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Sweetie, I don't need advice about how to care for anything in my collection. Trust me. He's almost tripled in size since I started caring for him at the shop about five months ago.
My boss says our reptile supplier actually ages him closer to seven months. He's actually overweight. Baby's got fat rolls. At the shop, he was usually getting a mouse a day, sometimes up to three, plus at least a dozen crickets every day. Now that I've got him at home, he's on crickets every day, dusted with vitamin powder a couple times a week, and one mouse twice a week. And he gets earthworms when I buy 'em by the bucketful to feed out my chelodians, because he's usually relaxing on top of his enclosure when I feed out everyone else. Mealworms, waxworms, pheonix worms, and a bit of canned monitor/tegu food [once a month treat for the canned food, though].
Temperature in his enclosure is about 95-97 degrees fahrenheit at the basking spot during the day, closer to 85-90 at the bottom of the warm end, and 80-ish on the cool end. Nighttime temperatures for most of my collection is about 70-75, which is room temperature, just like he's been on at night since he was a hatchling.
Varanids are my specialty. Trust me, there's nothing small about my Zephie.
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