JC did well, but he did not keep Savs a long period. He also was out of context. Hes talking about breeding females, not mature males. He got rid of them or lost them before he could learn what the ramifications of fat males means.



I wish I could help, but I feel your sensitive to your monitors needs. And hunger is a real expressed need. The dang things are always hungry. That I understand.



Its far easier to prevent the fix. In order to fix your monitors condition, you flat have to torture it. or so it seems.



If you lower the temps, it will lower its need for food and not lose weight. You have to JUST NOT FEED IT FOR LONG PERIODs.



I know, I will be yelled at, But hey its FR, he does not care. Its very hard on me, but I have gone months without feeding males. They flat refuse to lose weight. Its against their biology.



The first consideration is, HEALTH, if its healthy it will not be a problem. If its not, its most likely dead.



I do understand its a tuff road and its a road thats hard on the keeper.



Like all other aspects of husbandry, its about making choices(you this time) Its not cut and dry. You may feed a few insects a week, my bet is, it will not lose weight on that. You have to keep an eye on him and error on the feeding side.



I say that because as they age, they tend to drop lots of fat. Old monitors lose the ability to store fat, or at least theres no more reason to store fat. Of course, thats not all of them in all conditions. Cheers

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