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There’s a lot of factors to consider. But they can go months without food and sometimes take a full year to settle in. So nothings concerning that I’m aware of. Just have a conversation with the breeder you got your skink from and learn about the old diet and feeding schedule

@@davesskinks ok Thank you, they are quite hardy then, as I said I've had every reptile you can think of, just never a skink so I'm a bit of a novice

They’re not the greatest hunters. Never put live insects for food in the enclosure. They’ll escape, burrow, hide, poop, and their poop attracts mites. Then you want to evaluate temps and humidity. Every species is different. And age and old feeding schedule. An adult is only eating once a week. Also what hemisphere you are in. Lots of factors to consider. But 4 days is too small sample of a time to really evaluate. Just exhibit patience, young grasshopper

@davesskinks haha thank you, I have a eastern blue tongued skink, and he is literally 5 inches if that

So that small should be eating like 7 days a week. 4days off is not common. But there is a settling in period. You’re in Australia?

Glad we could be of help 😁. Enjoy your skinkerdoodle

Oh nice. Easterns are more rare outside Australia. I like feeding around 10am, after their heat has been on a little bit but they have plenty of hot hours to digest. They also get tunnel vision and often overlook their food. Play around with times of feeding and how you go about feeding to see if that improves results

@@davesskinks thank you

@@Nick-xg3dd glad I could help. Thanks for the love!

Unsure. I don’t know cocopeat and do not work with Halmahera. Where did you read cocopeat is good for Halms?

@@davesskinks Idk im still noob here, just asking for your advice

@@davesskinks why it isnt work ?

Yeah it’s just not a species I’ve ever worked with. There’s about 20 different types of blue tongues and we do not work with imports and other super high humidity species. I’d rather someone comment who has worked with cocopeat or Halmahera

Thanks mate! Appreciate the support. Good luck to you and your new blue tongue

First and only tank ever to not use uvb. Seeing how it goes

🤙 alright, alright, alright

Oh it ain’t easy. They gotta be adults. If sperm plugs left in the tank, it’s male. After breeding, if babies squirt out the rear, that’s female. If not breeding, you can pay a vet to do a contrast dye X-ray to light up their genitalia

Bless the internet bring us all together. I had mites once. And twice was enough. Get a quarantine tank. Paper towels. All decor goes to dishwasher on steam and high temp settings or trash. Completely sanitize old enclosure. Throw away all old substrate. Give reptile mite treatment in quarantine. If there’s one surviving mite before putting your skink back on fresh substrate, they will retake over in a couple months. I didn’t wait enough the first time and had mites a second. Awful.

@@davesskinks Thank you! He's on paper towels and his enclosure has been sanitised several times. I haven't seen a mite in two weeks, but I'm going to carry on treating him for two more just to be safe.

Thanks for the support. Will do!

Thanks!

I personally wouldn’t endorse this heat set up. I’d encourage reading over the heat section of our care guide on the main website www.davesskinks.com

You’re likely pointing out Kinsuki. Maybe Carl. Hopefully they pair this coming breeding season. You can see both of them on the Meet the Skinks tab of the main website

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Btw the way the last one before the video ended sneezed is melting my heart😍🥰

@@vanessajensen9156 aww. You’re too kind. Yes, if I get 1000 subscribers, different video edits and other features become available that I can utilize to improve content. But we sell out of babies every year. If you’d like to put a deposit down now on the 2024 season, we’d love to guarantee getting you exactly what you want

@@davesskinks I’ve been searching for specifically white northerns or shinglebacks but here in Europe it seems impossible💀 i love normal or colorful northerns but there’s something so cool about the colors fading more and more that just catches my attention. I haven’t seen any on your page but do you know if there’s any sites/people i have missed? I am kinda scared to get an animal shipped all the way from the US but if there is no other choice it is what it is yunno 😂 everyone loves a cute lil sausage

@@vanessajensen9156yeah shinglebacks are hard to find everywhere outside Australia. I’d go to the Hamm show and you’ll be able to find what you’re looking for.

@@davesskinksi went to it when i was younger and will definitely attend it in the future! I have a gecko and a snake from there who i always joke only understand german 😂

Check the brumation section of our care guide on the main website. We break it all down for ya

@@davesskinks No, but thank you.

Thanks for the sub! We only do a few UA-cam videos a year but try to make them as impactful as possible. The more subscribers and views I get, the more videos I’ll make. Appreciate your support. Please check over the heat and lighting sections of the care guide on our main website. We also have a few other UA-cam videos going over each enclosure set up you may like 😊

20 is a tad small of a colony to start. Not impossible to thrive though. Because you don’t know who is a boy or a girl or how close they are to breeding maturity, I recommend 30 to start, mix of sizes/ages. 50 quantity is better than that. 200 gal is such a large tank, it will take 100+ days until the population grows big enough to really notice. But if you flip over the cork and water bowls, you should spot some. Good luck!

Thank you for the high praise. We aim to do the best possible for our skinks. And anytime you’re looking for a baby, I hope you think of Dave’s Skinks.

@@davesskinks absolutely. your social media links don’t work from your page, please update🙏 as I definitely have interest in a baby 🥹🖤.

