The point Frank is making overall is this:



A monitor can and will THRIVE on a diet of nothing but whole rodent prey. Anytime you deviate from that, you are giving the monitor something less than optimal. Some people feed their monitors nothing but roaches or other insects. A monitor can survive on this diet, but he will have to be given lots of supplements to make up for what the roach diet is lacking (calcium for example). Feeding insects to a monitor really shouldn't be for anything more than giving them something to chase around, for exercise, and should be in addition to a proper portion of whole rodent.



I don't think he is saying that your shrimp is bad for the monitor. If you want to give him shrimp as a "treat" then that is fine. Understand that your monitor doesn't need a treat though. To him, food is food. It's your job to make sure that food contains what he needs to thrive.

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