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My neighbor brought me this the other night,thought it might be a "mocassin"! Lol! Tried to get it to eat a f/t pinky with no luck till I scented it with five lined skink.The response was instant! Jeff

Skinks are magic! Congrats on a beautiful baby!
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Jorge Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com

Thanks Jorge! Too bad the hypo glades don't think so!! Lol!
Jeff

Jeff, did you already try anoles, or heavy anole scenting on your Glades?

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

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>>Jeff, did you already try anoles, or heavy anole scenting on your Glades?

Yeah I was gonna ask the same thing. As we both discussed once before, that would make perfect sense. Moles, and Kings and Corns are mainly ground dwellers, which means they would be better suited to find ground lizards, such as skinks. Everglades tend to be more arborial, and so might respond better to Anoles. Althogh I have yet to hatch a yellow or an Everglades that didn't take pinks right away? Except for those ones from the Kink Master, who produces all kinked babies.
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
Jorge Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com

Yep!, /what you said about the more fossorial snakes is spot-on about them many times having a preference for skinks.....And by the same token, Everglades are definitely renowned for having a taste for anoles and frogs as hatchlings in the wild, and this can often follow suit in many captive's as well...

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

serpentinespecialties.webs.com

No, I only used the skink because it was readily available!Anoles aren't native here and I would have to buy one when I was free from work.It all turned out for the best tho,I got most of them to eat by tease feeding!! Jeff

As long as you get them to eat. That is the ultimate goal. Once they start they never stop.
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
Jorge Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com

That's the coolest little mocassin I ever did see! Lucky they didn't just kill it. Mine would have. Congrats, that's really neato.
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Amy Claiborne

Don't let them take your wasted time. J.T.