Quote Originally Posted by Lija View Post
anoles and lizard eating snakes are different story, i'm be doing the same when needed, lizards are being used for some picky kingsnake babies, with mountain kings being probably the most obnoxious. so you try pinkies for just hatched babies, but most are refusing, then you give them lizards to start them eating, eventually moving to lizard scented pinkies and then to nonscented pinkies and only when they are well established on nonscented f/t food you can sell them. that is general rule for snake breeders, you can get not established baby, but none of respectable breeders will sell such a baby to non pros with herps.
A secret to getting baby garters to eat is tadpoles. It's often the difference between a FTT baby and a baby that lives. Of course, all these have to be WC since you can't buy pinhead-sized tads at the petstore...

I didn't mean to compare the lizard-eating snakes (or snake-eating snakes for that matter!) to the feeder frog issue here. Just that you can usually tell when someone has collected a bunch of animals to sell as feeders without labeling them as such, whether they're frogs/toads, lizards, or even small snakes. I realize some snakes will only eat those things and take a good bit of work to get on an easier food source, and would probably not survive without eating those prey items for awhile.