Fish Oil Scenting

[guidofatherof5]

Its the only was most of my babies will eat fish. If I offer them fish they have no interest at all, but rub a piece of fish on a night crawler and offer it to them and the attack it like theres no tomorrow. Maybe they are training me....lol

If I were you I'd make up a plate of goulash(worms and fish) and let them dig in.

[ConcinusMan]

i have to sent fish with night crawlers...go figure lol

yeah, I haven't heard that one either, and I don't even think it's possible to be honest. If a snake flat refuses to eat fish in the first place, scenting with worms won't help since the fish smell is much stronger.

[Tyrel26]

Quote"yeah, I haven't heard that one either, and I don't even think it's possible to be honest. If a snake flat refuses to eat fish in the first place, scenting with worms won't help since the fish smell is much stronger."

Just because YOU haven't seen or heard of it doesn't make it impossible. Frankly, I don't know why you are always so negative to everyones posts, yet you complain as soon as someone posts something remotely negative towards a post of yours.

True that the scent of the fish is stronger than the smell of the night crawler but that doesn't mean there is no scent transfer. Its like people that wear aftershave to try to cover up the smell of body odor, it doesn't work but both smells are there.

I have to feed my little guys soon anyway so Ill make a video of it this time.

[Snakers]

Ugh....Here we go again.... This is Thamnophis.com..... If anyone wants the argue find a politics forum.............

[Stefan-A]

Indeed. Go after each other through PM's, if you really have something to settle.

[ConcinusMan]

I hear you. I have nothing to settle. Just making a point, and thanks for backing me up on that point.

Now, out of respect for Steve, moving on... the fish oil thing is not necessarily a bad idea, it's just that it's fat and not necessarily good for garters and also not necessarily the "smelliest" part of the fish.

If one were to buy some fish fillets for feeding garters, I imagine that the tough skin could be "pureed" and the juices drained and perhaps frozen. A bit of that would make an excellent thing to scent items with fish smell. Very smelly, and I think it would be more effective than fish oil.

[drache]

as to transfer of scent . . .
in my mind it's not so much covering up the scent of the item, as it is adding enough of a scent that they will recognize as food
it has been my experience with snakes that are switched from live fish to frozen/thawed rodents via the dead-pinky-floating-in-the-fishbowl method, that they will spit out the rodent the first few times, but eventually take it. I believe that it's because they get used to the rodent flavour mixing with the fish flavour, and eventually associate it with food

[ConcinusMan]

Some of my adult concinnus took rodents(pinkies and fuzzys) right away. Others I had to scent them and even then, they'd grab it, then drop it. I guess it just didn't "feel" right. They came around eventually and they all eat an occasional fuzzy or two in addition to their regular diet of fish and night crawlers.

[drache]

I do have a garter who will not take things too furry - rat fuzzy fine, weanling mouse not

[ConcinusMan]

But seriously, a little juice from thawing fish is all that is needed. maybe when you thaw a bunch at feeding time you could just save the juice and freeze it. Then when you need to scent food you can just thaw some juice?