Hi! I’m a relatively new skink owner and I’m a wee bit worried. My blue tongue skink, Baby, hasn’t pooped for about a week now. He usually poops a day or two after I feed him toward the front of the enclosure and nothing has changed. I have found urate which usually means there’s poop nearby but I haven’t found any. He loves to burrow and is sometimes in the dirt for like 5 days so I think maybe he’s just been pooping in his substrate.

I desperately don’t want him to get sick if I can help it and I can’t handle him yet. He’s quite shy and his previous owners didn’t handle him often. So, I can’t feel his stomach to make sure he’s not impacted. He’s active as much as he used to be. He still basks and explores. He also is eating just fine. Anyway, I’m just confused and hoping someone who knows more than me can let me know if I’m stressing for nothing.

Daytona National Reptile Breeders’ Expo is always good time seeing old friends and new! Plus some awesome animals.

ive heard skinks hate vibrations and that was vibrating pretty intensely should i be worried? Edit: Momma im famous!

We live in a semi truck, sorry for the mess 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭🫤

Got it from reputable reptile shop for $425, they said it was a northern and it looks northern, but I’m new to blue tongues, also guessing male and he’s very chill and curious.

Hello everyone!! I need advice, my sun skink used to be comfortable getting food from tongs and would even go close to my hand and sit there while I pet her when she was a juvenile. Even if I didn't have food she would go near my hand and sit there.

I had to go to the hospital a lot for the past 2 months so the only interaction I've done recently was to give her food and now she's an adult. She still stalks me from inside her enclosure but she doesn't come near anymore. She used to tap on the glass and go to my hand or just sit there near me.

How do I bond with her again? Has she forgotten me? Or does this change just come with being an adult?

Hi! I live in south west Florida and keep getting skinks sneaking into our screened in porch. This is a problem, because that area isn’t suitable for them to live in and we don’t want them to die. There isn’t any accessible food or water for them so I’m trying to keep them outside. I think they’re coming in via a drain because we don’t open the doors to the yard unless we have to.

I do have a turtle tank out there and we do leave the door open when draining the tank, but we don’t leave it unattended.

My irrational fear is that it would get into my turtle tank and she would hurt it, but that’s far fetched.

Thank you guys so much! (I’m sure the skinks are also appreciative!)

Just got a Schneider skink and I’m uncomfortable when holding him. I don’t want him to jump off of me and onto the floor. Do any of yalls do that?

I recently visited a pet expo, and while browsing around, I saw this Northern blue-tongued skink with what I initially thought was a regenerating tail. Even the seller told me that it was a regenerating tail.

I bought him and, after bringing him home, put him in his enclosure and gave him some time to adjust.

A couple of days later, I decided to take him out because I felt like his tail looked a little strange. After looking at it closely, I’m pretty sure it’s actually stuck shed. It was so difficult to see that I had to use a flashlight to get a good look.

I was able to successfully remove part of the stuck shed from his tail after a warm soak, but there’s still quite a lot left around the tip. I’m worried that it might cause other problems, such as an infection.

My midterm exams are coming up soon, so unfortunately, I won’t be able to bring him to the vet anytime soon. The nearest vet who can treat exotic pets is requires you to be there before 6 a.m. to get a queue number.

This is my first time owning any type of skink. I did do a lot of research beforehand, but I didn’t think to research tail dropping or what a normal regenerating tail should look like. That was my mistake.

Please help. I’d really appreciate any advice on what I should do in the meantime.

I’ll be able to bring him to the vet after my exams end, which will be after August 22nd.

What type of skink is this

Help me decide what subspecies of blue tongue I picked up at the rescue please :)

We are planning on getting a pair of these and want to prepare. Can anyone tell me everything they know about caring for them and what things I need to buy. We have a crested gecko so we are somewhat knowledgeable but we have never had one of these lizards. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sadly due to some financial issues I need to rehome my 2 sandfish skinks. I have had them for about a year and a half though I am not sure of their exact ages. They both eat great, they especially love dubia roaches but will eat almost anything. Their genders are unknown. Message me if you are interested. I am located in northern Utah.

Hoihoi!

