Help: Skinks????

Subject: Skinks????
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 22 May 01 - 06:37 PM

We have just acquired a skink to mind while it's owner is moving house. She's a lovely little thing, About 12" long inculding the tail. Pale grey underbelly. Dark grey on top with orange markings. Any advice?

Cheers

Dave the Gnome

Subject: RE: Help: Skinks????
From: GUEST
Date: 22 May 01 - 06:43 PM

Half an hour at about gas mark 6 should be OK.

Nice with a Bernaise sauce.

Subject: RE: Help: Skinks????
From: Allan C.
Date: 22 May 01 - 06:53 PM

Presumably their owner has a nice terrarium set up and has given you an ample supply of mealworms, or other live food. If the terrarium offers hiding places for the little guy, then all is well. (They really like to hide.)

They are mighty hard to catch when they get loose because they are able to move quite quickly. Skinks can also get into small crevaces where you wouldn't be able to get to. In short, don't let it get loose.

Subject: RE: Help: Skinks????
From: GUEST
Date: 22 May 01 - 06:54 PM

Tis page seems to talk sense and gives some advice about caring for them.

Subject: RE: Help: Skinks????
From: Allan C.
Date: 22 May 01 - 07:08 PM

Well, yeah. I hadn't thought about that. There are skinks and then there are skinks. It depends upon what part of the world your skink is from. But while they may have differences in food preference, a well laid out and provisioned terrarium is really all you will need for your purposes.

Subject: RE: Help: Skinks????
From: Chicken Charlie
Date: 22 May 01 - 07:28 PM

What part of the world ??? African killer skink?? I was going to say, "Don't let the cat near it," but perhaps, "Don't let it near the cat" would be better. I kept some alligator lizards going on mealie worms for a while; should be a fairly simple operation.

CC

Subject: RE: Help: Skinks????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 May 01 - 07:36 PM

I like skinks. They're not really a snake and not really a lizard. My sort of creature, confused and not very bright....

Good luck with it, hope it all turns out well, I never forget looking after the school hamster, which upped and died on us the day before we went back....

LTS

Subject: RE: Help: Skinks????
From: Paul G.
Date: 22 May 01 - 08:10 PM

Here's a little thread "drift"...

Carl Hiaasen, an extroardinary Florida fiction writer and Miami Herald columnist has a recuring character in his semi-offbeat novels named "Skink". Seems Skink was the Governor of Florida until he split a bit at the seams and is now a swamp dwelling, cartel-busting, roadkill eating environmentalist anti-hero. Great reading.

Good luck with your lizard.

pg

Subject: RE: Help: Skinks????
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 22 May 01 - 09:21 PM

They also drop their tails when threatened...

skinks are pretty cool...

;-)

Subject: RE: Help: Skinks????
From: GUEST,willie-o
Date: 22 May 01 - 11:48 PM

we have five-line skinks living in gravel deposits hereabouts...so they say, theyr'e damn hard to spot.

W-O

Subject: RE: Help: Skinks????
From: Hollowfox
Date: 23 May 01 - 10:40 AM

Willie-o, that's because that kind has lines,not spots. hehehe.

Subject: RE: Help: Skinks????
From: RichM
Date: 23 May 01 - 10:56 AM

Skink is a wonderful word. I always think of it should mean a kinky skunk....

Rich