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Ackie Hatchlings
In the wild they eat mostly insects, and also other lizards as they get older. Many monitors will also opportunistically feed on carrion, I would not be surprised if ackies would as well. My ackies are fed crickets daily, 2x a week the crickets are dusted with Miner-all and Herptivite. Occassionally (usually when I'm out of crickets) they get the San Diego Zoo's turkey diet or thawed pinkies. I try to stick mostly to crickets and pinkies, the turkey gives them loose smelly stools. They have a small area of the cage (on the cool side) that they use as a toilet, making it easy to scoop out their waste. I bought my trio from Weis Reptiles as juveniles. They are supposed to be the Western Giant strain. One of them surely is giant, nice and fat and 22.5 inches total length. The other two are much smaller, they are less chunky and only 14 inches total length. I know I have at least one male and one female as they have produced one fertile egg. Sadly I screwed up the incubation (or the egg was weak) and even though it had a fully formed lizard inside it never hatched. For more on ackie breeding click here. To learn more about ackies and monitor lizards in general go to Kingsnake.com's Monitor Forum. Be sure to search the board archives, as most of your questions have probably already been answered. |
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