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thank you guys for all your help she ate her mouse just a few minuets ago ....well if anytother problems occur ill let ya kno
thanks much
cody =)

Cody,

Glad she ate! Now leave her alone for a while! Let her get situated before you stress her the heck out.

Congrats! Now that you improved your husbandry, I hope you raise a healthy monitor. If you can, post more pictures of your monitor INSIDE his enclodure(don't pick him up). As of now, try reading through the monitor forums (even old posts), there is a lot of info that will help increase your knowlege on monitors.

Se7en,

Going along with what everyone else is saying, now that your water has eaten, leave it alone for a while. They usually puke if you mess with them too soon after they eat. As anyone in this forum can tell you, it smells really wonderful, almost as good as the Durian fruits that grow in the water's native homelands, but not quite as good... Durians definitely smell better.(If you don't know anything about Durians,google them and you'll see what I mean.) Also to expand on what H.H. said about live rodents there is no reason to really feed live rodents at all (except for ocassional cheap entertainment lol.) Live rodents can cause a lot of damage to a montior very quick if left unsupervised, particularly one that is finicky about eating yet. Everything I feed(snakes and lizards both.) get prekilled for both safety and humane (to the rodents and lagamorphs)reasons with the exception of things taking pinks/fuzzies as in that case I think it is more humane to the fuzzies to just feed them rather than try to kill them first. I in fact usually feed my monitors whatever is dead dying or sick in my rodent colonies as monitors will take these while snakes usually will not. They are carrion eaters in the wild or as Steve Irwin once put it about waters "they eat the dead".