if anyone has owned one, can you give me some info on how easily it/they were to keep. type of habitat you set up, diet, any general information you can help with would be great, thx.
red eyed crocodile skink
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Oe important thing to keep in mind is that they are on the tricky side. Defenetly go for a cb one or a long term kept one. They dont like it hot and are completly hands of, privacy is very important. The ideal way to keep them is an planted terrarium with ferns, mosses, corks and a soft sligthly moist leaf litter to hide into.
my goal is to create a small pond in a 40 gallon with land on either side. its currently planted already with lillys and some moss
Woah, are you talking about the same skinks I am thinking of?
Red eyed crocs are on the easy side. Keep a large water bowl with deep moist substrate and a small heating pad, feed them dusted crickets every few days. A 20 long tank will be fine for one adult multiple adults can be kept together but require more room and a bigger water portion as well as bigger/ more hides. They are easily handled and don't stress all that easily but extended handling should be avoided. I have hatched babies at the shop I work at from animals on display in a high traffic/ noise area so I know they are pretty hardy. Awesome looking animals and a great starter lizard.
Red eyed crocs are on the easy side. Keep a large water bowl with deep moist substrate and a small heating pad, feed them dusted crickets every few days. A 20 long tank will be fine for one adult multiple adults can be kept together but require more room and a bigger water portion as well as bigger/ more hides. They are easily handled and don't stress all that easily but extended handling should be avoided. I have hatched babies at the shop I work at from animals on display in a high traffic/ noise area so I know they are pretty hardy. Awesome looking animals and a great starter lizard.
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Snakeguy's information should be accurate. But I have heard quite a few discrepancies regarding the no. of males/females. I think you should always have a pair at maximum.
Snakeguy's information should be accurate. But I have heard quite a few discrepancies regarding the no. of males/females. I think you should always have a pair at maximum.
i've seen that information before but i don't wanna have a rubbermaid container out in a the living room, much rather have something that looks nice thus my habitat idea. but it seems like all the care sheets i find have the same info cut and pasted to the next. nobody really has any hands on experience over time.
you can have something that looks nice but I would stay away from most live plants because they will end up trampled. Ours are set up in about 2" of sphagnum with a "natural" hide rock and water bowl. It is a simple set up and you could certainly do more but it is affordable, esthetically pleasing, and meets the animals care requirements.
Your not the first person to tell me that, but all the people here that tryed them had real trobble getting them going. The tips Ive mentioned relate to what worked...sometimes.
I figure it has allot to do with the conditions animals arrive in, the species they belong to and the factor luck. Maybe there is better shipping conditions these days or because the increase in some species populations due to human impact made healty specimens more reliably available, it decreased trafic time.