You have to give the little guy time to adjust to their new home. I would just set him up in the first cage you used, and limit interaction with him for the first couple weeks. Feed and water and clean up but understand it does take a little while for them to calm down and get used to you and their surroundings.

It is also natural for them to assume anything bigger than them are going to eat them, hence why they become defensive.

I also suggest being careful with how much catfood you offer...should only be just enough to help make all the greens etc stick together (or better yet for young skinks, put all their healthy greens into a blender with a pinch of multivitamin and calcium powder). Instead of crickets, try live superworms or silkworms...the living action of these worms attract their attention more than dead canned insects.

TO ensure they do eat some of their greens, dropping some superworms right ontop of the ground greens, will end up with them grabbing some greens along with the worms.
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