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I wanted to try and scent small pinkies to feed recently hatched eastern hognoses who aren't interested in rodents. However, I cannot seem to find a frog scent product out there. What are some brand names and where should I be looking? Thanks.

I had a newborn eastern hog many years ago that I started on frog scented f/t pinks and after about a half dozen of these, it was eating unscented pinks. Your best bet is to acquire a smaller bull or leopard frog and freeze it in a plastic bag. To scent the pinks, just let the bag set out at room temp. for 10 minutes or so, just enough for the surface slim to thaw. Rub the pink in that surface slim and put the frog back in the freezer. Used like this, one frog will last for a year. I don't know of any other way of frog scenting a feeder artificially.

I kept a couple of toads for several months when I first had my female hog- they are very easy to keep.

I would rinse the pinkie (live) in warm soap and water, then put the pinkie in a small brown bag with a live toad, and jiggle it around so the pinkie got rubbed on the toad pretty well...

For awhile I also would then take the pinkie and rub it in a some skink guts- I have a long-dead skink in a baggie in the freezer, just warm it up enough to get slimy, rub the pinkie in, yummy for hognoses!

After 4 months she I tried unscented and she just started started eating them.

Did you produce those?
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Louis Kirkland
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Thanks, they're lots of fun- the larger boy I bought a little over a year ago in a local herp shop, no provenance or info with it...

The girl I got early last year, from Northwinds, she's always been healthy and feisty, she was slow to put on weight the first months with all the scenting etc, but lately she's been eating live mouse fuzzy/newborn rat pups with gusto- although just to be a contrary hog she did skip her last meal!

But she's been putting on weight well, and she is the funniest and most fun snake for little kids because she is full of bluster, hissing and flaring and fake striking- one day she even did the "play dead" trick, LOL CB westerns don't seem to do that very often!

I love the hog's keeled scales and they shed very cool skins with complete patterns etc...

She's way too small to breed this year, hopefully now that she's chowing down she will gain fast...

Hello-

I recently aquired a hatchling tricolor Hognose. I am having feeding problems, so I searched the web for a product from T-Rex called Lizard Maker, it is supposed to very effective, but is no longer produced. I have 3 bottles coming to me, I found it on Auctions, and very small not well known websites. One of them was "underground reptiles" they are very nice-I do not know how much they have left, but it is worth a try.

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