wow that Skink is beautiful and you got him for free is good. Someone told me for a first lizard I should get a Blue Tongued Skink.

That is a beautiful Skink, much prettier than the Blue Tongues. The care and feeding is pretty much the same though. I have a suggestion for feeding if you can't get it to eat veggies. For my Blue Tongue Skink I put 1/3 can of low fat good quality dog food, 1 large jar of baby food vegetables, a good size handful of salad (mustard, bok choy, kale, cilantro) and about 20 crickets or meal worms...into a blender and puree it all smooth. Put it all into ice cube trays and freeze it. Depending on it's appetite give it 1 or 2 "ice cubes" a day (thawed). They love this stuff. They also love garden snails.

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Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it it try.

Michelle

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0.2 leopard geckos
0.0.1 schneider's skink
0.0.1 painted turtle
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