Care Sheet for SkinksAverage Rating Given To This Care Sheet Is 4.33 (1=lowest, 5=highest) Last Updated: 02/24/2004 |
Main Category: | Lizards |
Sub Category: | Skinks |
Care Sheet Submitted By: | Misty&squirt |
Years Experience: | 3 to 5 Years |
Species: | Golden Skink |
Other Species or Phases this Care Sheet May Cover: | Golden Skinks |
Sexing and Characteristics: | Skinks are very hard to breed.
To tell if there male or female ,The males tend to have a brighter orange stripe than the females. |
Mostly Active During: | Both |
Substrate and Water Needs: | Use sand or rocks for there substrate, make sure it is pretty deep( they like to dig). Mist there house once or twice daily and have a shallow water dish in there house .(Make sure it is big enough for them to fit in, They like the occasional bath) |
Lighting and UVB: | N/A |
Temperatures and Humidity: | N/A |
Heating and Equipment: | A skinks enclosure should be kept at warm tempture,Since they do tend to bury themselves you should have some kind of heat on the ground(a heat rock half burried for example).Use a uvb bulb for there lighting. |
Caging Provided: | Well my skinks house is a 33 Gallon house with a screen top,I put a 150 watt uv Dessert bulb in(scence he has lots of ventalation,from the screen top. He has a mixture of sand and bark for his subtrate.on one end of his house it is about 6``deepand 3 at the other.Imake sure that there is lots of undergronnd tunnles(use toilet paper rolls and burry them make sure that at least 1 end is left open.)Allof his tunnles are heated .(I just burried the heatrock half way and let it touch the top side of the tunnles,Make surethat you do leave some heat rock out of the sand and then i just took a butterdish and put it over the heat rock(now he has his own little hide away house,and he is kept nice and warm.
I put lots of plastic plants in his house,and i provide a shallow water dish(big enough for him to fit in (he enjoys baths).One more thing,put different toy in there house to make them use the heads(i put a cat toy with a bell in it and little plastic lizards) (make sure you skink can not eat his plastic lizard and make sure the cat toy does not have cat nip on it).
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Diet: | Carnivorous |
Description of Diet: | They can eat Crickets,meal worms, wax worms,super worms,
and they love strawberry babyfood.Mine eats the odd peice of melon to. |
Supplements, Nutrition and Usage: | Put vitim calcium on there crickets. |
Maintenance: | Clean there house about4 times a year, Change there house arround after you clean it. clean water dish every 2end day |
Some Words on this Species: | Skinks are very hardy lizards and they should live a happy long life if taken properly care of.(if you have a gold skink you`ll love them to death.). |
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