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I am very interested in getting a small colony of red eyed crocodile skinks (Triolonotus gracilis). Can anyone send me to a good caresheet? Are they communal?
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They are not communual. I tried to keep a pair together and they fought. Other than that they're pretty easy. I was keeping mine on cypress mulch but I had a problem with bugs so I'm going to try peat moss. I use a very large water dish and cork bark for hiding. They eat insect larvae, worms, and insects. They play dead when they're scared but mine is brave enough to sit on my hand. They breed in the fall. That's all I know about that.
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Eryx - All the fun of a boa in a convenient pocket size!

Well, i have been keeping my boy for 15 months already and he is doing great!
First they need a 20l tank, well ventilated with a lid.Then you put inside the tank a large bowl of water.Regular tap water because tribs dont have problems with chlorine.Inside the large bowl of water you put a sponge, a small kitchen sponge that floats because they love to surf on the top of the sponge on the water!lol!
Then you put a hiding place, a tube of towel paper for instance, because they love to hide.Then you put a bowl of mealworms because thats what they love to eat and thats all! Not complicated at all!I didnt put any substrate, only a decorated aquarium plastic paper for decoration covering the bottom.I included also some plastic plants and plastic little frogs only to make his cage more pretty!lol!

Im keeping my boy in the living room on the top of a closet, at room temp.When its not too hot ( 80-85F) i put him in his outdoors cage for half an hour, 3 times a week, in the morning because tribs do need sun light.

Gotta disagree with the breeding season. I just got an egg today with another female about to bust if she doesn't lay soon.
My setup is 3ft x 2ft which houses my 1.2. Cypress mulch bedding is used with copious amounts of moistened spgagnum moss placed in piles throughout the cage. The water dish is 12in x 6in and is countersunk into the mulch. The animals utilize this quite often in the early evening and then again in the early morning.
Various types of hides are provided although they all tend to congregate under the same hide.
I have observed these animals extensively during the evening hours using a red bulb and remaining motionless. I have never observed aggression between any of the animals and have even observed them eating from the same dish at the same time.
I have heard that males will fight if caged together but wonder if the aggression described between male and female may be part of the mating ritual.

They are not communal, they are territorial. Both males and females may injure one another if kept together unless they are kept in a very large enclosure where individuals can defend their own spaces under wood or cork bark.

Well, I am setting them up in an old trigonatus caiman tank. It is roughly 90 gallons, mostly floor space, not too high. I know about visual barriers, numerous hiding places, etc. Do you think a 1.2 would be OK in a setup that size? I planned on making a filtered stream in the middle of the cage with visual barriers made of slate rock, etc. so one skink doesn't chase the others from the water. Is cypress an adequate bedding? I also wanted to use magnolia leaves, buried PVC pipes and cork bark as hiding places.
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1.0 snow corn snake '02
0.1 butter corn snake '02
0.1 hi-red corn snake '02
0.1 CB KY locality corn snake '02
1.1 Texas Baird's rat snake '00
0.1 black rat snake '03
1.1 Het for albino and albino radiated rat snake '02&'03
1.1 tri-color hognose snake '03
1.1 albino striped Cal king snake '01
1.1 black king snake '01
1.1 black milk snake '01&'02
1.1 pueblan milk snake '03
1.1 African house snake '03