Water monitor eating a pinkie rat
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This is my water monitor eating a rat pinkie his diet mainly consists of dubia roaches crickets etc with a weekly treat of 1-2 pinkie rats i prefer to avoid focusing on a mainly rat diet as that is unhealthy for monitors.
He's currently unnamed so any name suggestions are welcome!
I got this video for my boyfriend who is always either not here or feeding time or the monitor refuses to eat when he's here. Sorry for my mom interrupting the video she needed me to feed horses.
My monitor is handle able due to my using methods to get him used to people that DO NOT include forced handling (thats actually a good way to make them hate you or sick) i spent a lot of time with my hand sitting his tank so he's get used to me and my scent as well as tong feeding him roaches (which i'll get a video of eventually i promise) eventually he got curious about me and climbed onto me and that was basically all she wrote on that one. I still need to constantly reinforce what i taught him but most times now all i have to do is lay my hand flat in his tank and he's on it.
He's currently in a 40 gallon breeder grow up tank i have several more grow up tanks in my garage of various large sizes as well as a couple custom enclosures and i'm working on building a forever enclosure for him when he's bigger. anyways hope ya'll like my video!