feeding zoomed canned monitor food.

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messiner

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i got a can from work and my waterdragon, Bruce, loves the stuff, eats right off a spoon. i noticed his poop is alot more liquidy, its usually more compact when i feed him bugs/occasional mice. so should i be not giving him the canned food only? should i altranate canned and live foods? he is acting fine and happy tho. and btw dont microwave the canned food on a paper plate (no can) it sparks and crackels:eek: i dont get why tho, no metal right?
 
Variety, variety, variety. I wouldn't feed him exclusively any one thing, but alternate everything you mentioned.

Possible schedule:
day 1 - crickets
day 2 - mealworms
day 3 - canned food
day 4 - a mouse
day 5 - vegetation
day 6 - raw egg?

and repeat...
 
You should feed it mostly whole foods(mice/bugs), they have trace minerals and stuff the canned food doesn't, and it provides exercise when he chases them down. I would use the canned as a treat.
 
This animal is an insectovore so feed it insects. Worms and crickets will do with the very occasional mouse. They dont normaly find canned food in the wild so I dont suggest it.
 
ok, so just do the canned stuff like once a week. ill stock up un bugs then, im gonna have to buy them in bulk i guess. 1000 lg crickets would only cost me like 20 bucks. oh and he wont touch greens or raw eggs. the canned stuff was basically an expierement to see if i could get him eating different things. i also give him the occasional roach, lizzard, or skink i find in the yard.

so anybody know why the food sparks like that when you microwave it?
 
OH NO. Never feed this animal anything that you find yourself. Feed it only store bought feeder animals. The wild stuff can have parasites that will transfer onto your animal and can make your reptile very sick.
 
Z Trip;689879; said:
OH NO. Never feed this animal anything that you find yourself. Feed it only store bought feeder animals. The wild stuff can have parasites that will transfer onto your animal and can make your reptile very sick.
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z trip, heres what i was told,
i asked a coworker ,who is knowledgeable about herps, about the possibility of parasites from feeding it lizzards. he said that if an anole or skink was harboring parasites they are in the digestive track or fecies so my lizzard would have to eat the feces of an infected lizzard to get them. this is what i remember of the conversation, there was prob more. and if my dragon just eats the lizzard it will be digested without a hitch. so i guess this doesnt make alot of sence but i only do it rarely so i didnt think about it twice. if there really is a risk i wont take it, no more backyard critters then.
 
hey messiner can we some more pics of bruce;)


got a love that dragon
 
messiner;689892; said:
z trip, heres what i was told,
i asked a coworker ,who is knowledgeable about herps, about the possibility of parasites from feeding it lizzards. he said that if an anole or skink was harboring parasites they are in the digestive track or fecies so my lizzard would have to eat the feces of an infected lizzard to get them. this is what i remember of the conversation, there was prob more. and if my dragon just eats the lizzard it will be digested without a hitch. so i guess this doesnt make alot of sence but i only do it rarely so i didnt think about it twice. if there really is a risk i wont take it, no more backyard critters then.
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Well, if you think about it, any parasites that live inside the anole or whatever will still get eaten by the WD, so there's still a risk. Parasites don't just "ride" through the digestove tract for fun; they get inside their host and live there. So unless you deworm every anole you use as a feeder, you WD is going to ingest whatever that lizard has inside it.

Now I'm just making a point here. While the chances of your WD ingesting parasites from his food items are very high, the danger of affecting your WD is actually fairly low, because guess what....most parasites are species-specific! Anole parasites that commonly dwell off U.S. anoles and swifts are going to find themselves out of their element inside the foreign systems of an agamid from Asia (say, like a water dragon?).

So in a nutshell, I wouldn't lose sleep over it. Now, if you were regularly feeding anoles and swifts to say, a collared lizard (a confirmed lizard-eater, btw)...then you may want to be concerned.
 
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