This is exactly what I am saying, your inexperience is being addressed. And your spending extra money for nothing, other then to make you feel good.

I think that is wrong, your feeling good because you HOPE that product is better. The truth is, its not.

I ask, how do you measure what is a better food, what is better for the monitor? what does fortified mean? or more nutritious? You see, you have no ruler to measure what that means to a monitor. Except the progress of the monitor.

So, if I feed less nutritious foods and by your standard I do, and my monitors outperform yours, what food is ACTUALLY more nutritious?????

To make a point, how long have you had that monitor? what are the results. A healthy normal sav can and does grow around five inches a month. In fact, more is really supported. In fact, most monitor species grow that. And that is without fortified or nutritious foods. So how does yours compare?

I would understand if your monitor grew(measure of progress) three inches a month and you added gutloading and it increased that to five inches a month. That would show an improvement and may be worth the extra cost. But to make you feel better is kinda selfish.

My suggestion would be, take that extra money and buy more less nutritious foods, or a bigger cage. Something that will actually benefit the animals. Then you can go have a beer and be proud of how well your monitor is doing.

Remember, I have and am now, raising lots and lots of monitors. As I read these types of posts, my little fellas grow up. Yet, those who post these types of posts, never seem to have their monitors last very long. This is the sad part. You/s seem to be concerned and caring, yet, your caring does little to actually benefit the monitor. My hope is, you will think and then decide to actually learn what WILL benefit your monitor, and practice that new learned husbandry.

Its not that gutloading is a bad thing, its merely something thats not needed and could be replaced with something that is needed. Both in time and money spent. Cheers

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