Quote Originally Posted by MMReptiles View Post
Sure, I would agree they are opportunistic. That being said, I could see an adult/larger sav eating the occasional mouse/baby mouse, but a baby sav eating a baby mouse is highly unlikely.

Regardless of the research behind it, why would you offer such a fatty food to a BABY, when lets face it. The animal DOESN'T need it.
Just a little insight, those pinks fattened up the lizards for all of 12 hours, with a nice hot cage digestion is so rapid that they were hungry again the next morning.

Now a little science nugget, These animals gather critical moisture from the food they eat, opportunities to drink are far and few between in Ghana, the rainy season is only a few weeks long.

Their physiology is such that their bodies absorb water from the food they eat, then they go down their burrows and conserve that water.

It has been proven that "soaking" does not hydrate them, and quite honestly, mine do not seem to care much about their water bowl at all.

To be honest, if I was shoving pinkies in their face all the time, I would gladly accept any criticism, but if you look at that entire group of photos, you will see a healthy mix of inverts there, and only a couple pinks.

It has been unanimously decided that improper housing is the culprit as to why so many Savs perish, and not the occasional rodent.