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Has anyone ever used Lizard Maker to scent pinks for starting hatchling cornsnakes? Results? If it works, it would be simpler than getting anoles to start them. I've got just a couple that are don't want to feed...I'd rather try scenting before I go to assist feeding.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

DEW
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HAPPY

I haven't tried the lizard maker yet, but I did try the mouse maker on a pink to get a non-feeder going. It worked the first time. I don't know if it made the mouse more mousy or what, but the little guy had been refusing pinks for about a month and I had tried everything I could think of (live, brained, tuna water, gutted, washed, etc...) with the mouse maker the guy took a f/t pink within about 15 minutes of being in the feeding container.
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2.0 Anerythristic Corns
1.0 Sunglow Corn
3.4 Leopard Geckos
3.1 Crested Geckos
1.0 Peacock Day Gecko
0.1 Gold Dust Day Gecko
1.1 Giant Day Geckos
4.2 Cats

I've never had much success with the Lizard Maker products. To me, it has always been far easier to get the hardest ones to eat using lizard skin. It's tough on the Anoles, to be sure, but the little corns love their pinks wrapped in anole skins, when they won't take anything else at all!
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Darin Chappell
Hillbilly Herps
PO Box 254
Rogersville, MO 65742

Lizard Maker has not worked for me so far.

Traci

Not a lot in the way of ringing endorsements! I may try and find live anoles, or begin with assist feeding mouse tails.

Thanks for the responses.
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HAPPY

If you have easy access to skinks you'll probably have better luck, but I have found lizard maker to be useful too. I did get a corn to eat pinks with it and a co-worker finds the only way to get his adult ground boa to take mice is to use lizard maker on the mice.
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PHWyvern