@@satansoup so I just clicked on the FB icon in my Banner Image and all the links in my About section on UA-cam all work for me. Mind sending me an email with your findings so I can look further into this? Davesbtskinks @ gmail.com

Tag us when the videos posted. Would love to see

@@davesskinks yeah, for my geckos, since they don’t like bright6500K daylight I’m using the 3000k Warm for that dusk & dawn look.

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Please reference Dan’s comment down below

@@davesskinks oh didnt see that, thanks!

All good 🤙

Def don’t recommend. They’re an anomaly couple. For the long-time experienced only. There’s a fully ready-to-go second enclosure, unused, in case they need to be separated at a moments notice. Please review our detailed care guide for more info on housing and cohabitation

@@davesskinks how'd you figure out they could be cohabitated? Have you noticed any interesting behavior from them that you haven't seen in your other solitary skinks?

@@Solaxer I do a lot of networking with keepers and breeders in Australia and Indonesia where the lizards are native to. But for this couple. They were put together for breeding but both stressed out after separation. So we kept them together even after the breeding season. But after a few months, the honeymoon phase was over and they’re each in their own enclosures now.

Yeah I had one goof up on the first hole. No mess ups after that, lol. Thankfully. Appreciate the love brother!

This is the 66-5. They don’t make it anymore I believe.

Appreciate the love!

Thank you! More channel follows and video likes will certainly support this mission. Feel more than encouraged to share our channel with everyone you know

Custom make all my enclosures. These old Freedom Breeder racks, which they sadly don’t make anymore, I got used off somebody else in the hobby.

Good advice. Thanks! Happy wife = happy life

17 years, this is the first moment not using uv light and I’m only testing the waters on fully grown adults. I may play around further next year about uv options. The issue is height. You don’t want uv so close to their skink. 5/6” is just too little for the power reptile bulbs give off. But I’ll figure it out in time for another video 😉

Just gotta stay tuned for the next video 😉

Each drawer is 55” x 33” x 9”

Sorry, that’s the rack size. The display enclosures are like 45” long, 23.5 deep, 13.75 tall

Good question! When they’re born it’s every day. I scale back to 6 times a week around 8 weeks old, and from there it’s a very gradual decrease in total feedings until they’re 3 years old and it’s just once a week from that point on. When they’re babies, I feed meals the size of their belly. And as they move towards adult size, I gradually change the meal size rival their head around 3 years old as well. Hope this helps. We’ve got a detailed care guide on the main website with additional info

@@davesskinks Thank you for the quick response. 😊

Thanks for the compliment Cat Man! Really depends on the meat, quality and where I’m getting it from. These particular meats were used super fresh and completely raw. There will be another feeding video in a week or so. Ultimately, their stomachs have not evolved for cooked food so it is more challenging for them to digest, but bacteria can plague any animal so it’s a toss up. If you feel the meat is safe, keep it raw. If you’re worried, cook. Boy skinks do the most movement in the wild, known to walk 15 city blocks in a day. If you can let them out to exercise they’ll certainly appreciate it.

Shee-kahgo, Illinois. The Windy City of brotherly love

@@davesskinks oh. Just asked because I live in Croatia and I wondered if you were offering baby skinks in Europe. Sorry

All good brother. For future reference the location is embedded into the video near the top. But the US laws stink for shipping Australian-native species overseas. You’ve got to go through a Canadian intermediary. So I want to say you’re looking close to $1000 US all said and done to get it to your door before the cost of the lizard itself. So we can do it, I have people in Canada who can help, but it’s obviously not cost effective and high risk shipping to Canada, then the UK, then to Croatia as a baby in a box

I’m out of Chicago but I can ship anywhere overnight in the continental 48 US. I have a couple babies available on the site now. Uploading a few more this weekend and many more next weekend when the last northern litter finishes shedding. Price guide at the very top of the Purchase Rules menu tab off the main website www.davesskinks.com

@@davesskinks Thanks for the reply. I am near chicago so if you do ship it wont take long.

Send me an email with your info

No doubt it’s dangers consumed regularly or in large quantities. Keeping variety in the diet is great, however you go about doing it. That one little potato spread out over the entire meal, divided by individual servings, every once in a while shouldn’t be concerning unless there’s other factors to consider. We have a full list of foods that are best, still good, and the few that are dangerous on the main website www.DavesSkinks.com/care

Appreciate the support. Gotta get me that gf first though

@@davesskinks oh i thougth you were dating trisha from Reptilian Garden

@@fezboys2837 she’s got her own boyfriend. A man with fluffier hair than I. She’s a respected colleague and we support one another.

@@davesskinks go on lad get yourself a girlfriend supporting you from england right now bro

@@fezboys2837 appreciate the love brother

Thank you!

@@davesskinks They are so cute. How much is this

@@rabbit8141 we have a price guide at the top of the Purchase Rules tab of the main website. The For Sale tab will continually be updated over the next couple months

When a female is horny you can lightly rub or scratch their tail and it waves. If they are gravid when you do this they actually raise their tail like they are going to expel a baby. It does not always work but I have yet to see a female do this who is not gravid.

@@davesskinks awesome thanks so much!

Oh course Becca. Stuff like that I’ll add to Instagram day of. Thank you for the kind words and support!