Parasites can be a problem because the animal is in a severe compromised state. And worming them does often improve their condition temporarily.

The catch-22 is wormers are very bad in compromised animals, and healthy animals don't need them.

I do agree that dehydration is a big problem, but fixing that is kind of like fixing an oil pressure problem in a motor, it's better and incredibly important, but other damage has probably occurred because of the original condition. Unfortunately monitors can't be rebuilt like motors.

You will never see dehydration addressed like the shotgun'n of wormers in the reptile industry. The main reason is, dehydration takes a constant effort and alot aren't in a recoverable state, worming will often cause the animal to improve very quickly (albeit for a short period of time before they crash). So panacur the monitor, it looks better in a week, sell it, and move on to the next animal. There is obviously very few people who are willing to spend more money to get healthy animals. This industry is mostly supported by impulse buys. I don't like it anymore than anyone else, but we must remember most of us started with an impulse buy (or catch) when we were kids.

Oops, I guess that was more than one thing.

--Robert

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