You have a normal coloration of a healthy monitor. If you are not achieving that with your normal diet, then your missing something. If it takes added stuff to your normal diet, then your normal diet is not sufficent. Change it.

We achieve great coloration with our monitors without adding anything. I guess I am lucky again. hahahahahahahahaha

Of course, you can add artifical color by adding different things, but I am not sure how healthy that is. I have heard Vitamin A overdose can occur(never seen it myself).

Of course, UNHEAlTHY monitors are drab. Healthy monitors show great color. My guess is, these area signs of where a keepers husbandry lies(at that time)

Old monitors lose their color, but is that the cart or the horse. Is it because they are old, or becoming unhealthy???? Is this normal or abnormal?

There is no question, hmmmmmm I have tested it many times, that you can take a beautiful colorful healthy monitor and treat it poorly and it WILL lose its color. On the exact same diet.

Does this occur in nature, my experience is yes, most sick or skinny monitors in nature are not colorful. In otherwords, a healthy monitor is vibrant and colorful(within its genetic ability) This is a captive goal.

The main point is, to make them colorful thru overdosing may not be a good idea. If it takes that, then why not just paint them?

Please understand, I am not saying Jobis were being overdosed or unhealthy, his monitors are not my concern. Its those keepers that may try to obtain color with the aid of vitamins and not normal health. Those keepers without needed experience.

With normal health there is no need for overdosing. Again, many vets WARN of beta-carotene overdose. Cheers

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