How old is the skink? How often does she feed him? What are the cage temperatures? Did she handle him alot prior?

My skinks are a little over eager at feeding times, often lunging at hand instead of going for the bowl of food. As I have pale skin and I have fed pinkies to my skinks as treats...I expect he thinks my chubby little fingers are pinkies. I often hold my hand in a fist and 'pinch' the edge of the feed dish to put it in the cage..he doesn't lunge at my hand as much when I started that.

Mine are pretty calm once out of the age and handled so I pretty much feel its a mistaken food response. Sometimes to prevent him from lunging out if i am spot cleaning, I just put a roll of toilet paper or the empty tube infront of him. He can attack that instead. It won't hurt his teeth and it won't hurt me.

Sometimes I just take him out and let him sit on the couch when I spot clean. I can keep an eye on him on the couch and change his bedding. I put him in a holding cage if I am doing a full cage cleaning though. Less chance of him getting somewhere he isn't suppose to if I am busy cleaning his cage completely.
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