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 #1704428


RA2OR17
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 Show pictures of your skink’s home

in alot of the other forums have a couple of people that show pictures of their pets homes!!! an im also needing some ideas to give my guy a nicer place.. so if you have a cool setup for your skinks put em up!.. thanks
04/15/08  05:19pm

 #1704504


Ogoao
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   Message To: RA2OR17   In reference to Message Id: 1704428


 Show pictures of your skink’s home

hey!!!!! well sorry.. i don’t have a pic of my pet;s house!!! but i can explain it if you wish! i hope you mean skinks! well i USED to have 2 schneider skinks.. but one died in an unfortuante accident.... i have a 50 gallon set up.... which is about 3and a half feet long.. 2 feet wide... 2 - half inches of PLAYSAND... cheap kind yes... then i have an 120 watt light bulb... an automatic light switch that turns off everday at 8pm.... artificial leaves...... LONG branch.. cave.... wood cave... and.. a small water dish...... and a wooden ladder i made myself!!!! hope tht helps! and i feed my skink mealworms..... and SOMETIMES crickets.... and cat food.... as treats.... and.... that’s all.. if you have any more questions.... please ask!!!!!!!!
04/15/08  06:05pm

 #1705371


RA2OR17
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   Message To: Ogoao   In reference to Message Id: 1704504


 Show pictures of your skink’s home

yeah if you can get a picture of you skinks tank that would be awesome
04/16/08  11:49am

 #1705509


Ogoao
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   Message To: RA2OR17   In reference to Message Id: 1705371


 Show pictures of your skink’s home

YIKES! well sorry man.... don’t have a WORKIN digital camera to show you... hope some genorous person shows you!!! ha ha good luck!
04/16/08  02:30pm

 #1707087


Luvlizards
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   Message To: Ogoao   In reference to Message Id: 1705509


 Show pictures of your skink’s home

Here’s Trickster’s enclosure . . . he’s a 5 lined skink . . .

The last picture is just cause I thought it was cute . . . our little cat who thinks he’s a dog!
04/17/08  07:18pm

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Ogoao
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   Message To: Luvlizards   In reference to Message Id: 1707087


 Show pictures of your skink’s home

ok..... the last picture is just ADORABLE..... it is SO hard to find cats and dogs live in peace with eachother.. that is SOOOOOOOOO CUTE!!!!!



04/17/08  08:19pm

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Yavie
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 Show pictures of your skink’s home
04/17/08  11:46pm

 #1708085


RA2OR17
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   Message To: Yavie   In reference to Message Id: 1707440


 Show pictures of your skink’s home

hey yavie, did you make that cage just from an old cabnet? or did you make the whole thing? an also another question what do you use for your substrate... i’ve ordered a terrarium thats 48"x18" by 13" and a light fixture to go with it.. an im looking for a decent substrate.. im buying a Blue tongue either late next month or early june.. cause i wanna nake sure i got everything i need.. and its also a good time for the select breeders im checking into.. so justlet me know thanks
04/18/08  04:10pm

 #1708197


Yavie
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   Message To: RA2OR17   In reference to Message Id: 1708085


 Show pictures of your skink’s home

A friend of mine is a woodworker, he built it for me. It’s made of cherry plywood, cherry wood, and walnut, 1/4" glass. On wheels. Each enclosure is 48x24x18"h interior dimensions, hardwired.

For substrate I use 2-3 inches of play sand, with bark, leaf litter and loose moss over the top. They love skimming around in it.

With a 13" height, you’re going to have to be very careful of the wattage light you use in your new enclosure.



04/18/08  05:45pm

 #1708738


JackAsp
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   Message To: Yavie   In reference to Message Id: 1708197


 Show pictures of your skink’s home

Here’s the tub. it’s one of those long, wide, but low Rubbermaid tubs, 44 inches long and I believe 21 or 22 inches wide. It’s only about 6.5" high, but Minerva happens to prefer that. I oiginally kept her in something 48X18X21, but she went from tame to extremely skittish when I tried that. This thing has more floor space, she wasn’t a climber anyway, and I can check on her a lot more easily, which means less time for her to get scared. Her legs are so short anyway that she can still lift her neck up as high as she wants, even when sitting on one of the logs. In the tank, she would only come up to bask for about ten minutes in the morning and to make little commando raids on her food dish when I wasn’t nearby. Now, her behavior seems a lot more comfortable.

The substrate is sphagnum. I almost always use a food dish, but Eugongylus are actually pretty good about seperating food from substrate. Their snout has an extremely narow but flat tip for catching bugs in leaf piles, and works just as well on moss. So every once in while I’ll put an insect where she can chase it, just for the mental stimulation it might give her. Generally I like to know how much she’s eating, though, so I use the dish. Plus, when I use earthworms it keeps the moss from sticking to them.

There’s an UTH under one end, but I turn it off a lot, depending on room temperature. The lights add enough heat during the day, and a minor night cooldown doesn’t seem to bother her as much as too much heat does. The lid, not shown in the picture, has a hinge in the middle and opens at either end. it also clamps down at each end. I went crazy with a soldering iron and wood planer, so the top is nonabrasive and not only ventilated but even allows good amounts of UVb from the strip lights (also not shown.)

The dish is a drain pan for a flowerpot. She soaked more when I first got her, because she was dehydrated. Lowering temps and raising humity solved that problem, but she stil soaks a lot before shedding.

The moss was a fairly short-lived experiment that failed. I hoped it would grow quickly enough to help with waste control, but all it actually did was make cleaning difficult. The rest of the setup is the same as in that picture though.

In this one, you can see her peeking up to see what I’m doing. She wouldn’t have done that in the big fancy jungle tank.
04/19/08  04:02am

 #1712585


Luvlizards
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   Message To: JackAsp   In reference to Message Id: 1708738


 Show pictures of your skink’s home

There are more skink enclosures out there I bet :) Let’s see ’em!
04/22/08  04:34pm

 #1716051


LadyLizard
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   Message To: RA2OR17   In reference to Message Id: 1704428


 Show pictures of your skink’s home

Here are my skinks home!


and here are my skinks on their hammock!


xox
04/25/08  02:49pm


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