Blue tongued skinks are fabulous, I would highly recommend one! They have such expressive little faces, the cock their head and squint their eyes at you with such a suspicious look, they're hilarious. I have a BTS that's about a year and a half, and he's a great guy. I got him thinking that this would be the friendliest reptile imaginable, I even read accounts of them following you around the house. My skink is not like that.

He's never bitten anyone or even "displayed" (when they open their mouth really wide before biting), but he "huffs" (goes "ffffff" at everything I do. Handling him is really simple, he doesn't even move when I pick him up now (he was a little squirmy for the first few months I had him), sometimes he huffs and sometimes he doesnt. People are really surprised to see me outside sunning with a lizard who doesn't try to get away, I frequently lay out in a bikini and plop my skink on my belly to soak up some rays and he loves it.

When my skink sheds he has let me peel skin off his fingertips, tail tip, even around his eye while remaining perfectly still. While he's not the sweet loving lizard I was hoping for, he's still by far the best behaved most people-tolerant reptile I've had. He's pretty easy to take care of, his diet is a little more complicated than the simple snake diet I'm used to (my BTS eats different kinds of greens, berries, tropical fruit, nightcrawlers, mealworms, snails, and the occational pinkie), but I like making his salad mush, and aside from that he's really simple.

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