The only thing that works is a live lizard. I’m fortunate enough to live in area that is relatively close to several lizard species – side-blotched, tree, earless, plateau and spiny – which I go out and noose during the spring and fall months. I have all of these lizards in my freezer available for feeders or for scenting. For the past few years, I’ve used a method that works pretty well to get anywhere from 60-80% to hit a scented pink their first meal. Most that won’t take a scented pink will take a f/t lizard of one species or another (some may refuse one lizard species, but eagerly feed on another). The few that do not take a scented pink or a f/t lizard WILL take a live lizard their first meal. The second meal for these stubborn feeders will almost certainly be a f/t lizard, then they move on to scented pinks, then finally pinks.



Sometimes, all that a wc alterna (or milk snake) will eat for their first meal in captivity is a lizard – and I’ve never had one refuse a f/t lizard. Then, it’s a fairly quick process of moving them off lizards to domesticated mice. It’s a labor of love really...lol.



Robert

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