I might be able to help you with the ground skink. Mine started out in a 70 gallon fully planted terrarium complete with rocks and branches and all kinds of stuff and stayed buried about 99 per cent of the time. So I moved her into a 70 liter tub. Which cost me about fourteen dollars at Target, gives her more square inches of floor space, and the low top makes her a lot more secure. She's still usually buried, because that's what they do, but it's no longer the least bit unusual to see her sitting out either.

It's 44 inches long, over 19 inches wide, and about six and a half inches tall. Which I admit I worried might turn out to be a little TOO low, but their legs are so short she's fine with it. She slithers around under the moss, she walks around normally on the surface, she has several small logs in there to give her a variety of heights and textures. She likes to sit on/slink over those, and has enough room to prop her front feet up on one, angle herself up, and lift her head high while she looks around.

You know those long flat clear tubs that have the hinge in the middle and the clamps on the ends? That's all I'm talking about. UV's not even a problem; just get a soldering iron and planer and make a whole lot of airholes right under where the lights will be.
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0.1 Coastal Carpet Python (Boots)
0.1 Western Hognose Snake (Bebe)
0.1 Cane Toad (Hengo)
0.1 White-Banded Sheen Skink (Minerva)
1.0 Northern Diamondback Terrapin (Queequeg)

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