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RE: New Savannah monitor owner

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Posted by: rkruse3 at Sat Dec 29 17:13:23 2012  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by rkruse3 ]  
   

Thank you for your response!



I seem to be getting extremely conflicting information about Savannahs. With my other reptiles I have always known someone who breeds them for a living so it has been very easy for me to just talk to them and find out what I need to know. With savannah's it have been the opposite.



A lot of the sites I have been reading say that I need to keep a fairly high humidity level throughout the entire enclosure and that a sandy soil mix or cypress mulch would be great because it can conserve moisture. HOWEVER, what you say does make sense and has been confirmed somewhat by researching savannah grasslands.



I actually have a large solid plywood enclosure (with the exception of the windows in the doors) that has two very large solid "hoods" that hold my lighting out of the reach of the monitor. There is very little ventilation in the enclosure. I have 4 smaller heat lights and two 4' fluorescent lights in the fixtures.



As far as the feeding is concerned, the so called online "experts" say that feeding anything that is not an insect or a marine invertebrate is horrible (I try NOT to trust what they say, but with monitors I am by no means an expert). You are saying that rodents, raw turkey, eggs, and insects are okay? I have both calcium and a herp vitamin supplement. I do not mind feeding rodents as they can be easy to come by particularly if she will eat F/T.


   

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