How much should I feed my Ackie monitor?
Most owners will encourage you to let them eat as many feeders as they like within a 10 minute window. If your Ackie Monitor is still growing, dust their feeders with calcium 4-5 times per week. Dust their food with a vitamin 2 times a week, on days they don’t receive calcium.
What do you feed Ackie monitor?
Ackies monitors in captivity have been known to take a wide range of prey items, including: mice, crickets, hissing cockroaches, mealworms, Zoo Med’s canned food diets, snails, eggs (chicken, quail, and leopard gecko), and shrimp.
Do Ackie monitors need live food?
Ackies prefer live prey but can quickly adjust to eating dead or cooked food from tongs. Regardless of if you are using live or dead prey, it should be dusted with a vitamin and calcium supplement powder twice weekly. This helps to maintain your lizard’s bone health.
How many crickets do you feed a Ackie monitor?
When they are young they will eat every day until they are full grown (2 years old). When they are full grown you can feed them for five days out of the week instead of all seven. When I first got my Ackie, he was 6 months old and 12 inches long. He would eat about 8-10 crickets or roaches a day, initially.
What size tank do Ackie monitors need?
Ackie monitors may not be particularly large, but they are very active, so they need lots of space to thermoregulate and run around in order to stay healthy and fit. The enclosure that you choose should be no smaller than 5’L x 2.5’W x 4’H enclosure, including a 12-24” tall substrate dam.
Can Ackie monitors eat raw chicken?
My ackies, freckled & storrs monitors all get a mix of feeder insect (roach, locust, cricket, morio wormetc) & pinky’s, raw beef/chicken as well as prawn, smelt & occasional dog food, scrambled egg etc, variety is definitely what you should try to achieve. All monitors have UV & food is supplemented once a week.
Can Ackie monitors eat raw eggs?
Feed it to him raw or cook it e.g boiled eggs. I take an egg, smash it up shell and all, add a dash of calcium powder/vitamins, and microwave it for about 30 seconds. I let it cool to room temperature and break up any large bits before I feed it. I’ve seen other people give them hard boiled and I’m sure that works too.
What humidity do Ackie monitors need?
50-65%
Humidity. Ackie Monitors require a moderate amount of humidity in their environment. With such high temperatures, this can be a struggle, but regular spraying should be sufficient to keep it within the desired range of 50-65%. Humidity can be measured with an accurate digital hygrometer.
Does Ackie monitor Brumate?
Although ackie monitors don’t hibernate/brumate, their natural habitat does experience a regular period of reduced temperatures during winter.
Can Ackie monitors eat raw meat?
Can Ackie monitors eat egg?
Make sure to pay attention to usage instructions! Ackies eat primarily insects and smaller lizards. High-quality commercial insectivore diets can be good for variety. Eggs and whole bird/rodent prey can be used as an occasional treat.
Can Ackie monitors eat hornworms?
For this reason, ReptiFiles recommends lightly covering all invertebrate prey with a high-quality reptile calcium powder supplement (excepting isopods and hornworms, which are naturally high in calcium).