A neighbor of mine caught a fivelined skink over the summer and gave it to me a week ago because he could no longer feed it(he's not the brightest crayon in the box). I plan on releasing it again in the spring. I have it in a 10 gallon glass tank with moist peat moss as a substrate, bark and leaves to hide under, a food dish with meal worms in it, and a basking branch where he sits on that is about 6 or 7 inches from a 90w bulb.
He's eaten about 50 of the meal worms in the past week, 30 of those meal worms were eaten in the last two days.
Let me know what I should add or change. Any advice will be greatly appriciated.
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Five-lined skink
teaspoon
Feb 01, 2007 03:40 PM
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ginebig
Feb 01, 2007 05:44 PM
Don't mean to doubt anyones intellegence here, but are we sure it's a five-lined and not a broad head? I've got a five-lined that does good to eat three or four crickets in a day. Thirty mealworms in two days seems like an awful lot 
. All that being said, if he's eating that well I'd say everything else is good ta go. Sounds as if you've got it under control.
Quig
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teaspoon
Feb 01, 2007 06:32 PM
The boy that gave it to me said that it was a five-lined, but he's only ten years old. However, around here, five-lineds are more common.
It didn't eat that much at first. For the first few days, it did'nt eat a thing, (but it was very intrested in the mealworms, it kept licking them)
Its very skittish though, it runs all around the cage if I get too close. How would you suggest going about taming it? I've been herding him onto my hand, but I don't lift him out or he'll get away.
ginebig
Feb 01, 2007 10:13 PM
I'm not really sure they can be hand tamed. They are very flighty by nature. A lot of gentle, short attempts might do it, but I'm sure it will take time. As a rule they're a better display animal than a pet though. Just keep him/her healthy and hope for the best. Have you got a picture?
Quig
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teaspoon
Feb 02, 2007 01:59 PM
sorry, no pictures,I don't have a camera.
It's tan and brown striped, and it looks like it has regrown about a 1/4 inch of its broken-off tail. It's eating well, and I mist it every day, so it should be fine. But should I be dusting its meal worms with calcium? will calcium help its tail to grow back better?
