Other pets (pics and discussions)

[Stefan-A]

Who says you can't have a pet dinosaur?

Nobody. Wrong class, though. If you want dinosaurs, you need to look for them in Aves, not Reptilia.

[Millinex]

He is offered a basking spot at 130 degrees F, he is kept in a reptile room maintained at 80 degrees, the heat from the basking lamps keeps the whole enclosure at 95+ most all day.

His water bowl is set up so that the lamps evaporate fair amount of it, and when I take him out to feed him, I spray everything down, like it just rained.

He does not eat mice, I will not feed an insectivore mice, He gets fed assorted arthropod based food, Cockroaches, crayfish, jumbo raw shrimp and night crawlers.

It's honestly been a huge debate among the varanid keepers regarding the feeding of mice. A lot of people believe these guys to be hugely insectivores, however, several of us offer rodents and chicks with no ill effects. Generally a varied diet is key with these animals, as in the wild, I highly doubt a sav would pass up a rodent, chick, snake, or any other small vertibrate.

-Mike

[infernalis]

Daniel Bennett went to the Savannas and did a complete dietary study on 200 wild Varanus exanthematicus and of 200 lizards studied, 199 of them displayed no evidence of consuming vertebrate prey.

[ConcinusMan]

I suppose he's also the one that said bullfrog tadpoles can bite into dead and living flesh? Is this the same guy that says infants can eat corn on the cob?

Now you know I'm just messing with you. Well if we can't have pet dinosaurs, we can sure come darn close.

[infernalis]

[Millinex]

Daniel Bennett went to the Savannas and did a complete dietary study on 200 wild Varanus exanthematicus and of 200 lizards studied, 199 of them displayed no evidence of consuming vertebrate prey.

Actually I strongly disagree with this, providing the proper heat/humidity and it has been shown rodents prove no ill effects on the animal. Not to mention the man who did the study is a frequent member over on varanus.nl, where he posts in this thread:
Varanus.nl forum / Info

Frankly I feed mine a mix, and he has no ill effects, low temps/bad humidity + high rodent diet and you're sure to be in for problems, however, if properly kept I highly doubt it's a big issue.

-Mike

[Stefan-A]

where he posts in this thread:
Varanus.nl forum / Info

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[Millinex]

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Registration is not bad, and it's well worth it, the amount of monitor knowledge there is very good, and a lot of the keepers are extremely experienced.

-Mike

[BLUESIRTALIS]

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My new eastern milk snake.

[guidofatherof5]

Good looking snake.