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Prehensile-Tailed Skinks

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Hi
I just want to make this topic for all of us to talk about our skinks and ask each other ???s about how we do different stuff and where we got our skinks etc...

I just got a female Prehensile-Tailed Skinks that is about a year old. She is a lot of fun to see when she climbs around in her cage. and I like to take her outside and let her climb in the trees some when it is warm!
I also have a question... Can a Prehensile-Tailed Skink and a Blue tongue skink be kept in the same cage if it is about 4’x 4’x 2’?

Here are some pics of my girl!
 

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they love bananas. also they love to climb the more room for them to climb the better! very nice skink, is it a wild cought? male or female?
 
woops just reread your post , looks like a nice girl. I dont think it would be a good idea to house the two together , monkey taild skinks need alot more humidity if im not mistaken. post some more pics of your cage I would love to see it!
 
Here is an update...

I am building a new cage that is 5'4 x 2' x 2'.
I will post pics when it is done!!!

My skink is a CB. female about one year old and she is 16 & 1/2 in.
I have feed her bananas some but her favorit is water-melon & other melons!

Do you have any pics of your skink?
 
I had one about 5 years ago , It was a huge WC male. he had escaped, then came back like 2 months later then escaped again the next day! I was thinking of getting more if I ever have anought money , I would love the breed these guys one day. do you plan on getting a male and trying to produce some captive breed babies?
 
Yes I would like to get a male soon but I have to save for a while.
If I can find one I would like to get one for as cheap as I got my female.
I also thought of selling her since she is CB. and buying a WC. adult pair that are ready to breed!
 
In my experience with herps healthy tame cb's are worth their weight in gold.
I think that your plan to save up is a good one. It would be aweful to sell her off to get a pair only to end up paying for vet bills to treat parasites, dealing with finicky feeders, bad personalities, and to top it off the pair might not even be compatible. Plus, your girl is lovely!

I've heard that the best way to introduce a new PTS to a female is to get it as a baby, then the adult female will kind of adopt it.

-Alice
 
Well, all the money tails in the states are LTC's. Importation stopped on them a few years ago.

aliceinwl said:
In my experience with herps healthy tame cb's are worth their weight in gold.
I think that your plan to save up is a good one. It would be aweful to sell her off to get a pair only to end up paying for vet bills to treat parasites, dealing with finicky feeders, bad personalities, and to top it off the pair might not even be compatible. Plus, your girl is lovely!

I've heard that the best way to introduce a new PTS to a female is to get it as a baby, then the adult female will kind of adopt it.

-Alice
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I thought a bunch of wc's got imported last year due to a technicality or something. I could be mistaken on the timeline though. But, even then, you're probably right about all the guys available right now being ltc's.

-Alice
 
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