First, many here think Bluerosy and do everything alike, we don't, but we do things with the participation of the animals. That is, we both respond to the animals, not just control them. So we learned many of the same things.
I feed lots of small meals, daily, he feeds large meals often. In the last couple of years, we have been testing information gained from keeping varanids, like always having food in the cage. The result is, males tend to eat small meals more often and females tend to eat a whole lot at once. The result, both grow like heck.
Keeping them in groups does indeed work well and if we neglect them, and hold back food, for whatever reason, they never eat eachother. Again, we have the same results. We both just throw food in the cage and see no problems, even when its not enough food.
Why bluerosy says things about type of person is, we really do not understand why folks are simply afraid to try stuff.
He mentioned personality traits, I often mention control issues, but seriously, those are only guesses as we cannot figure out why folks are so fearful.
My best up to date guess is, theres to much competition, When Rainier and I were young, everyone failed, so failing was not a problem, we were free to experiment. Now, if your fail, your a turd or something, It seems people are afraid to have fun and think and play. This is suppose to be fun, and following instructions to the tee, never seemed fun and it will never give you the joy of discovery.
There is one key to this, when folks are screaming, you can't, you can't, you can't. And someone, anyone does it. You really need to question the ones screaming, you can't. As they are the ones who are limiting the scope of knowledge. Best wishes

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