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Followup to two threads below.

The other four eggs hatched a few days later so I
now have six babies!

I've gotten mine to eat pinhead crickets (plus a few that
are slightly larger), flightless fruit flies, teeny roli
polis and at least one teeny earthworm.

As far as things to purchase, I'd start with the pinhead
crickets. Only problem with flightless fruit flies is that
they CAN climb enclosure walls.

>>Only problem with flightless fruit flies is that
they CAN climb enclosure walls.
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OK, I messed up again

I hope you don't wind up with a houseful of fruitflies . Congrats, by the way. Put up some pics of the babys when you get a chance

Quig
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Finally got some pics together.

The top photo was taken on the day the last four hatched, a week and a half ago and the bottom photo was taked a couple of days ago.

And they're fighting over crickets already . It's to bad they don't keep that blue tail into adulthood. Nice pics.

Quig
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Where can I get some 5 lined skinks?

One trick I have used is too cut up adult crickets (no legs) and feed the pieces to the babies on pieces of fishing line. The attack the "jumping" piece of cricket. This will help to keep them full as many baby insects are hard to keep up with. I also had crickets lay eggs in shoe boxes and move to a new box each week. As the boxes hatched, I added the baby skinks. Good luck, they eat like little pigs. Separate apparent males as they grow.
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James and Vickie Bryan
Bryan Reptiles
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Thanks for the tips!

While they are doing well with very small crickets and fruit flies, they are going through them at a high rate of speed, so this might be a way to use somewhat larger crickets that I have to buy for my other herps.

I started out with six and a couple of weeks ago I found one dead with the tail completely gone. Could have that been a fratracide? I didn't find the tail anywhere.

Since then I have separated them into a group of three and a group of two. How much to I need to warry about agression at this age? I saw one seem to attack another smaller one a few days ago. Should I put the smallest one by himself? They do seem to keep each other company at times.

Thanks for any info!