Hi Harvey,

I think the point that Frank was making was that vets have no experience dealing with healthy varanids, so most of them, unless they are varanophiles themselves, have no clue how to properly treat them. They base failing treatments on previous failing animals that they have cared for. Antibiotics and de-worming drugs are prescribed, when all these animals need are good conditions (access to high temps, appropriate humidity, whole foods and security) and they will heal themselves. The varanid pet trade is essentially an on-going cycle of failure, for the most part anyway.

Will

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