Monitors & Tegu's

[tommyjacobs]

Originally Posted by Dextersdad

Nope.

Clue's in my sig mate

oh didnt see that wow is that one of them remote control sub type things?

[hubert_cumberdale]

[monitor mad]

Originally Posted by hubert_cumberdale

lovley looking healthy bosc there

[Ian.g]

Originally Posted by Dextersdad

Good news, but try to get it heavily on the bugs (even though it's not too interested) as too many rodents will end up being very bad for a Bosc.

cheers, but i have been reading this article

Michael Balsai on the Savannah Monitor Diet

and speaking to quite a few long term keepers i know of...and it seems that if fed SENSIBLY a rodent based diet is not as bad as people may think, obviously as long as she will keep chasing locusts/crix... etc i will keep giving them for the excersize aspect more than anything, but i do believe that in all honesty...as long as you really watch their intake and weight, and also encourage excersize i.e time out of viv and shallow baths etc..it is not such a bad diet really, as it contains all the goodness and calcium they need, i also fed my last one on lots of other various things like whole eggs (would spend AGES trying to crack them open lol) and snails etc..

[Dextersdad]

Originally Posted by tommyjacobs

oh didnt see that wow is that one of them remote control sub type things?

Aye, that it is fella.

Originally Posted by hubert_cumberdale

Very nice.

[tommyjacobs]

Originally Posted by hubert_cumberdale

nice to see its not just us men who like the larger lizards

[Dextersdad]

Originally Posted by Ian.g

cheers, but i have been reading this article

Michael Balsai on the Savannah Monitor Diet

and speaking to quite a few long term keepers i know of...and it seems that if fed SENSIBLY a rodent based diet is not as bad as people may think, obviously as long as she will keep chasing locusts/crix... etc i will keep giving them for the excersize aspect more than anything, but i do believe that in all honesty...as long as you really watch their intake and weight, and also encourage excersize i.e time out of viv and shallow baths etc..it is not such a bad diet really, as it contains all the goodness and calcium they need, i also fed my last one on lots of other various things like whole eggs (would spend AGES trying to crack them open lol) and snails etc..

Rodents are good in a diet, don't get me wrong but I have seen with my own eyes what rodent diet alone can do to a Bosc. It's not nice at all. The only thing worse than this is a chick based diet.

Boscs aren't geared up to eat so many rodents although a balanced diet with rodents in is a god idea IMO.

[Ian.g]

Originally Posted by Dextersdad

Rodents are good in a diet, don't get me wrong but I have seen with my own eyes what rodent diet alone can do to a Bosc. It's not nice at all. The only thing worse than this is a chick based diet.

Boscs aren't geared up to eat so many rodents although a balanced diet with rodents in is a god idea IMO.

the only side effects i have seen myself is severe obesity...but that is when they are fed solely rodents and seriously overfed them as well, at the end of the day...IF people remember that they dont NEED 2 mice a day etc, and as we said incorperate other foods into this and watch their intake i cant see a problem personaly...but as you say its down to opinion.

[hubert_cumberdale]

Originally Posted by monitor mad

lovley looking healthy bosc there

Thanx! although prob not the best pic as shedding lol.
He is just non stop growing (as a healthy bosc should do!)

[sean k]

your bosc is looking really cool lol