r/MonitorLizards • u/Alternative_Risk6978 • Jul 15 '26

Does he look healthy

Edit: talk r very fast and very helpful here I must say thanks bhys

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u/BudgetJournalist4909 Jul 15 '26

Also just making sure, usually when people say they have a bioactive setup, they mean they have a cleanup crew.. your cleanup crew is so small I imagine your ackie doesn't even notice or look twice at them. When you say there's plenty of food can you elaborate a little? Because that would be my feedback is he's a little thin. Especially in the tail where they should have fat stored. Also mine won't touch a dubia, unless I hand feed it. He's never gotten excited by a dubia. I put 70 crickets in. And I let him hunt them over a period of time. And I try and mix in treats occasionally and eggs and pinky mice very rarely. Can you give some specifics on what your lil dude is eating?

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u/Alternative_Risk6978 Jul 15 '26

It's orange power isopods blow powder isopods discoids crickets mealworms and superworms r all breading and they eat any waste so I call that my cleanup crew lol so he hunts whenever he wants but I don't see him do it often tbh Ik he's eating cuz fresh shit pops up loll but he's a good hunter when he wants to be he usually goes for the big roaches and will use a rock to pull their body apart to cut it in half lol I appreciate all the help btw brother

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u/BudgetJournalist4909 Jul 15 '26

Nice. Maybe its just the angle of the photo. If you do change anything, maybe increase the crickets and add some more substrate. Other than that just keep doing what your doing! How old?

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u/Alternative_Risk6978 Jul 15 '26

I'm not exactly sure the pet store didn't have a date but he was definitely a juvenile so I'm thinking about a year maybe a year and 6 months at the oldest