Feeding Nile

Solid Snake · 12-10-03, 08:11 PM

I was wondering can i stick to pinkie mice and occassionally the crickets and silk worms?

V.hb · 12-10-03, 09:35 PM

not advisable.. crickets and superworms should be your niles staple diet..
edited to add, as a juvinile.... as an adult, rats.

Solid Snake · 12-12-03, 06:03 PM

whats wrong with just pinkies?

V.hb · 12-12-03, 08:08 PM

no nutrition in them? Pinkies should be a once a week "treat" Staple diet of pinkies wont do anything for your monitor but cause problems..

C.m.pyrrhus · 12-12-03, 08:22 PM

Your nile should be on a bigger staple diet of inverts. This will increase excercise and less fatty diets. a 'treat' once a week is no big deal, but remeber your lizard naturally would be eating a diet of inverts, with other supplemented foods such as eggs, birds, small mammals, etc....

varanuskomodoen · 12-13-03, 01:01 PM

Scrambled eggs and roaches are good treats too.

varanuskomodoen · 12-13-03, 01:02 PM

What the Hell, bake a CAkE for your monitor!!!!

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burmer · 12-13-03, 01:34 PM

When mine was small I gave two pinkies a week. For the most part I gave a variety of crickets and superworms along with ground turkey and scrambled eggs. Also for a treat you can give some fresh water shrimp.

varanuskomodoen · 12-13-03, 02:06 PM

yea, that too

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rustysdragons · 12-28-03, 10:04 AM

Our Nile (5.5 ft female)has recentle eaten:
Turkey,
Chicken livers
Hamhocks (ground up)
Rats
Marrow (from hamhocks)
Eggs
Hissing roaches
crickets
Mealworms

I think that has been the december menu.
They will eat a large variety of foods, you just want to make sure that your staple diet (IE Mice pinkies vs rats) are a healthy food and nutritional source.
thanks
Rusty