Monitor Refuses To Grow/Put On Weight

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armaggedonx

armaggedonx

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I've had my nile monitor for about a year now and he has barely grown atall everything ive read about them say they grow rapid fast when young, my guy is 2 years old and approx 14 inches.

All his vivarium and heat bulbs, swimming area etc are fine and what they should be.

He gets his locusts dusted in calcium powder and some mixed in with his cat food.

He eats catfood, locusts, crickets, mealworms, pinkies, fuzzies and dubai cockroaches.

When ive got his harness on I sometimes take him into the garden to bask but I overheard a conversation at the shop with someone with theyre tortoise and the owner said to get the tortoise wormed every year if he's getting a run about the garden, could this be it?

I'm not worried exactly, just want to know that he is ok.

Cheers,
Keith
 
First I would avoid using a leash and insted you should build him a outdoor sunning cage. Next NO cat food, that can kill your lizard. Your going to dust every food item with a multivitamin calcium powder like zoomed´s reptivite and you are going to make shure all of the bugs are well fed. Next you can also ad small fish and big snails to its diet. What is the basking temperature? Its the water heated? And your going to feed him at will. He doesant need to be wormed. By the way hope you have a monster cage on the build...
 
I have a savanna that did that too. I fed it three times a week on a healthy diet and it just would not grow. One day it just started growing again but for being three years old, he is still tiny although he has started to grow more quickly in the last few months. I think it is just what some monitors do. Maybe they have an overactive metabolism or something but I don't think you need to worry about it....
 
can you guesstimate? is it above 100ºF is it between 90º and 100º is it lower?
 
How often do you feed it? I know they have high metabolisms. You should basically be offering it food every day when it's that young.
 
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