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does anyone now of a lizard that eats rodents.

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Re: lizard that eats mice

Are you meaning as a staple or what? There are tegus and monitors they eat rodents. Most lizards will eat a small pinkie depending on size. "IT" depends on what you're wanting.
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Re: lizard that eats mice

I can't particularly think of any that ought to be fed exclusively on rodents, but as mentioned, monitors and tegus can eat adult mice. It really depends on what you're looking for and why. Monitor care is not something you can walk into on a whim simply because you want a mouse-eater.
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Re: lizard that eats mice

Water Dragons get big enough to eat adult mice though not as a staple. You can make up about 30% of it's diet in mice. There are all kinds of lizards that will eat pinkies as part of their diets. The trick is to vary the diet as much as possible.

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Re: lizard that eats mice

Is there a particular reason that you want a lizard that eats mice?
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Re: lizard that eats mice

i breed mice and have a lot of them so it would be easy to have a lizaard that just ate mice

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Re: lizard that eats mice

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i breed mice and have a lot of them so it would be easy to have a lizard that just ate mice
In that case get a snake There really aren't any captive species of lizard I can think of that feed exclusively on rodents. They need more variety in their diets to be healthy.

Snakes like rat snakes, ball pythons, and corn snakes are not as versatile and specialize in rodents and other small mammals, which is why a diet of mice suits them well.
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Re: lizard that eats mice

i might want to breed my female corn snake she is between 3 feet 6 inches and 4 feet. she is an amel corn.

 


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