Hi masonmonitors,
I just wonder what`s "natural" about feeding crayfish, crabs and shrimps to a Savannah monitor?
I don`t understand you either when you seemed to be saying that keeping them active year-round is somehow unhealthy, because they may brumate for a few months in the wild?
As far as I`m aware, there`s absolutely NO evidence to suggest keeping any varanid species active all year is detrimental to their health (kept under optimum conditions)...
However, I DO regularly hear keepers whose animals die rather quickly, use that as an "excuse", just as they do feeding rodents; they haven`t evolved to be active year round, it will "burn them out"? And rodents will cause them to die from fatty liver etc. WHY???
I believe if they are fed much more food (energy) than they can use, and are kept undermetabolised, they could indeed suffer serious health problems, which is what`s happening thousands of times every year...

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