Feeding Monitors
Feeding a monitor can be done quite simply. Their diet consists of crickets, grasshoppers, meal worms, pinkey mice, and canned moniter food.
Crickets
Crickets are a very nutritious food and should be the most important food for your monitor's diet. When feeding them to your monitor be sure to dust them with a calicum supplement. Crickets are easy find at pet stores or though mail order or see Keeping and Breeding Crickets.
Grasshoppers
Grasshoppers are a really good food but are hard to find in pet stores but can be caught in the wild. It will also be fun to watch your monitor chase these around the cage.
Meal worms
Meal worms are not very nutritious food but offer somthing new for your monitor but be sure to dust them first. Meal worms are easy to find at most pet stores.
Mice
Mice are a good food To feed all size moniters. Pinkeys or new born mice are good for baby monitors. Mice come in all sizes ranging form pinky, fuzzys, adult mice, young rats and then full grown rats. Mice are a very healthy food and can be found in most pet stores, however you should NOT catch rodents in the wild because of the risk parasites and diseases. There are also the debate between the frozen and live mice. Live mice are good for people(sickos) who like to watch the prey eaten alive. but there is the chance that the live mice or rats could scratch your lizzard. Frozen mice can be kept for long periods of time in your freezer. The mice must be compleaty thawed out, also in the pet store by my house they stopped selling live pinkeys and the frozen ones are cheeper.
Canned Food
Canned food for moniters can be hard to find but is a good food source. Cat and Dog food can also be given to your moniter in small amounts because it is too fattning and they will become over weight and that causes many problems.
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