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Posted by FR on May 04, 2003 at 16:16:31:
In Reply to: Mangrove Monitors, will THEY eat feeder guppies/goldfish? posted by Mark_M on May 04, 2003 at 15:09:59:
Most healthy monitors will eat anything. To a point its totally silly. One adult male whitethroat last week decided that the spotlite was food, and gave it a strong effort.
Your concern is whether the food you feed them and it eats, will do them any good. Will it progress with the types of food you feed it and if so, how much. A Gauge of a diet is the growth, reproduction and longevity it supports. Not, will it eat it. Guppys and goldfish will be eaten by most any healthy monitor, but will not actually help the monitor progress? thats another question altogether.
Also some species may not know how to catch them, like a Sav in a goldfish bowl, now thats funny. Taking about out of place. Mangroves on the otherhand, know how to catch fish. Maybe feed some faster stronger fish, make it sport.
All in all, most larger monitors do the best on mice. Think about how many guppys it takes to make a mouse, the mouse is now much cheaper.
Don't get me wrong(most do) as long as mice is the base of a diet, you can add anything you like. Heck, I have fed our monitors all sorts of crap. If i find a dead snake(including rattlers) or rabbit, or catch scorpions or what have you. I have a pond and have throw fish in with all sorts of monitors.
But doing all that was fun for me. and Not for the health of the monitor. Please consider the health first.
For instance, feeding Lacies chicken eggs. I use to warm them up, not anymore. Just out of the fridge and into the cage. The Lacies gently pick them up, without cracking them, hold them high and down they go, never to be seen again. These monitors are savage on rodents and gentle with eggs, funny. F
