent based diet prescribed by 99% of the most sucessful monitor breeders out there.
I could be wrong on the translation. I dont always speak the same language as a lot of these guys on here

Good luck.

Best Rgards,

Michelle

I'll stick with the tried and true.