Hi, I think that gets worded a little wrong. Or a little confusing.



A rodent diet has proved to produce the best results and it the most RELIABLE diet so far. Anything else actually takes away from that.



Of course I too feed other items once in a while, just for the heck of it.



ALso Daniels study, was short term, narrow focus of time, and prejudiced. Prejudiced in that he did not look at other places, different times of the year and at different stages of life.



For instance the key to a successful diet is NOT day to day, but how that diet supports the periods of need, like growth, reproduction, and regain energy after reproduction.



If your keeping a monitor static, that is, its not doing any of those, then a rich diet like rodents is not REQUIRED.



Also, in field studies, they never related stomach contents(diet) to task. Much of the time in nature feeding is merely to get the monitor to the next day(subsistance) As in, the diet is not strong enough to allow rapid growth, reproduction etc. Whats more important in nature is what did they feed on to grow quickly, or produce fat bodies enough to reproduce, or to recondition themselves are drought(lack of food) or other energy stressful events. Thanks

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