do you meen only once a week and no crickets if so thats crap or do you meen once a week his bosc gets some rats

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no they wont entertain insects of any kind....

he bought them as adults and was told by previous owners they never ate insects and get fed once a week on rats...

He continues this and yes i have told him of there dietry needs but he dont listen

okey dokey hope you dont mind me asking questions on your thread but,

too bosc owners what isit that insects have that bosc's need to much or isit just that mice/ rats are too fatty to be used as a stable diet cheers

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hey there,

the above isnt good really, but you have tried - get him on here so he can ask himself???

my bosc has never liked crix, but loves locust - he will grab one and still chase the others - ive seen him with three in his mouth (winged adults) and mines only 20inches long or beardy size

mine basically has a staple of locusts and really in no order (but no more frequent than every 3 days) he gets meat of some kind - rodents, beef, turkey and the odd scrap off chicken bits (when i make a curry lol)

all supplemented - locusts with calcium and his meat with nutrobal

when i first got mine he was in the living room and had had a feed befor we picked him up so basically left him for a week and then started to introduce myself

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he has no internet access at his house and i barely speak to him now...

Mines 11 inch long and again shows no interest in insects but will leave him now for a good week as you did with yours and see if that helps....

He's had 2 fuzzies now... 1 tonight and last night ( tonight as i tried to scent locusts for him and he didnt want em so gave him the fuzzie instead )

lol

people say with reps atleast 3days settling in, so with my first feisty reptile friend i thought id let him know that it was his home

he is doing fine now and is tame enough (still hisses if you scare him)
if he was healthy when you got him, he will be fine for a week with no food

when i got mine the guy told me staple of dog food!!! he does have access to this now and again but is not to keen on it but as its more like a 70% - 30% insect to meat its easier to use mice anyway

anyway - once he knows his territory, anything that moves he will go for

i stay away from crix because they hide and low to the floor means possible gob full of substrate, locust just tend to mooch about and worst youll see is them on the ceiling of the viv lol

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cool.... well he's in a 3ft viv now but has an 8ft viv waiting

I feed my (adult) insects usually every other day. If I don't have the time (as he's an adult) it doesn't matter if I don't. He gets one rodent/quail approx every 10 days - deffo once a week when hoggie's fasting lol. Up to 1 year I fed him every day as much as he will eat as you can't really over-feed a growing monitor.

At about a year mine decided he didn't really like insects so I followed advice from the guys I trust on repticzone and just didn't give him any mice at all. He soon caught on

haha like it - yes mr bosc you will eat your insects!!!

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might try that then lol