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First try with a skink. I'm going to try the female later tonight. Thanks Mark for some killer snakes.

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Gerard
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GONE FISHING!!!

Just kidding, lol. I hope you have more. You probably could have just scented the a pink? Anyway congrats!
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
Jorge Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com

Thanks, I'm going to feed them lizards for awhile. It easier than feeding them pinks.
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Gerard
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GONE FISHING!!!

Ah, to be young again and able to move fast enough to catch a skink!!!! Good looking little Mole King!?!?!
Pat

That's great Gerard. Maybe the long car ride would have helped the OBX if I had put in in the box as well..LOL!

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

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Yeah, don't worry dude. We will get it together.
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Gerard
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GONE FISHING!!!

Snakes love skinks! One of my yearling pyros didn't want to eat much this spring but I fed her a blue tail skink and she was on that skink like flies on the the proverbial sh*t! Since then she has had a great appetite. It's like the skink stimulated her feeding response long term. Skinks work even better than fence lizards, but are harder to find. I actually have a skink living with my fence lizards, but it is too big to feed to baby snakes.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

No kidding, I haven't had a snake that didn't like skinks. They are like candy to them.
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Gerard
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GONE FISHING!!!

Years ago, that was the only thing I could get picky Scarlet Kings to eat, and this year some hold out Miami Corns, attacked the pinks scented with Skink!
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
Jorge Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com

You know, since I do have that one big skink maybe I should scent the pinks with it. How would I do this without injuring the skink? It seems just rubbing the skink on the pinkies would not transfer much scent. I like my skink and don't want to hurt it.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

I just put a big skink in a deli cup with a bunch of brown anoles and let them run around with each other for awhile. That seems to work. Also, I heard today that the skinks saliva works really well too.
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Gerard
www.livebaitclip.com

GONE FISHING!!!

I think I will put my skink in a deli cup with a bunch of pinkies and see if that works.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

That will work. You should wash the pinky smell off first. I take the skink, and if it poops on me when I pick it up, just smear that on the pinks. If it doesn't a little push on it's abdomen usually does the job.
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
Jorge Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com

Thanks for the tips! Tomorrow I will find my skink in the big lizard tub. He is a shy guy and usually well hidden.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

What has worked for me in many scenting attempts with different foods, is using the saliva of the scent animal. Hold the skink and he'll likely bite a pink but you might need to get a generous swab on the pinky.
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

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Yeah, the female ate two brown anoles that I put skink saliva on. I let the skink bite me then I rubbed the spit on the anoles. They were small and I thought the skink would crush them. It worked though. Thanks for the advice.

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Gerard
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GONE FISHING!!!

Well, my skink probably would have bitten me, or bitten some pinkies (to get saliva on the pinks)but I could not find him in the big lizard cage. He is in there somewhere but I was reluctant to dig up the soil looking for him.

I have noticed a curious thing with the baby pyros. The first one to have a second shed now eats pinks no problem. I have another baby that is in her second blue cycle and am looking forward to seeing if she too eats more readily after she sheds. I suspect that after two shed cycles they are more interested in feeding; have five babies to go on this theory.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

That's interesting. Good luck with them!
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Gerard
www.livebaitclip.com

GONE FISHING!!!

Yeah, it's getting them to spit that's a [bleep]!!!! The only lizard I've seen taken with more Gusto is an Uta stansburiana!!!! My Lyresnakes, Glossys, and Longnose used to jump them right now!!!!

Pat