Before anyone can recomend something, you really need to say what your thinking about getting, it does make a difference.

Also, the advantage of crickets is you can leave them in the cage and small or young monitors can feed when ever they want.

i have raised thousands of baby varanids of many many species and I have never had a cricket naw on a tail or anywhere else.

I have kept and bred some of the very smallest species and they never had a problem either.

Before I can recomend a diet, the species would be helpful.

Also I do not understand the A to Z thing. I mostly feed mice to larger species, rats rabbits too. But I have nothing against tossing a road killed anything, once in a while, or oddball insects. It can be fun.

My friend gave his ackies palo verde beatles and those things are nasty big, We had fun watching and the monitors seem to have fun killing that nasty bug.

The key is, BASE diet. And the details of the diet are also based on your goals, expectations, caging, and of course species.

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