I got me a nice tank for a pair of fire skinks. A nice dirt/sand mix that's 6" deep for 2/3rds of the 40 gal flat tank, and then rises to 9" for the last third. Several pothos, an english ivy, some draonea grasses, and even a purple passion plant. The dirt is inhabited by several dozen little worms that eat and break down any skink crap, a whole nice self cleaning set up. The whole thing looks all nice and natural, untill you get to the water dish, which is a 1 gal tupperware dish, taking up quater of the lower level.
I want to improve on this, make it look better. My current line of thinking is to make a mini-lake feature into it. I would like to keep it as low matanence as the rest of the tank, so I'd probaly toss a water plant or two into it, and I'd like for a moderatly largish snail or two, and maybe some kind of guppies or other little fish. This finaly brings me around to the question;
Will fire skinks eat/attempt to eat fish and/or snails out of the "lake"? If they do do this, would it cause any harm to them? If not harm, would a bit of "seafood" mixed into the diet acutaly help with the variety it offers?
Asmodea Drey'Haus
