Baby Sav not eating

[SnowFoxx]

It's the strangest thing. Muirne hasn't eaten in two days. I've offered wax worms, meal worms, and a cricket. She just turns her head away from it. But...she is interested in movement and seems to want to chase, just not eat.

Her temps are fine, she's not acting any different than usual, I picked her up and played with her and she was curious and active. She's drinking just fine, too. Any ideas?

- Victoria :w

[asphyxia]

Have you tested for parasites? if not get a fectial exam

what is the temp...130 -150? in the basking area

Good Luck
Brian

[tabastifur]

This is one of the ways used to get baby sav's or any monitors to eat for that matter.

What you'll need.

1. 24 or so crickets.
2. A quarter tea spoon of multi-vitamin powder
3. An eyedropper.
4. A blender.
5. A tea spoon of canned cat or dog food.
6. A strong stomach(Very important. Hahaha)

And here's what to do...

1. Take the 50 crickets and put them into the blender.

2. Take the quarter tea-spoon of multi-vitamin powder, and add it to the un-blended crickets in the blender.

3. Take the tea spoon of canned cat or dog food and add it to the mix.

4. Push "Frappe!"

5. Blend untill it is a fine paste. There shouldn't be too many lumps.

6. Put it into the eye dropper.

What you'll need to do is get the little guys' jaw's open somehow, and squirt the stuff in. Do this once every 5 minutes or so untill you feel he/she is full.

This works well. Best of luck!

And do get the "poo" checked out as well. Just in case.

[depressor86]

could a baby sav take a baby chick?

[snakemann87]

No, an adult could but i dont see a reason to feed it a chick. Theres no nutritional value really and I read that live food(guessing it would be live), makes the sav harder to tame. Steeve_B or Dom would be able to help more.

[Steeve B]

most often the problem reside in humidity, peoples keep monitors with an open top tank, the environment becomes too dry, the monitor refuse to eat as they cant spare the energy needed to digest, if not rectified he will decline and ultimately die. That is if your temps are correct as you say, force feeding of monitors is not advised, the best course of action is to correct your husbandry, monitors are aggressive feeders by nature having one refuse food is a bad sing, fix your set up and ovoid handling him until he regains full feeding, if you need cover its tank, just remember to monitor heat inside your tank.
Kind regards

Ps. Remember babies are very susceptible to dehydration keep them moist but not wet, a bowl of water will not provide adequate humidity.