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Smallest Feedet Lizards?

I don't know the answer to that, but you can just use house gecko's tails (or legs) as feeders if you have really tiny snakes. Also freshly-hatched house geckos are TINY.
 
I've been using a dead frozen gecko, but she doesn't like it all that much unless it's fresh. :/ I have three geckos I use to scent her food and take their dropped tails. I'm hoping they breed but until then I'm out of luck.
 
Also I have used chicken hearts (which are available in frozen packs of chicken giblets and hearts in the grocery stores where I live, not sure about the USA). Maybe they can be cut into strips?

What species are you feeding?
 
Runs_With_Wolves said:
Could I try chicken liver? Along with her normal food?
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Liver is very high in vitamin A, and I think (but do not know for sure) that you do not want to overload with that.

When feeding my pretty small Fiji boa neonates I found chicken hearts quite useful to follow up food that they would take willingly - that is, they would take a gecko tail or leg, and when it was almost down I would put a chicken heart into their mouths and hold it there with a pair of forceps. (Not pushing it in, just holding it as if it was part of the gecko tail). Usually they would keep right on swallowing. This could also be done with a section of chicken leg or, I suppose, liver (but liver is a bit floppy).

I can't find any pics of the chicken hearts, but here are a few of the babies taking gecko tails. Once they were down to the last bit of tail I'd let go with the forceps (or chopsticks), and hold strips of heart there, and off they'd go.

If you have to rely on single-organ food like this for any length of time, I'd pack the heart with some reptile vitamins (they are conveniently hollow), as just muscle meat does not contain all the nutrients they need.
 

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Also, on the earlier thread you asked about using egg - I have used beaten egg in a soft plastic pipette when snakes this size would not feed, but I would only do it as a last resort - it is a great stress on them, and I never had any long-term success getting them back onto solid food. It seems yours are eating willingly, so I would not go that route yet.
 
I have hatched out a fair number of gray banded kings when I was working with them and unfortunately NEVER had any of them express any interest in anoles. Tried deceased baby leopard geckos too without any luck. Baby Sceloporus, and mediterranean/house geckos (Hemidactylus sp.) were the only things I had any luck with.

Never tried brown back skinks, but they would certainly be small enough.
 
So she loves fresh gecko. She's too small to eat micro links and she hates the outer casing. I take the frog mush and tease feed her with small bits a couple times.
 
I dont want to high jack the thread. Can someone with a lead on house geckos in bulk to California shoot me a PM for a supplier? I havent figured out where to find feeder sources on here.

Thanks
 
jacob11379 said:
I dont want to high jack the thread. Can someone with a lead on house geckos in bulk to California shoot me a PM for a supplier? I havent figured out where to find feeder sources on here.

Thanks
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you might want to try posting a wanted thread in the feeder classifieds section
 
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