Hi Gregg, not sure who your reply was directed at, but I`ll offer a response; you seem to be saying that varanids undermetabolised ( including too low temps), stop eating?
That`s absolutely NOT true!
They`ll take food even when their (core) body temps are below "normal" activity levels, and if they cannot use the energy supplied, what would you say happens to the excess over a period of time (other than obesity, which is a killer in itself because of the strain it puts on the vital organs)?
They (usually) do not aestivate/brumate in captivity.
But I think you`re quite right to suggest most of the untimely deaths are NOT due just to fatty liver disease... (Or to feeding some rodents, as is often said)!

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