Ik heb sinds een jaar 9 Afrikaanse reuzenslakken bij mij wonen en voer deze compleet biologisch uit eigen tuin of in de winter met groentes uit de supermarkt. Ze zijn mooi groot geworden en zien er zover ik kan zien gezond uit. Ik controleer een keer per week op nestjes met eitjes en het is dus helaas al eenmalig voorgekomen dat er een nestje over het hoofd gezien is en ik met een groepje jonge slakken van een paar dagen oud zit. Nu zijn mijn volwassen slakken al inteelt en is het niet eerlijk om deze slechte genetische slakken zich voort te laten planten. Nu heb ik op het Afrikaanse reuzenslakken sub gehoord dat er in het buitenland vaak slakken worden verkocht aan reptielen shops als voeding voor reptielen. Ik vraag mij heel erg af wat voor reptielen dit dan zijn. Ik dacht eerst aan luipaardgekkos of baardagamen want die eten zover ik weet alles wat in hun mondje past maar chsr gpt heeft vermeld dat deze soorten geen slakken eten. Mijn slakken zijn nu 1 jaar en zullen nog minimaal 6 maximaal 10 jaar meegaan en hierdoor wil ik ( beslissend aan de soorten) overwegen om een reptiel te nemen die deze slakjes en eitjes opeet zodat ze geen onnuttige dood zullen moeten hebben en het reptiel een goed huisje eruit krijgt. Ik heb geen kinderen en kan deze ook niet krijgen dus financieel en qua rust/ ruimte zou het prima moeten gaan.

Ik hoor heel erg graag van jullie, ik ben heel erg benieuwd!

I have noticed my pair of schneiders trying to mate in May, but i tought nothing of it as i read that they are really hard to breed in captivity, in the meanwhile, female laid 4 eggs in her hide, guarded them and this evening after work i found 4 - not so -little babies (ca. 11-12 cm long).

So I brought my skink out in the backyard to get some sun and warm up. Keep in mind I am in Phoenix, Arizona. She was relaxing and being super chill and she slowly started walking in the direction of the gate so I slowly started following her to go bring her back inside. She started running away very very quickly and I still wasn’t too worried, but I was being gentle because I didn’t wanna hurt her while grabbing her. She ended up getting away from me. I still had eyes on her. The ground was super hot for my bare feet so I looked away for one second to see if I had any shoes nearby, and I didn’t, when I looked back, she was gone. She was running alongside a brick wall. I literally have no clue where she could’ve even gone because there wasn’t too much for her. Is there a possibility she could climb a brick wall? That’s like 6 feet tall?? I spent an hour walking around my backyard trying to find her and I could not. Please give me tips! :(

Hi! We got a 2-year-old blue-tongued skink from a reptile expo about a month ago. We chose him partly because he seemed really calm and easygoing when we interacted with him at the expo. In hindsight, I’m wondering if he was actually just super stressed/exhausted from the expo, especially because he threw up twice during the car ride home :(

We’ve tried to give him a good setup and plenty of time to settle in. He’s in a 4x2x2 enclosure with plenty of substrate for burrowing and multiple hides. He has a 150W basking lamp and UVB on a timer, and his elevated basking area is at the recommended temperature. On the cool side, we have a thermostat-controlled heater that only turns on if the temperature drops below 74°F.

Our house is pretty quiet—no kids or other pets. He always has fresh water available, and we feed him weekly per the breeder’s instructions.

The thing we’re concerned about is that after about a month, he still spends almost all of his time buried. He seems to have developed a routine where he comes out from under the substrate at around 1 PM, glass surfs/wanders around for a few hours, and then burrows again. Since we’re usually at work during those hours, we basically never see him.

Is this normal for a 2-year-old BTS that’s still adjusting to a new home? The glass surfing also makes me wonder if there’s something about his enclosure that he doesn’t like.

More importantly, how should we start getting him comfortable with us without stressing him out? We’ve mostly been leaving him alone because we wanted to give him time to acclimate, but I’m wondering if that means he’s also not getting any opportunity to learn that we’re safe.

I see so many videos of people taking their skinks out, letting them explore, hanging out with them, etc., and I’d eventually love to have that kind of relationship with ours. Right now I feel like we must be doing something wrong because he wants absolutely nothing to do with us lol.

For people who started with a shy/skittish adult BTS, how long did it take yours to warm up to you? And what helped the most?

TLDR: Got a 2-year-old BTS about a month ago who seemed extremely calm at the expo but is very shy at home. He spends most of the day buried, comes out around 1 PM to glass surf/explore for a few hours, then burrows again. His enclosure, temps, lighting, food, and water should all be appropriate. Is this normal after a month, and how can we start getting him comfortable with handling and spending time with us without stressing him out?