So I'm reaching crisis mode on feeding my Cali Red. The ONLY store I've been able to find livebearers sold as feeders is out, may not have them back in again for several WEEKS, and may end up dropping them altogether.

I STILL can't get her to take a pinky. Even scented she just won't go for them if they're not moving, (most recently I but a pinky piece in the same bowl as my last live Endler's filled with water to get it good and scented. She ate the Endler's but left the pinky) but I can't get her to tease feed because she's so shy. My breeder tank is ready and I've got a breeding trio of guppies, but it's going to be at LEAST two months before I have anything for her to actually eat. Right now I've got two smaller guppies I got for relatively cheap to get her through the week. After that...?

I went to a local reptile show this weekend and was recommended to try Reptilinks. Looking into it further it seems people have had good luck getting garters to take the micro and mini frog links without having to tease (and since infernalis feed extensively on frogs it would be as close to the natural diet as I can get without ACTUALLY feeding her a live frog). But yet again I'm running into availability problems; the Micro links that would be the right size are out of stock, and she's still too small for a Mini (they're about the size of a whole pinky). They were supposed to be back yesterday or today, but so far they're still showing as out on the direct order website. Does anyone know of a 3rd party vendor that might have them?