Feeding Snails To Water Dragons

Feeding Snails To Water Dragons

Postby MTK » Sun May 10, 2009 12:56 pm

Is it possible to feed Chinese Water Dragons garden snails?
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Re: Feeding Snails To Water Dragons

Postby Leos r gr8 » Sun May 10, 2009 3:52 pm

I don't think its a good idea. I don't know much about water dragons but I know that snaills can carry a lot of nasty things.
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Re: Feeding Snails To Water Dragons

Postby Buck Rogers » Sun May 10, 2009 5:07 pm

I often fed my bosc's snails (maybe one a week) and we have had tortioses while growing up that ate snails, but there is no need to feed them snails, they do have nutritional benefits but the risk of parasites and poisons are not worth it! Rather get them on hissing roaches, double the nutritional value and more safe to feed.
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Re: Feeding Snails To Water Dragons

Postby MTK » Sun May 10, 2009 5:18 pm

Thanks for the reply guys. I don’t want to take a chance then, maybe I will feed them to the Savannah Monitor. We have just started a breeding colony of Hissing roaches which have produced two batches, but they are still to small at the mo.
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