You mentioned you fed it first. Did you feed it, or did you chum the waters? Heres the thing. You think you gave your monitor a meal, yet its actions are suggesting you did not. If you fed it until it was full, then you could put pinkies in there and it would not eat them.

Monitors are survivalists. When they are straving, they are not picky, they will eat anything to survive. When they are well fed, they can be very picky, and its here that you taste terrible. If they are starving, they don't care what you taste like. You are merely a source of food for a starving animal. Its well known that starving predators will consume non normal prey items when starving/sick/injured.

When your monitor exhibits starving type behaviors, then most likely its starving.

Nest time, let the monitor eat its fill, then put your hand in there and see what happens. Then you can work to a happy medium for both of you. Cheers

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