Please try and understand this, 99% of what you read on these forums is not how to keep a healthy monitor that can and does progress through normal life events(grow up and reproduce, in a normal fashion, and life a long life)



The information your reading is based on how to keep a chronically sick animal. Your care is READS like a cure for a horribly sick animal. UV bulbs, lots of calicum, tons of vitamins, etc etc.



Most people here(they cannot be considered keepers as they fail at that) are not doing what supports normal health and indeed are keeping chronically sick animals. So its hard to argue with them as if you do not do all the JUNK your doing, their animals would drop dead.



What is key to understand is, monitors are EASY and do not need or should have, all the junk your doing to prevent some sickness that should not occur and is so easily avoidable.



You do not need or have no need for UV bulbs, they are worthless to a normal healthy monitor. For monitors that can and do consume rodents, you do not need or should not have to use any suppliments at all.



Your task as a keeper is to support your animal in a way it does not need to be medicated its entire life. What your doing is exactly that.





The larger albig is about two months older then its sibling. The larger one is from a first clutch the smaller one the second clutch. It was raised on mice and no UV what so ever, an incandesent bulb.







These are all babies that were hatched here, their parents were also hatched here and so was their parents, and none of them have UV bulbs or vitamins and calcium. Generations of beautiful healthy monitors, without the stuff you think you have to do.



Now please compare this to the results of these using all the stuff you are adding. They are what, attempting to keep their monitor alive. Do you see how work that is?

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