we are not trying to insult your intelligence on here but what I see is you are making a mountain out of molehills. there is nothing wrong with feeding bugs to monitors but the fact is you can feed them rodents (and other things as well) and have them do just fine. If you pay attention to them more you can certainly breed them as well.
I just read your post on your feeding of your bugs, your making everything way too difficult, which is fine if that's what your into, but sooner it will burn you out. You sound like some junior chemist with your bug diet, I throw whatever vegetables I find cheap out of a group of veggies I choose to use throw some laying mash in with them and also throw whatever vegetables are going bad in the fridge. I've done it that way for years everything I feed those bugs to thrives. I have a similar diet plan for my rodents that works the same.
If something dies on me I don't look at diet that's not where I went wrong. I look at my husbandry, that is where the problem is whether it is temps or humidity or cage size or keeping incompatible animals together. Your problem will almost always be there .
when people who are new come on here looking for help that is where the problem ALWAYS is. Anyway enough of this for now as I do have cage cleaning and feeding to do.

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