Lia's way sounds perfect. My way is slightly more lazy but the same results. A deep terrarium. 2 inches of potting soil. One side of the tank piled with egg crates torn into 2x2 pieces (easier to bang into the feeding bin). The other side the soil is kept damp and that is where I put fresh greens and compost for them to eat (covered with some bark slabs for them to hide in). I also feed them baby rice cereal mixed with powdered monkey chow and calcium. The cricket sizes are all mixed together, but there are plenty of adults. Also superworms can live in the soil too so I have two kinds of food available. If you use glass terrarium you can put roaches in too if you like to feed those. Basically you have a composting system going on. Keep the soil nice and deep for egg-laying. Also this system does not smell, just smells like fresh dirt. If the greens or kitchen veggie scraps start to smell, just bury them in the dirt or feed them less veggies. For water a plastic peanut butter lid with a rag in it, refilled daily and cleaned often.
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Lisa Rakestraw
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My skinks:
1.1.1 Corucia zebrata (Berman and Joni, baby Charlemagne)
1.2.2 Eumeces schneideri (Kaa, Cochisa and their babies; Mabel)
0.0.4 Egernia striolata

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