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I have a young croc monitor, about 5.5' in length. His diet consists of rats right now. For those of you who own crocs, have you had success with any other types of foods? I would like to provide him some variety, if possible.

Thanks for the advice.

Hello,
Keep up the rats- no need to vary... Best to you- Mike

Hello,
Try feeding different sized rats...

Thank you.

youu can feed him canned monitor diet. i feed my monitors zupreem canned monitor diet and they love it.

That should be used for babies and juvies but not adults.
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Why can you not feed supreem monitor diet to adult monitors as part of a varied menu. I can understand never to feed only one food item. But why is it okay for juvies and not adults.

Croc monitors... all monitors for that matter... should always be fed a varied diet. I feed our crocs rats, mice, chicks, rabbits, adult chickens, horse chunk meat, fish, quail, feeder snakes and lizards. the more varied a diet you can give them the better they will be NEVER feed monitors only one type of food item.
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"Create then surpass your expectations"

Thanks for all the info!

By the way, how big are your croc monitors? Do you have any pics of them?

Thank you.

The big male is about 7 foot the larger female is about 6 foot and our small female is about 4 foot and unfortunally due to zoo policy I can't post any pics of them. and as far as the horse meat goes the commisary gets it from a company in Canada I don't know its name though or if they can ship to the general public.
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"Create then surpass your expectations"

Where in the world do you get horse meat? LOL

>>Where in the world do you get horse meat? LOL

I've seen "canned horse meat" at some of the larger pet feed stores (no, I don't mean large chain stores like PetSmart).
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Mike Heinrich,
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www.amazontreeboa.org

Hello,
I feed mine 3.3 nothing but rodents and they are very healthy and breeding this year...Best to you- Mike