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I'm planning on getting an iguana at the upcoming herp show that can share my diet. I'm wondering if there are any monitors though that have the same.

...the magic 8-ball says....

"not likely"

Cute.

No chance in hell.

yourself of meat is one thing, but depriving a monitor of it is just plain wrong. Thats not how its supposed to be, infact it might even be unhealthy to feed a monitor a 100% non-meat diet. Meats contain proteins that vegies just can't touch. Have you ever heard of a bodybuilder that eats no meat whatsoever? I haven't, infact they usually scarf down as many carbs, and proteins as they possibly can. Why? Because the protein is what makes organisms grow.

Vegies have soy protein, but they don't have weigh protein, and weigh protein is the muscle building formula. So if you decide to force your monitor into being a vegan (infact i think a monitor would rather let itself die then become a vegan, as would i, lol)
then youd be able to provide the carbs with things like rice, bread, noodles ect. But how will you provide the protein(weigh protein)? Protein shakes? Stick with the igunana. Igunanas have since evolved over long periods of time to survive with vegtables, monitors have not, plus i understand you are infact a vegan, and respect your ways, but why would you want to force those ways onto a monitor who loves the smell of thawed pinkies in the morning? Do you think thats fair?
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