Hi.
I'm not sure where you heard that pinkies have no nutritional value, but I dont believe that to be true.
Thousands of corn snakes and other smaller species thrive on a pinkie diet every year.
Pinks do have some bone structure and their stomachs are filled with milk (calcium). Larger mice would definately be preferred, but until your monitor is of a size to eat them, pinks and crickets shoud be fine. I have a baby peachthroat that I feed about 10 pinks to everyday, and it its growing nicely. My ackies are fed pinks occasionally and when they were small I would cut the pinks up, almost mince them, so they could eat.

All that to say, it had not been my experience with the species that I keep, that pinkies are lacking in enough nutrients to support growth until the monitor can be moved to bigger food items.
Besides the ackies I keep, all the other monitors get a primarily rodent diet with crickets as an option. I feed rodents everyday, but there are crickets in the cage all the time if the monitors want to chase something.

Mike W

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