mixing skinks

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Connor0729

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hey guys. i was just wondering whether or not i could mix a couple of fire skinks with another kind of skink or lizard from the same part of africa. if so, examples of what would work would be nice as well. thanks in advance.

ps. btw, i know that you shouldn't mix herps, but if you can mix fish and other animals, why not reptiles and amphibians?
 
Herptiles rarely see each others except for predation, breeding and in some cases burmation.
 
Nothing is wrong with mixing species. Problem is, 99% of people who try it don't have even the slighest clue of combatability and needs for each species. If you can TRULY provide the space and conditions for each species, go ahead. At our nature center we mix various water turtles. We have a black rat and corn, garters and waters, various amphibians... In fact I'd say the MAJORITY of our tanks are mixed, and wev'e had one problem. (Green frog was too small to go in with the bull frog! NOMNOM)

Various mabuya skinks or armadillo lizards might work.
 
... Displays and zoological centres are COMPLETELY different than private practice of husbandry. I have seen the Calgary Zoo mix Beardies with BTSes and Frilled, does it make right? No, not really. They are designed to ATTRACT people to fund some of their projects. Most of the keepers know that mixing animals is wrong, but the eedjit public expect them to be interacting in a micro-ecosystem.
 
To my knowledge, both Blue Tongue and Shingle Back skinks are good parents and are found with their children in the wild.... I guess you could but please do more reaserch on the matter. Also, fish are to "durable" many of them should not be housd together but its to easy, add fish, feed fish, take out dead fish, buy more fish. Thats the schedule of alot of people unfortunatly....

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And I'm not going to repeat anything I've said before, but just some more perspective on the issue...keeping an animal alive and keeping an animal healthy is NOT the same thing; this goes for fish, reptiles, birds, etc...any animal.

In regards to fire skinks specifically, as most skinks, fire skinks are pretty territorial to cagemates. I've personally experienced this.
 
TheBloodyIrish;1169633; said:
... Displays and zoological centres are COMPLETELY different than private practice of husbandry. I have seen the Calgary Zoo mix Beardies with BTSes and Frilled, does it make right? No, not really. They are designed to ATTRACT people to fund some of their projects. Most of the keepers know that mixing animals is wrong, but the eedjit public expect them to be interacting in a micro-ecosystem.
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For real. I've seen plenty of reptile houses that kept corn snakes with copperheads and rattlesnakes. Odd and a little bothersome. I also noticed that the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans keeps a green anaconda with a rainbow boa, and their large scrub python was also with something weird.

However, these were all in very large cages, which the vast majority of private hobbyists would not be able to afford. You have to consider that as well.
 
you should never mix any herps together because, they all have different gut contents, you can get away with it if the two species are from the same area not just same continent, EX: rainforest animals with plains, and in most places 1 reptile may in that niche. This is a big no no with tortioses The only ones of those you can house together are yellow foots and red foots, because they can be found in the wild together in the same area. I wouldnt even mix the differnt kinds of blue tounges together because they all live in differnt habitats and feed on slightly different things. Just a word to the wise.
 
lovespunaround;1169716; said:
For real. I've seen plenty of reptile houses that kept corn snakes with copperheads and rattlesnakes. Odd and a little bothersome. I also noticed that the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans keeps a green anaconda with a rainbow boa, and their large scrub python was also with something weird.

However, these were all in very large cages, which the vast majority of private hobbyists would not be able to afford. You have to consider that as well.
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The thing is that a lot of those lizards were missing toes and tail ends which are common among communal Beardies and paired BTSes.
 
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