"your spending extra money for nothing, other then to make you feel good."

Crickets need to eat too, and if I was worried about that extra dollar or two that calcium fortified cricket food costs, I should not have a monitor at all


"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."

He is healthy, growing, and eating well, that's all I need

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

I never judged you or your feed, I don't even know you

"To make a point, how long have you had that monitor?"

Chomper is monitor number 2, Barney was 5 and a half when he was killed, absolutely nothing to do with husbandry, he was murdered. it took 2 years to get over that loss before chompie entered the picture here.

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?

Chomper is progressing normally, thank you


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.

is it selfish if some folks buy expensive dog food for fido, and others use ol' Roy from wally world? Am I selfish because I like fillet while others eat burgers?

My suggestion would be, take that extra money and buy more less nutritious foods, or a bigger cage.

Our animals are housed better than most, I build cages, and enjoy woodworking, we have 3000 square feet to work with, 40 acres of forest and a friend with a saw mill, Chomper is currently living large and always will, thanks

"Then you can go have a beer and be proud of how well your monitor is doing."

I don't drink, it dulls the senses, rots the liver and causes more divorces and family abuse than any other vice, and drunks have no business raising reptiles.

"Remember, I have and am now, raising lots and lots of monitors."

Great, That's a good thing, at least we know that they will be better off with you than most, you can parlay that experience in a far more effective manner by sprinkling in a dash of diplomacy, be happy that folks ask questions, thats how they will learn.

I applaud you for caring about the monitors, and I always love to talk critters with anyone who will listen, after all, I did not judge your grammatical or spelling skills....

I'm going to stop ranting now, Judging total strangers whom you know nothing about speaks for itself.

Regards,
Wayne A. Harvey
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