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In captive , we always supplied rodents for most adult monitors . This seems to be a common sense for feed adult monitors. Actually , one of my friends told me today , he said , niles will eating most of mollusks in wild . Including slugs and snails in water . It's still difficult to keep a nile from JV to AD here . Some keepers and hobbists are guessing maybe the problem was from their diet . As I known , their tooth is different from other monitors .Their tooth is more adaptable to chewing snails and shells in water .

Perhaps ... just perhaps ...

Maybe we sould supply some snails or shells for niles in captive as their diet ?
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It's always best to feed a varied diet, as that's what they would get in the wild. My experience with Niles is that they will eat almost anything they can catch. I fed mine mostly rodents, but also whole small fish, snails, crayfish, squid, large arthropods (cockroaches and grasshoppers), shrimp, eggs (fresh quail eggs and hard-boiled chicken eggs), and small crabs. Most of these were readily available in bait shops or Asian food markets. I simply picked up the snails from our garden, as we don't spread poison or fertilizer. The crabs were very small, probably 2 inches or less across the shell, and soft-shelled. She absolutely LOVED the squid - but it was quite smelly - both going in and coming out - so she got that rarely. She really enjoyed chasing the crayfish and cockroaches, and would also fish for minnows and goldfish in her water bowl. Several companies also offer canned snails and grasshoppers for reptile food, which my current (water and Argus) monitors love. Good thing my Argus hasn't figured out how to open the cans - yet.