Does anyone have Monitor Feeding schedule ?

[ReptileCraz]

@Jbean Thanks for the info on meats
@AGoldReptiles What do you mean by whole foods? Like on the whole chicken do you mean by the product should contain or by a whole chicken?

[AGoldReptiles]

Just as it sounds.. The whole animal or fish, not parts of it. If you want to feed chicken, feed chicks not chicken breast . If you want to feed fish use whole fish, not just filets. I hope this is clearer. Good Luck and check out the sites I linked. The answers to just about any question you can come up with are there, you just have to put in the effort and time to read it

[ReptileCraz]

Alright Thanks

[infernalis]

Hello. I have been keeping a Sav I raised from birth for the last 5 years and he is as healthy as they can be.

I have to agree, NOTHING from a can should ever be fed, too much garbage in the ingredients.

Whole prey items are a must, Processed people foods are a huge NO go, if you read packaged seafood ingredients it always reads like this..

Shrimp, Salt, monosodium this, monosodium that.

Sodium (salt) will cause organ problems and eventually lead to gout. Stick to fresh and or organic shrimp/crab mollusks.

Eventually your monitor will go for roaches, make sure you get a large colony going.

As for a schedule, I can only offer what I do.. in nature they are faraging animals, they rarely find a whole meal at once, they hunt for a while, find a prey item, eat it and resume hunting.

With that in mind, I feed mine a small helping of roaches in the morning, a few night crawlers around lunch time, a handful of shrimp around dinner time, and a few more roaches just before I go to bed.

I have a nice lean sav that can run fast and is quite the opposite of lethargic and obese.

I cannot offer anything about Nile Monitors, as I have never kept one.

read this whole site over, save it as your favourite site, all husbandry issues are addressed.

http://savannahmonitor.org/

Good luck with your Varanus (Monitors)

[ReptileCraz]

Thanks .For the shrimp do you feed it with or without skin?

[infernalis]

Thanks .For the shrimp do you feed it with or without skin?

Shells on, provides calcium.

Like I said though, bagged shrimp has a lot of salt added, you have to get the kind they sell at the seafood section of higher end markets that is sitting out on the crushed Ice.

Whole crabs and crayfish are a fave too, shells, claws and all.

As long as you provide nice high temps, lots of humidity, savs can digest almost anything.