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down below i post a message about my savanna not eating by him self well i went and bought a pinkie and laid it down on a rock and he flicked his toungue out a few times and grabed and swalowed it down.

That's a START... but a pinkie is less than a snack to that guy.
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"The serpent crams itself with animal life that is often warm and vibrant, to prolong an existence in which we detect no joy and no emotion. It reveals the depth to which evolution can sink when it takes the downward path and strips animals to the irreducible minimum able to perpetuate a predatory life in its naked horror."
Alexander Skutch

He is only 18" long.If you still think thats pinkies are to small what should i feed him?

Mine is 18-20 inches (he doesn't hold still really well to be measured) and he eats 7-8 FULL GROWN mice a week. The other day, he ate 3 in one sitting. In about 4 minutes, all 3 of them were gone. Yours is capable of that kind of stuff, but you need to get your temperatures right. I've found that 20 degrees can make all the difference in the work. Get a cheap thermometer and tell us what the hottest part of the cage is and the coldest. The hottest should be AT LEAST 130 degrees, with the coldest not much lower than 80 degrees. Get the temps like that and he'll be downing food like there's no tommorrow.
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Scott,
Proud owner of Porker the savannah monitor (currently 20inches, 550grams)

The other poster pretty much said what I was going to say. I have a snake the size of an earthworm that can eat 3 pinkies at a sitting. It's good that he's eating, now give him all the food he wants! He's probably pretty skinny by now.
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"The serpent crams itself with animal life that is often warm and vibrant, to prolong an existence in which we detect no joy and no emotion. It reveals the depth to which evolution can sink when it takes the downward path and strips animals to the irreducible minimum able to perpetuate a predatory life in its naked horror."
Alexander Skutch

Well that sucks because i just ordered 100 pinkies for him.

At 18 inches long, my Kiros was taking large mice and weaned rats...she's now almost 28 inches or so and takes 7 week old rats along with chicken parts (IE. wings, internal organs, etc) though her primary diet is rats and gerbils. Those 100 pinkies you just ordered will last maybe.. 4 or 5 days... I'd cancel the order and make a new one for hopper rats or large mice.
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Lucien

1.0 Columbian Redtail Boa (BCI)(Sutekh)
2.2 Leopard geckos (2 Blizzards (Caine and Goliath), 1 het Blizzard (Lilith) and 1 Tangerine Albino (Tequila Sunrise ...Tiki for short))
0.1 Savannah Monitor (Kiros)
13 rats
5 Gerbils
2 Dogs (Loki and Storm)
2 cats (Sahara and Hercules)

they shiped them out today so i cant cancel it.

Thought Id point that out, didnt read the rest but I noticed the pic.

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