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I just heard Feeding hard boiled eggs isn't good for them, true or not?.. what else can you feed them besides monitor diet, mice, mealworms and crickets... Hes an adult so he doesn't like crickets and he hates the monitor diet. thanks
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i feed mine about 4 thawed out adult mice every other day. she is a year old too. i stopped with the insects when it was getting ridiculous buying 100 crickets every day. I do give her a dish of super worms or some kind of a treat like that about once or twice a month, and i know your not supposed to give them the monitor diet past the baby/juvenile stage cause it is very fattening. I have not messed with eggs or turkey or anything like that and she seems happy.

Here we go- i found this quote from Proexotics.com (check out the site, it is helpful.

Your monitor is not a child, it doesn't need "treats". It needs terrific husbandry, great temps, and a proven, nutritious diet. Rodents, feeder insects, DONE.

Feeding these treats, or esoteric foods, is ALL ABOUT YOU. But it isn't about you, it is about the monitor. Quit projecting your appetite on your animal!

Rodents are whole foods. Nutritionally complete in a handy little package. Feeder insects are safe, nutritious and provide good roughage.

Offering food items like eggs is only asking for trouble. They are not nutritionally balanced, and you risk getting your stubborn monitor hooked on an inappropriate diet. Offering cooked meat is ignorant. Your monitor is not evolved to properly digest cooked foods. They eat their meat RAW, that is what they are built for.

Your monitor will be plenty "happy" eating rodents and feeder insects. If it does not want to eat these items, it is YOUR fault, not the fault of the monitor. You are delinquent in some aspect of husbandry. Temperature, substrate choice, lack of hide spots, cage overcrowding, there is a problem in there somewhere. Find it and fix it.

A properly setup monitor of any size does not need to be enticed to eat by offering eggs, beef heart, or lollipops. Take a harder look at YOUR husbandry, and technique, you will find the problem there, not in the appetite of the monitor.

If you are committed to being a responsible monitor owner, feed a proven, nutritious diet. Rodents and feeder insects. DONE.

According to Daniel Bennett ( spelling?) Savannas are primarily insectivorious in the wild...main items being brachytrupes( giant crickets),giant millipedes, locusts ,and emperor scorpions.They will also eat eggs of ground nesting birds,lizards,snakes,and some mammal newborns when they get lucky. "People food" always gives ours a runny stool so we keep it to a minimum. He loves thawed baby chicks which are very affordable from www.americanrodent.com .They mail 'em right to your house.We alternate those with jumbo mice and skip a day a couple times a week to avoid obesity...which isn't easy when he looks at you with that flicking tongue and amber eyes.GOD BLESS...

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