Rhac Scenting?

Anyone have experience with having to sent food for certain species of snakes.
From what I have read many people use anoles to sent.

arboreal snake. arboreal lizard eater.

ie. anoles scent

has anyone tried scenting rodent prey items with rhac scent. Just curious. seance I am very interested in a certain picky eater and I have rhacs just sitting around. mine as well have a second function if need be.

I know if they are CBB and started on pinkies they are usually well off, but have read a few stories, I think mostly of imports.

The species I am interested in are Candoia.

I know the old stand by ..TUNA

just wandered about arboreal geckos.(scent).

Seamus had luck with KFC chicken skin. Seriously.

Sorry, I'm not familiar with Rhac, but my captive born and wild caught Candoia (bibroni bibroni) go wild for normal house geckos (Hemidactylus and Lepidodactylus) AND forest geckos (Gehyra). In fact the cb born ate nothing else for their first 2 years.

In my experience at least this one species of Candoia would probably grab any gecko known to man, and any item (fingers included) that smell of gecko.

Not too keen on skinks though.

Originally Posted by Twizted Paths

Seamus had luck with KFC chicken skin. Seriously.

My adult C.b. bibroni eat frozen chicken hearts, frozen chicken wings, frozen chicken drumsticks....it's a regular KFC here when I can't get geckos.

Lol, you got the big ones Helen, mine couldn't handle that. Maybe the heart cut up but that's it.

The whole gecko slurry thing is why I'm not considering breeding them. I think house geckos are cute & would feel so very guilty

Originally Posted by Twizted Paths

Lol, you got the big ones Helen, mine couldn't handle that. Maybe the heart cut up but that's it.

The whole gecko slurry thing is why I'm not considering breeding them. I think house geckos are cute & would feel so very guilty

I feel guilty about the geckos too, but not guilty enough haha... I've heard they'll take frogs too, but I don't have any handy here so I've never tried.

They ARE hard to feed when they are neonates- it's more their size than anything.

What worked for me with the the chicken hearts was to feed a gecko, and insert a heart under its tail as it was vanishing, and the snake just kept on chomping.... now they'll take hearts voluntarily, although it took a while.

There's a breeder in the UK who got all of his more than 20 neonates straight onto pinky mice though, so it is possible.

Neonate candoia, neonate gecko....

Bloody great snake, bloody great chicken drumstick!

See, that's scary tiny! I saw a pic some where of a paulsoni curled next to a quarter and the quarter looked huge.

I'll take pics of mine feeding on their mice not this coming feed but the next. I'm still worried about the flash putting them off.

Hey Zach! Have you decided what kind of candoia are you looking towards?

Thanks for all the great feed back everyone.
I'm feeling pretty confident I could handle caring for Candoia even though I have not kept snakes before - well a ball python years ago and now getting back into balls again. But have kept a variety of other herps from many gecko species, to PDF, tree frogs and akies.

I was and am still thinking I love the SIG and they would be my first choice. But I met a sweet SIT the other day at a local reptile shop and well, they're on me radar. I guess it would depend what came available first. The SIT was very cool and rapped himself around my rest nice and cozy and didn't want to leave. I think eventually we will have both.