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For those of you remember about a month and a half to 2 months ago I was posting about how I couldn't get my male tx bairdi to eat for anything. I finally got him to eat one life pink scented with gecko substrate a month or so ago...and then i was just able to finally get ome gecko substrate again tonight and he ate again...but wouldnt touch the frozen/thawed one that was scented the same lying beside the live one. I'm just happy to get him eating something, then i'll worry about getting him on f/t.
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Current snakes:
0.1 Licorice Stick Black Rat (Lola)
1.0 Neonate Black Rat (het for Lic Stk's) (Frankie)
1.1 Texas Bairds (Jose and Rosa)
0.1 Blue Beauty (Brunhilde)

Good plan too, get him fed and established then move on to the transition. If you save that substrate you can reuse it. I'd keep it in a zip lock bag and I bet you could reuse it for several feedings.

I had mentioned in an earlier post that the substrate can be saved and reused. I've had the same substrate from a gecko cage for 4 months. It is in a deli cup, I put the pinkies in the deli cup for awhile and then feed the pinkies to my lyre snakes. One lyre was stubborn on eating unscented pinkies. The substrate seems to still be doing it's thing. After the feeding, I put the lid on the deli cup and place it on a shelf in the snake room until the next time I want to scent a pinkie. The other thing I think reusing the substrate will accomplish is that as the scent diminishes in the substrate it sort of weans them off scented.

Terry