Prehensile tailed skinks

[cassadaga]

Is anyone here working with this species, whether it be keeping or breeding. It's one we've been interested in for a while, and they seem to be getting more rare by the day.

 

[latshki]

no I dont keep them but there was a guy on craig's list that had one for 300$ and he said all you feed him is a head of lettuce a month

 

[spykerherps]

:main_huh::main_no:

 

[Nigel4less]

no I dont keep them but there was a guy on craig's list that had one for 300$ and he said all you feed him is a head of lettuce a month

Ugh... I think I just lost faith in Man Kind...

 

[T&KBrouse]

I know a lady that has an entire colony of monkey tail skinks. She turned an entire room into their jungle, complete with built in sprinkler system. Its amazing.
Since Ms. Alley is getting up there in years, I help her out with them twice a week and I gotta tell ya, these are the neatest animals I've ever seen. She has a good 20 pothos plants hanging all over the room, which they munch on, and she feeds them a "gourmet meal" twice a week, consisting of leafy greens, papaya, strawberries, mangos, squash and an assortment of other fruits and veggies.
Shes had this colony for 30 years now and they're healthy as they can be.
Boy, are they big!!

 

[spykerherps]

That sounds much better.

 

[ReptileMan27]

I dont really see them anymore, thought they were put on the protected species list or something so they were not importing them anymore.. Plus they only have like 1 baby at a time I believe.

 

[latshki]

Ugh... I think I just lost faith in Man Kind...

sorry to dig up an old post but that skink I was talking about is now in my care and is getting improvements by the day

 

[mainelygeckos]

Fantastic that you took it in! Kudos to you Show us a pic I would love to see it! Never seen one b4

 

[latshki]

Fantastic that you took it in! Kudos to you Show us a pic I would love to see it! Never seen one b4

I have a thread on here of him but I will be posting a bunch of pics of all my critters soon

 

[tofuman]

I know a lady that has an entire colony of monkey tail skinks. She turned an entire room into their jungle, complete with built in sprinkler system. Its amazing.
Since Ms. Alley is getting up there in years, I help her out with them twice a week and I gotta tell ya, these are the neatest animals I've ever seen. She has a good 20 pothos plants hanging all over the room, which they munch on, and she feeds them a "gourmet meal" twice a week, consisting of leafy greens, papaya, strawberries, mangos, squash and an assortment of other fruits and veggies.
Shes had this colony for 30 years now and they're healthy as they can be.
Boy, are they big!!

Sounds awesome. Could you try to get some pictures?

 

[T&KBrouse]

I'll be seing her this week, so I'll be sure to get some pictures of them.

 

[latshki]

sweet!

 

[Alliemac]

I would love to see that room!!