As much as I wanted to stay clear for fear of another train wreck, I see where this is turning all confusing. PLEASE correct me if I got this wrong.

for a MONITOR crickets provide more usefulness in exercise value, preventing obesity by chasing bugs, be it crickets or roaches. The REAL nutritional value is the rodents, so why worry about fancy cricket feed when dealing with MONITORS.

The care of GREEN lizards, primarily Iguanas and Anoles in a strictly indoor environment does warrant UVB and calcium foods, but Green species are not monitors.

Husbandry for other animals does not apply 100 per cent to monitors. not even close, keeping clean cages and water is about it.

So the bottom line is MONITORS that are fed properly do not NEED anything special added to their insects. Just lively fast bugs to keep them fit by chasing them.

Where I got derailed was that I feed the same crickets to several different species of animals, so I will most likely use the same feed, but for monitors, a bug is a bug as long as it runs..............

In a nutshell, is that about right?

BTW are night crawlers OK? chomper loves whipping them around, and they are chock full of protein.

Peace,
Wayne A. Harvey

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