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31-Jan-07, 11:24 AM
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I know with young dragons you are not supposed to give them food that is longer than the gap between their eyes, but does a similar rule apply to young goannas?
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31-Jan-07, 11:28 AM
|  | Sponsor | Join Date: Jan-07 Location: Hawkesbury Gender:  | | | I think its all a lot of common sense.
I am cutting up rats and mice, as well as chickens, for a lace monitor. And every week, the pieces are getting BIGGER, so is he!!
Others will say to let them rip their prey to bits, it is a lot messier that way. 
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31-Jan-07, 11:28 AM
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31-Jan-07, 11:32 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | | | dont know any rules but they can eat farily big stuff, definately bigger than what i would feed to dragons.
I feed them rats a bit larger than their heads and they get them down easily. |
31-Jan-07, 12:29 PM
|  | Subscriber | | | | | i feed young monitors pinkie no bigger than the space between there sholders, other wise they have problems getting the pinkie all the way down. bigger animals just get mice following the same rule.
i see no reason to cut up rats and mice for any monitor they simply do it themselfs |
31-Jan-07, 12:32 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: melbourne australia Age: 45 | | | | the main thing to worry about,imo,is that whatever they eat has no substrate attached to it,
whole animals are probably better as they dont pick up the sand like animals that have been cut,eg,half a rat or a piece of chicken fillet.
i learned the hard way when i lost a young monitor to a gut impaction that was caused by sand stuck to meat.
he was dead before we got to the vet..
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31-Jan-07, 12:43 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Cairns | | | | I've got young ackies, they are being kept on paper at the moment.
They seem to be happy to go for crickets that are almost as big as their head and get them down easily. I'm just worried that it may cause a problem for them.
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31-Jan-07, 12:45 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: melbourne australia Age: 45 | | | | mags,if you worried take the back legs of them,the crix that is,
they can be quite hard to swallow as well as digest
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31-Jan-07, 12:58 PM
| | Subscriber | | | | | healthy hatchling ackies should have absolutly no problem eating or digesting crickets or pinkies even on a sand substrate, just make sure you keep there basking spot hot 55-65degrees |
31-Jan-07, 01:04 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-04 Gender: | | | | Hey Magpie,
I had a mate who had ackies and found both of them dead two weeks after he got them. I'm unsure of the exact age but they wre juveniles. His kids had fed them a heap of large crickets and after he paid for an autopsy he was told that the crickets were too big and as they had eaten so many it caused a blockage and they died. Apparently the crickets wree still in the gut and throat of the dead animals.
I don't now how true this but i suppose it's something to think about........
AND hey..Where are the pics?????
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31-Jan-07, 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Tristis  healthy hatchling ackies should have absolutly no problem eating or digesting crickets or pinkies even on a sand substrate, just make sure you keep there basking spot hot 55-65degrees | That's something i forgot to add. My little guy was always kept around 32 degrees ( as this was what i was told by people at the time ) and he was going great but after talking to Hugsta and seeing his flourish under an OzBright light bulb i gave him a try. Directly under the bulb it stays over 50 degrees and even on the hottest of Sydney days he will still lie under that bulb. i took a temp reading a couple of weeks ago when we had a 37 degree day and it read at being 63 degress and the little bugger was still sitting under his bulb. I must admit he was a great animal before i was obviously doing something very wrong and he is extremely active now.
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31-Jan-07, 01:11 PM
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31-Jan-07, 01:13 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Cairns | | | They've got a hot basking spot with a Compact max 5.0 with reflector for UV.
Very very active little fellas, watching them jump all over the cage for a moth is hilarious.
Unfortunately they're all sold and I don't have any more eggs from them 
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31-Jan-07, 01:14 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-04 Gender: | | | | Thansk a million Magpie, those photo's are great. They are top looking animals. Do they ever blew with each other????? I had to separate my two female Storr's monitors recently....i have a smaller one that keeps trying to grab the throat of the other one, vicious little women they are.
My ackie though is gorgeous but i'll admit not quite as attractive as yours.
Simone.
P.S. Thanks for the pics. |
31-Jan-07, 01:17 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Cairns | | | | They've shown no agression to each other, nor do my adults (1.2)
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