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If i was to find a healthy source of anoles, would they be readily taken by 2 month old yellowtail cribos?Are they even nutritionally worth it?Has anyone used them before? If I may can i ask what everyone else is feed[bleep] their hatchl[bleep]s?Thanks ahead of time.
Rayne

I've had success scenting frozen/thawed pinks with frozen/thawed goldfish. Leave in cage/hidebox overnight undisturbed.

it won't want anything else after a while. besides, feeding anoles to a hatchling is one thing, feeding them to a bigger animal would get ridiculous. try what steve suggested, it'll save you tons of aggravation later. good luck!

I dont have any experience in the feeding of yellow tailed cribos,but in keeping and breeding eastern indigo snakes,I have had to RESORT to useing anoles and fence lizards to get them started. Frankly,I didnt like it, although the snakes DID get started feeding, I was always rather put off by the poissible transmission of mites or internal parasites. Additionally, the snakes didnt gain any significant weight gain while on this diet of anoles. I TOTALLY agree with Deans comment that getting them started on ANYTHING is the most important thing, but switiching them off anoles a.s.a.p sems like a Very good idea. Again,I havent kept yellowtails, but with my Easterns I noticed that they didnt gain signifcant weight or grow signifcantly while on anoles or fence lizards. Hope this helps.

Take care,

Fred Albury

Young yellowtails can be tough.

If you can get him eating ANYTHING, feed it to him. (freeze first...they should take f/t as readily as live and you don't want to worry about parasites)

If he likes lizards...then try secnting a f/t pinky with lizard blood. Eventually, you'll get him over to unscented in this fashion.

I have produced eastern indigos, TX indigos and this year for the first time, yt's.

Like steve...I find eastern indigos take to fish or fish scented pinks...but yt's are another story. A few took pinks rigt away, but they were they exceptions.

Very few of mine have liked fish. I have a bunch going well now on chick-scented pinks (I smear some blood from a f/t chick and a couple feathers on a pink).

A couple more are eating snake-scented pinks.

Trouble is...one snake may take to one scent and refuse all others...and each baby can be different.

Things to try for scent manipulation:

- Fish of different types
- lizards
- snakes
- frogs
- chicks

Good luck.
and let us know what ends up working!

Dean

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