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so tomorrow is trout season in PA (woo hoo) and ive read monitors can eat pieces of catfish and other white meat fish. first, would i boil the fish? i figure boil because well its fish, even tho they are state stocked and fed a special formula before they hit the river they might need to be cooked, yet ive seen a monitor eat live goldfish. so do you think a melinus might want to try trout? if so how should i cook it, if cook it at all?

dont feed it goldfish they are fatty and ur monitor will get a vitiman deficency. and u can just nuke the fish and put reptile vitiman powder on it

ok so i can feed it trout, i just nuke it until its cooked with vitamon powder or just to heat it up?

How about you eat the trout, and feed your monitor something like mice. It would be far better off that way.

I wonder why you would want to feed your monitor trout, is it for you, my bet is yes, because of course your monitor would eat it, heck ackies eat fish. Its just not the best for you monitor. So it must be for you.

And cooking?????? if your going to feed your monitor fish, how about feeding bait fish as they are whole and contain much more thats good for your monitor, and cooking, well that also takes away from, not add to.

Who does the cooking in nature??? The monitor chef, is that a new reality show?

And don't get mad at me, heck people come here and ask if they can feed their monitors, deer they shot, moose, buffalo and more. Whats odd is the bird hunters like to eat what they hunt and do not share with the monitors. hahahahahahaha Bird must taste better then other game animals. i wonder if they would eat shark, mainly mako, now that would be interesting. My bet is yes, and mainly if its cooked just right.

You really should laugh at your post and my reply. Yes, your monitor is much better off consuming something known to allow good progress, anything less takes away from. And as far as I can tell, all our monitors need all the help they can get, they do not need less then. The point is, meat of any type is less then. It does not contain what the whole animals does. So unless your catching undersized trout there your monitor can consume the whole fish, its not a good idea, and you would be far better off enjoying the trout yourself, heck invite some friends over and share with them. Donate the fish to a soup kitchen, all would be better.

ive read people feed monitors pieces of catfish fillet and its full fo some kinda nutriet or some BS so i figured id ask if they can eat trout, i love trout, i eat tons and catch tons. but monitors can eat bait fish? great, i got some left from fishing lol

so i went and bought mice at the petstore, my monitor is a psycho when he gets fed mice, he grabs them, smashes them against the cage wall, throws them in his water dish which is like a little freaking pond them eats them lol. it was worth the 2.50 for the mice.

You are correct sir if he plans on making it a staple of it's diet but if he feeds it something of that nature once a week to break the monoutiny of feeding mice to it day in day out that's fine. Monitors eat meat and cooking the meat only insures no parasites. Viti powder gives them what the brains liver and anus lol that u don't feed them ( usually) would.

Cook to make sure no parisites and yes put some vity powder on after