I sort of disagree with you on this.

First off, MBD is caused by very poor husbandry. And poor husbandry without question will not allow a monitor to reach its potential(whatever your talking about here, reproductice, size, etc)

So you cure the MDB, but that does not mean, you all of a sudden have good or superior husbandry. In fact, to cure MBD, you only have to meet the bare minimum of husbandry standards. Which is clearly a long long way from allowing full potential.

With that aside, I would like to hear from anyone whos had a monitor suffer MBD and then continue to a productive life.

I have only had a few causes in the thousands of monitors I have had. But I did manage to raise one up and have her produce a few good clutches. But sadly, she was never right.

Again, I would love to hear of others successes and failures.

I get the feeling that vets call it a cure if the animal lives. Not if the animals fills its potential(in any way). Such as growing to full size, or achieving normal reproduction.

To muck it up even more. I think its very very very rare for any monitor to REACH ITS FULL POTENTIAL in captivity, even with the best of keepers. Our husbandry is simply not very good. Cheers

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