Croc keepers, STEP UP!
- Thread starter Lepisosteus platyrhincus
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where do you buy chicken gizzards/hearts? butcher shop?
grocery store didnt have any and i am curious if the guy at the butcher shop is going to look at me like "are you serious?" when i ask him for gizzards and hearts
grocery store didnt have any and i am curious if the guy at the butcher shop is going to look at me like "are you serious?" when i ask him for gizzards and hearts
he is now eating worms off of tweezers like a champ....but i think i should probably stop relating feeding time to my hands.....
Random question since this thread is perfect for what I am looking into.
On another site, some past croc owners said that no filter can handle crocs or caimans,etc.
It would be easier to do 100% water changes several times a week.
can anyone let me know if they just do several 100% water changes a week or if they have a filter and what it is set up like.
Thanks
On another site, some past croc owners said that no filter can handle crocs or caimans,etc.
It would be easier to do 100% water changes several times a week.
can anyone let me know if they just do several 100% water changes a week or if they have a filter and what it is set up like.
Thanks
komodo182;4649610; said:
some filtration is better than none but at some point you will have to do a water change, there is no getting around that. However, you can reduce the frequency of water changes depending on the type of filter you have.
DeadInTheBasement;4649338; said:where do you buy chicken gizzards/hearts? butcher shop?
grocery store didnt have any and i am curious if the guy at the butcher shop is going to look at me like "are you serious?" when i ask him for gizzards and hearts
Try a different grocery store. I occasionally feed my monitors these and I get it from the Publix across the street. I know Super Wal*marts have them too.
snakeguy101;4649687; said:
This is not coming from me, this is from someone on another site and this is what they state
"I've seen what comes out the butt end of a good sized caiman and/or a larger turtle and no mechanical section of an aquarium filter is going to help that....let alone the bio. It has to be physically removed. Then, until it is physically removed from either the water or the filter ( this applies to fish tanks also) it's still affecting water quality.
Then most reptiles are only fed 2 or 3 times a week, so you would have low bio-filter bacteria, so you would end up with a NH3 spike shortly there after.... a bio really couldn't the surge.
But as far as the critter is concerned it really doesn't matter...NH3 or NO2 at 3ppm forever would have no affect on a turtle or a caiman as long as the bacteria CFU's were kept low. .
I've seen turtles and caiman, by the dozens, sitting in water that was stagant and they couldn't care less. They'd stay there till the flesh rotted off them or they just get out of it.
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There is no need, in fact it's a waste of time, even if you're not doing daily water changes, to try and have nitrification taking place. "
This is me typing again, I think a lot of this info is false myself, but I have never owned a large aquatic reptile. can anyone who does comment on this?
yeah i would. Claudia still will not eat in front of me sadly. but she does eat like a champ. When she does start eatting in front of me, im gonna bell train her. That way when she hears a bell ring its food time. If the door opens but no bell then she gets no food.DeadInTheBasement;4649607; said:he is now eating worms off of tweezers like a champ....but i think i should probably stop relating feeding time to my hands.....
I get my gizzards at Walmart. $1.50 a pack. perdue brand i think.
Komodo, im running a simple sponge filter. those are nearly 100% bio and its handling her bioload like a champ. and she only poops in the water.
your gonna have to do a WC but a filter is better than no filter.
Lepisosteus platyrhincus;4649871; said:Komodo, im running a simple sponge filter. those are nearly 100% bio and its handling her bioload like a champ. and she only poops in the water.
your gonna have to do a WC but a filter is better than no filter.
I do not own any crocs or anything, would love to someday and it is good to know that filters can handle crocs, I do not know where the other people are getting their info.
