I have to ask, what are you afraid of? If you read your post, its like you have a deadly fear of your monitor turning into a rubberband or something.



First off, if you just do the basics, your monitor will grow like a rocket, and strong and sturdy, only feeding on mice and no suppliments what so ever. Like a rocket and strong as heck.



That is proven many many times. The basics are a decent range of temps.



In your case, you could go hotter under the basking lite, and cooler ambient temps.



A GREAT temp range is 75F to 135F. Both ends are not fixed, so you can get a hotter or cooler on either end and still be fine.



About all your liting, it makes attaining what is important nearly impossible. That is, to much heat spread all over the cage makes cool hard to accomplish. Cool is equally as important as hot.



All your suppliment stuff is indeed odd. Its like you want to work hard and harder. With turkey crap mix. You indeed have to add all manner of stuff. With insects, you need to add a tiny bit. With rodents you do not need to add anything.



Its not the monitor that is causing you to add stuff, its you. Get rid of the turkey stuff and feed rodents(as a base) and you do not have to pinch or measure, or add anything. You will just have to keep making bigger cages, and buy or find bigger rodents.



Of course you can feed other items too, like birds, fish, anphibs, reptiles, anything whole. Not parts like turkey.



Being is you are feeding pinkies, you do not have some manner of fear of rodents. Also, if you throw in a handfull of pinkies, your nile will grow like a rocket and then you will need a handfull of fuzzies, then mice, then rats, then alligators or whatever they are eating in Fla.(snowy owl eggs) oh, I mean burrowing owl eggs.



Yea, eggs are good too.



Anyway, stop with all the cement, you do know thats all calicum is. KISS, keep it simple stupid. Then work on what really is needed. Feeding cleaning, feeding cleaning, making bigger cages, feeding cleaning cleaning feeding feeding

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