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Sand fish skinks got some care ideas right?

eatinmachine Oct 08, 2005 04:16 PM

I just purchased two healthy sandfish and a cage (and a texas long nose but that's different) at a local reptile show and I got a vision type cage. I am going to get play sand this afternoon and putting a baked rock (to keep any parasites off) in there and putting it in there. And am putting it on my reptile rack which is heated by a mix of heat pads and rope light but I don't have any extra for this cage but might buy some today but am putting a basking light on it. What else do I need?
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thanks Josh

New animals that I need help with are 0.0.2 sandfish skinks,
and 0.0.1 texas long nose luckily eating mice
0.0.1 vine snake
1.1.0 turtles
0.1.0 greek tortoise
1.0.0 ball python
1.0.0 corn snake
1.0.0 childrens python
1.0.0 het for albino san diego gopher snake
0.0.1 sunbeam snake(any help with these guys even when not on a post about them will help thanks)
0.0.1 rosehair tarantula
0.1. black and white kenyan sand boa
some mice
and what ever lizards my vine snake hasn't eaten yet

Replies (2)

eatinmachine Oct 09, 2005 11:38 AM

I set up the cage and am going to setup a pvc thing is the corner for getting water to the bottome of the play sand. One half is about a 65 percent ground corn cob and 35 percent sand (they burrowed immediately) and the other is plain play sand and I have put my ceramic heat emitter (usually on the tortoise but she is fine without it for a day but not too long she has a heat lamp) on them for the night and when I woke up and looked at them one of them was a close as it could be too it. This morning I also put a heat lamp with a 75 watt bulb on them. Both heating elemants are on the side with corn cob because the other side is gonna be damp sand which I read they need, to keep it from becoming too moist. I am going to get more crix today I didn't know I was out at the reptile show. And maybe some super worms and stuff. I read most of my imformation from reptiles magazine. ANy good links would help thanks Josh
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thanks Josh

New animals that I need help with are 0.0.2 sandfish skinks,
and 0.0.1 texas long nose luckily eating mice
0.0.1 vine snake
1.1.0 turtles
0.1.0 greek tortoise
1.0.0 ball python
1.0.0 corn snake
1.0.0 childrens python
1.0.0 het for albino san diego gopher snake
0.0.1 sunbeam snake(any help with these guys even when not on a post about them will help thanks)
0.0.1 rosehair tarantula
0.1. black and white kenyan sand boa
some mice
and what ever lizards my vine snake hasn't eaten yet

nomadofthehills Dec 02, 2005 04:58 PM

get rid of the corn cob.

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