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JoCee
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 Feed for Common Garden SKinks?
I have three Common Garden Skinks, and I feed them Slaters. But as the weather cools, I’m finding it harder and harder to find slaters that are small enough for my skinks. So I need to know what I can feed them. I live in Australia, so I need something I can get here. Thanks!
JoCee
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06/29/09 08:58pm
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Sinosauropterix
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Message To: JoCee In reference to Message Id: 2031234
Feed for Common Garden SKinks?
The general rule for feeding lizards is to feed them prey items or bits of food like fruit that is smaller than their head. I.e. it fits between their eyes and within the linear confines of the skull so that they can swallow it easily. So basically any bugs you can get that fit these perameters will do. A word about wild-caught insects though: don’t feed them to your lizards unless you are sure that the area you found them in has not been sprayed with chemicals of any kind like pesticides or herbicides. Many wild-caught insects also carry internal parasites that can be transferred to your lizard when it eats them and that can affect its eating habits, activity, and overall health. If you can visit a bait shop or a pet store, ask for small mealworms or pinhead crickets (or medium-sized crickets if you think the lizard can handle them). These two insects are the most commonly available feeders that petstores sell so, if a petstore does sell feeders, it will have atleast one of these insects.
Hope this helps. Good luck!
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06/30/09 01:07pm
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JoCee
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Message To: Sinosauropterix In reference to Message Id: 2031519
Feed for Common Garden SKinks?
It’s not sprayed, but as they’re so small I cant give them full meal worms, so I have to chop them up, which is NOT pleasant. I tied them on tiny pieces of strawberry, but they didn’t eat it! Plus it dried up after only about one hour, so that didn’t work. What GREENS can I feed them?
JoCee
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07/02/09 01:24am
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Sinosauropterix
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Message To: JoCee In reference to Message Id: 2032539
Feed for Common Garden SKinks?
Umm, with an exception to blue-tongued skinks and a few other types, most skinks don’t eat greens. They are insectivores. Sometimes they also eat soft fruit from time to time so try some pureed fruit with your skink. Have you tried pinhead crickets? These are baby crickets that are about the size of a pin head (hence the name) and thus are often fed to lizards that eat really tiny insects like ants. I have not heard of anyone feeding a myrmecophagous (ant-eating) lizard like a horned toad pinhead crickets but I bet it could be done if the lizard were captive-bred. Just ask for pinhead crickets at your local petstore if they sell crickets there. They should know what you mean.
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07/02/09 10:52am
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