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hi im thinking of getting a savy thats about 3 1/2"s and i have a cage thats 4’x18"x18" and uvb bulb 15 watt
and a 85 watt heat bulb and wanted to know what vitams and minerals and how often to dust i plan on feeding ground turkey shrimp boiled scrambled and raw eggs chicken liver and heart crickets the occasional smarty pants roach fish meal worms and super worms
and for soil i plan on using all natural soil this my first monitor not reptile i have six snakes gonna be five selling carpet python to get savy and can i not use a lid or do i have to have one i know he cant get uot but im not sure if i need a lid i have one just didnt know if i needed and tell me what i need thank you

Please visit pro-exotics website and read everything there regarding monitors. Then read through this entire site with special focus on everything FR has to say. That will answer all your questions and give your new sav a running shot at a good life. Oh and get the sav book by Bennet, pro-exotics sells it. Good luck –

Tom

Forget feeding all that stuff the insects are find and as for the eggs their is controversy about them i give my 3 foot savannah a hard boiled one everyonce in awhile and make sure lid is not screen just doest give the humidy they need and hard to keep the heat.
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Tom
1.2.0 Leopard Gecko (dot, spot, leo)
0.0.1 California King Snake (booboo)
0.1.0 Sulcata Tortoise (tank)
0.0.2 Russian Tortoise (tito and lulu)
0.0.2 Red Ear Sliders (bernie and ernie)
0.0.3 Painted Turtles (larry, curly and moe)
1.0.0 Bearded Dragon (marshmellow)
0.0.1 Savannah Monitor (beef)
1.0.0 Peachfront Conure (kermit)
0.1.0 Australian Shepheard (layla)
2.1.0 Crazy Cats (babe, sabastian, tinkerbell)
0.1.0 Lion Head Rabbit (daisy)
0.1.0 Ferret (jordan)
0.2.0 Guinea Pigs (lilly and petunia)
0.0.1 White Tree Frog (dumpy jr.)
0.0.2 Fire Belly Newts (spork and blaze)
0.0.1 Fire Belly Toad (ferdinan)
0.0.1 Red Spotted Newt ( red)
0.0.2 Bull Frogs (goliath and tubby)
0.0.1 Rainbow Ameive (jack)
0.0.1 Spectacled caiman (wilbert)
Lots Of Fish

just a word of wisdom.. weather eggs are good to feed consistantly or not it is withought a doubt the worst smell in your life when it comes out the other end.. that alone stears me away from feeding them to my nile.
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the collection..
1.0 Biak Green Tree python
0.0.1 mollucan python
1.0 centrillian carpet python
1.1 macklots pythons
0.0.1 nile monitor
0.1 poecilotheria. faciata
0.1 Phsalmopoeus. cambridgi
0.1 Phsalmopoeus. irminia
1.0 Avicularia. versicolor
0.0.1 S. subspinipes

"weather eggs are good to feed consistantly or not it is withought a doubt the worst smell in your life when it comes out the other end"

I second that.

can i use canned monitor diet as a main food source

i heard that stuff is basically just canned dog food, which makes it awful to use. just stick with insects and rodents.

what i heard is it has all the nutrients already in it and the guy who im buying from has them mainly on canned

I agree the canned monitor food not as staple diet as to add variety then maybe but staple diet stick to insects and rodents just making a suggestion any problem feeding that to them then i would not get a monitor and trust me getting f/t rodents would be much cheeper than the canned food in the long run.
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Tom
1.2.0 Leopard Gecko (dot, spot, leo)
0.0.1 California King Snake (booboo)
0.1.0 Sulcata Tortoise (tank)
0.0.2 Russian Tortoise (tito and lulu)
0.0.2 Red Ear Sliders (bernie and ernie)
0.0.3 Painted Turtles (larry, curly and moe)
1.0.0 Bearded Dragon (marshmellow)
0.0.1 Savannah Monitor (beef)
1.0.0 Peachfront Conure (kermit)
0.1.0 Australian Shepheard (layla)
2.1.0 Crazy Cats (babe, sabastian, tinkerbell)
0.1.0 Lion Head Rabbit (daisy)
0.1.0 Ferret (jordan)
0.2.0 Guinea Pigs (lilly and petunia)
0.0.1 White Tree Frog (dumpy jr.)
0.0.2 Fire Belly Newts (spork and blaze)
0.0.1 Fire Belly Toad (ferdinan)
0.0.1 Red Spotted Newt ( red)
0.0.2 Bull Frogs (goliath and tubby)
0.0.1 Rainbow Ameive (jack)
0.0.1 Spectacled caiman (wilbert)
Lots Of Fish

holy no sentences.

try asking questions individually. i got dizzy just trying to decipher your post, and i am still confused.

apparently, so are you. get the Savannah book by Bennett, available on our site, or here on the classifieds. it covers the husbandry basics that you need.

from what you have posted, the knowledge you have is way off, and your questions show a need for a good solid base.

we have a Sav caresheet at our site, but absolutely positively get that book.

best of luck.
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robyn@proexotics.com

Pro Exotics Reptiles

yeah all the carresheets have me running in circles about what to do but some say you can use canned and use crickets as treats and some say you cant

get the Sav book by Bennett. it will provide you with an accurate base of husbandry info, and it is full of detail. you can use that as your reference to compare all the other info to, and then discard the garbage caresheets that are everywhere.

it is less than $15.
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robyn@proexotics.com

Pro Exotics Reptiles