A gift from my son's Fire Skinks

Celeste · A gift from my son's Fire Skinks

Here's a page showing/describing Fire Skinks for those of you who are wondering what they look like:

http://www.herpcenter.com/fire-skink-caresheet.html

I'll try to post pictures of the parents at some point, but they are very shy and reclusive.

ftorres

Hello Celeste,
Nice!!!!

Good luck with them.

Now lets talk your female Metallica into giving you a gift too.

francisco

balam

Awesome Celeste. Hope they come through Smile

those are incredibly good looking skinks.

Celeste

ftorres

Hello Celeste,
I am not sure how the cooling down works for the Pokies, but make sure you drop the temps a little bit to stimulate an egg sack.

I will try to find out the proper temps.

francisco

Herpetologyfrk

Congrats! I love fire skinks =]

Celeste

Of that first clutch of six eggs, two went bad. Four are left, and the first of those four just hatched today:

(still waiting on the other three eggs, and keeping all fingers crossed).

And in the meantime, the smaller female of that trio has produced five new eggs:

I *think* she produced them a couple of days ago -- I saw that a lot of dirt had been disturbed in their enclosure, but I didn't get around to checking until today. (It is possible that they were laid earlier, though). One of them looks like it might be bad, but still four good looking ones.

Anyway, WOO HOO!!! I'll post pictures once all four of the first clutch finish hatching. That was 47 days from the time they were laid to the emergence of the first hatchling.

Herpetologyfrk

Awesome!! I wish I could buy one Dx

balam

*YAY*

Best of luck on the rest of the C Wink

ogershok

Yee Haw!! That excellent! I love skinks.

Celeste

All four eggs have hatched now -- will try to post pix tomorrow (have had an exciting night, as one of my Prehensile-Tails just gave birth to twins, too!)

Celeste

Sorry, but this is the best photo I could get -- they're skittish little buggers!