.....You own 3 monitors and you've read Daniel Bennett's book and now you are arguing with more experienced people on monitor diets. With all due respect to daniel Bennett, I am familiar with his work on both savannah monitors (through his book.) and his work with gray's monitors. his study on their diet is limited. that said it is an excellent effort and gives interesting insight into these monitors.

I made a point about this earlier in some posts (a few months back.) with a parallel argument of personal observations over a long period of time of a coyote that seemed to subsist on bugs and a neighbors left over dog food.

It is one study of one group of lizards from one part of their range. According to the charts in his book btw they eat very few snails compared to the millipedes so based on that info you might not want to feed too many of those either. I don't recall seeing very much mention of other bugs besides millipedes. Based on part of your logic you should get to work on that millipede farm. fyi savannahs don't seem to like the native ones here in fl. so don't waste your time using them. You also have still not explained where savannahs find shrimp and crabs and crayfish on the african savannah. do they go to red lobster or something? You also never answered Franks question about brumation in an equatorial area where temps and daylight cycles are going to be about the same year round.

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