Hey guys, I'm kinda new to this, was hoping you could help me out. I was looking at a fire skink. Here's what I would be keeping it in:
-72 gallon Bow front tank (leaks, pet store selling it for 89 bucks!)
-Substrate: Eco-Earth/Repti-Bark mix, 3-4 inches deep
-Relative Humidity: 70-80
-Screen top
-Basking light (95 at basking spot, 85 at cooler spot), 75 during night via ceramic infra-red light
-Well planted (unless the skink will eat plants?)
The one question I have is what is the UV light all about? I realize they need it to digest calcium or something, and how much percent of the light would have to be UVB and UVA? I have two choices, 3% UVB and 6-7% UVA, or 7% UVB and no UVA. If you guys could think of any more suitable lights, that would be great!
Cheers, Eddy

Welcome to HCN Eddy!
The labels are misleading. A UVB light will also be producing UVA. The UVB is what you are really concerned with. I am not familiar with fire skinks so someone else will have to help you on the care. However if they require UVB the stronger the better and if it is a flourescent tube it needs to be no more than 12 inches maximum from the animals basking place.

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Sounds good to me. I have a few reccomendations:

Get a peice of bark big enough for the skink to fit under. Place it on the substrate and your fire skink will literally live under it (mine sure does). They can be hand tamed, mine is so tame it's just ridiculous, so work with yours. They aren't very fast, so wrangling unruly ones isn't hard.

I just throw on the exoterra bulbs. I dunno what the percentages are, but I suspect that you don't need that much. I never did fuss with the things and don't feed alot of calcium to them and my skink are all indestructible tanks.