I keep mussuranas.

The trick to get reluctant babies to eat is to wrap a pinky in a shed snake skin. Works every time.

As for the long term effects of feeding rodents to animals whose metabolisms have adapted to reptile prey:

This last week I had to put down my 11 year old female dispholidus. These are primarily chameleon, lizard and bird eaters in the wild. For 11 years she has been on a rodent diet.

While we knew that she had a gastric tumor, the initial necropsy results indicated several other tumors - the liver among them. While she was in no way overweight, our vet is fairly certain that feeding her an all-rodent diet compromised her health.

Because of it I am re-evaluating how I feed my drys, my thrasops and my mussuranas. Feeder anoles are readily available, I think that making that the mainstay of their diet may prove to be beneficial to their health in the long run.