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Is it okay to be feeding a sav...ground turkey and steak???

Are there any other alternatives to crickets?

I could feed mice but I've heard that it might cause and obesity problem.

Also, how much should a sav typically be fed?
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too much of any food can make a monitor fat you just have to watch how much you give them because they will eat till they almost blow up ,i have five savannah's and i just watch how much food intake i give them i try to stick to a rodent and chick diet mainly that way they get the vitamins and the calcium they need to be healthy and have strong bones, sometimes ill give them some turkey ball's mixed with vitamins and calcium suplement, and one more important thing for monitors exspeacially savannahs make sure they have a water dish big enough to get into so there bodies dont get to dehydrated very important for there digestive process...good luck

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Whole animal foods do not cause obesity or impactions (old wives tale), they are the best diet we have available to them in captivity. Of course your free to experiment and find out for yourself.
Obesity, impactions, are caused by improper husbandry. I noted a comment on a large enough dish to soak in another response, thats a bandaid to cover the real problem, again improper housing and husbandry as the animal should have no reason to have to soak. Deep digable substrate that holds moisture for the animal solves the problem of soaking, proper basking temps and ambient air temps fix the obesity problem, impactions are a dehydration problem, and fatty liver disease is from an extremely obese animal being fasted suddenly instead of having adjustments made in its diet.