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hooray!
i awlays get so excited when i find eggs.
this time momma skink was asleep so I took them very carefully and ended up without any bitemarks. She does not take well to my taking her eggs!

I still have one set of 5 incubating, about a month old. Just waiting to see what they do.

I've noticed that with each clutch this year, the females have all shed right before they laid. Coincidence? Or has anyone else noticed this?

Sasha
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3 fire skinks, 1 blue tongue skink, 2 plateds, 2 beardies, 1 mali uromastyx, and a wide assortment of geckos.

My female really caught me off guard and laid, and I found the eggs after it was too late to incubate.

I do have a question for you: how many clutches do they usually lay per year? My girl is either fat or gravid again.

the past two years I have only gotten 2 clutches. This year, however, I am getting about a clutch a month from each female (I have 2 females and 1 male in a 75 gallon tank). There have been times when I thought they were gravid but did not see any eggs, and other times (like with the first clutch this year) that is was a total surprise. Sometimes it is three or four eggs, I was very excited to find six!
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3 fire skinks, 1 blue tongue skink, 2 plateds, 2 beardies, 1 mali uromastyx, and a wide assortment of geckos.

I ment, for the past two years I had only been getting two clutches per year!
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3 fire skinks, 1 blue tongue skink, 2 plateds, 2 beardies, 1 mali uromastyx, and a wide assortment of geckos.

Well, I better watch them then. They eat like total pigs! They are both waiting for me before I even get out to turn on lights.

So how do you know when she has laid. Does she shrink down like other lizards? I wish that I had paid closer attention! LOL!

They do get thinner, but they don't make as dramatic a change as my leopard geckos. What I do is carefully brush aside the top layer of soil. They are usually buried close to where the skinks hang out. Often the female is curled around her eggs, in which case you want to encourage her to go elsewhere while you look. She may come after you for poking around in her nest. I have a nest box that sometimes they use, and sometimes they lay under it, and sometimes they lay under the water dish, and sometimes just very deep neck to their basking rock. So far it has always been on the cool side of the tank. The cool side actually gets the most natural sunlight and they like to hang out there. They do have a 2.0 uvb light but i think the sunlight fools them.
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3 fire skinks, 1 blue tongue skink, 2 plateds, 2 beardies, 1 mali uromastyx, and a wide assortment of geckos.

Well, mine are out in my open air room. It is a big cage with two solid walls and three hardware cloth/screen walls, and they only get screen filtered natural sunlight. The sun spots move around the viv throughout the day. They have a few hours during the heat of the day in which there is no sun on the viv. They mostly bask and beg for crix in the morning and right around sundown, but sometimes, Mr PIG comes out and begs in the middle of the day. lol

I see that you also keep plateds. What species do you have?

I have a yellow lined plated lizard who is missing a leg that i took home when i worked for petsmart some years ago. 'defective' animals are 'adopted out' and since i was the reptile person there that usually ment i got to take them home.

i also have a sudan plated that i got about a year ago from someone on craigslist.

the yellow lined at first woudl only eat superworms and crickets, then began devouring bananas. he likes mushy things, i sneak greens in by choping them up and squishing banana on them

The sudan was kind of thin when he came to me, he had been eating roaches and crickets. He loves fruit, especially if it is red. peppers are a HUGE hit, zucchini is acceted well, too. he gets some crix and mealworms. he is a healthy weight now
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3 fire skinks, 1 blue tongue skink, 2 plateds, 2 beardies, 1 mali uromastyx, and a wide assortment of geckos.