Anoles and house geckos are commonly used as feeders for other herps, I used them to feed my asian vines and ornate flying snakes--the thing is, they were WC, and always are. Reason--anoles are too much of a pain for someone to captive raise to be feeders, especially when WC are so cheap. I gave panacur to my feeders 3 weeks prior to being fed to reduce (note the word reduce) parasite load. You could also freeze them I just couldn't find a humane way to euthanize 100 lizards that would allow them to be used as feeders and be somewhat humane (Carbon dioxide can be tricky with herps). Bottom line is though, unless the animal is a herp specialist, try to avoid using herps as feeders--they are expensive and carry parasites. Another route you could try is to CB your own, but the generation time with herps is significant, and very good population management would need to be employed to maintain a good supply of appropriately sized feeders. Third option, if you are trying to add variety to the diet of an animal; and you breed other herps, chances are eventually you will get B-grade offspring. With some Darwinian management you could add some variety to an animals' diet.

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