33 CROCODILE SKINKS! Eggs, Babies, Adults and More! PROJECT MINI DRAGON TOUR 2024 

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Love that you mostly leave them be, only handling them to check up, and that you keep the babies with the parents. So cool to see them living naturalish lives ❤

Hi from East Texas. I’m 76 years old and I have my first tarantulas 3 of them. I am a cancer survivor 2 times and I can no longer take care of a dog. Because the spiders take so little time to feed and water. Because of your RU-vid and others I have become so interested in them. Thank you for all you do to help educate people on this lovely species. ❤❤❤

Thank you for sharing! Im very glad you have so much succes in breeding these little dragon! 🐉🦎

Just dropping into comments to say I really admire your dedication to bringing more of these animals into captive-bred existence, and the benefit to wild populations that will help to bring about. Breeding multiple pairs is clearly hard work and sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes thrilling.

the enclosures are pretty

"But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them." ― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

Ever since you first got these I’ve wanted them! They are so unique and amazing looking! I also love the vocalization!

I love seeing all the dragons. Sappy and Sunny are my favorite. They are so friendly and outgoing. Love your videos. ❤

These are absolutely adorable little dinosaurs. Tfs ❤😊

I just want to say you inspired me so much and your tokay videos made me buy my first tokay and I’m planning to make it a pair after a while :) thank you so much for entertaining us every week

I loved that video, to be able to see all of your beautiful red, and white eye dragon skinks. Love your enclosures. They look like a small forest. Congradulations with the large number of precious babies. Love your channel. Cindy

It's good to see a keeper take such care for the wellbeing of their animals. Much respect for that.

They are all so beautiful. Thank you, Dayyan, for introducing this amazing species to we viewers, and helping propagate domesticated offspring!

Love your videos man, they never fail to make my day. Some of my goals for 2024 is to give my animals more enrichment like live food, live plants taking some of them out of their enclosures and let them hang out with me. Keep doing what you do 👍

Thanx for sharing great video

Found you through Adam's video. Love love LOVE Croc skinks. Your little colonies are adorable and they seem to be doing so well! They're one of my dream animals for sure. They won't be part of my 2024 plans, but I'm hoping to get a leopard gecko in 2024! My husband is super spooked by reptiles, but has said that I can get a leopard gecko because "i guess they ARE kinda cute...". I think a leo is going to be my best bet at warming him up to other reptiles so I am going for it. Small but not too small and fragile, cute, generally pretty handleable (And i'll make sure to get one that definitely is) and they eat bugs which is way less freaky for him than a reptile that eats mammals (Probably no snakes in my future lmao) It'll be my first time keeping reptiles in 18 years and I am STOKED because care has changed so much and there is so much information and so many products now I am going all out on the little guy. Croc skinks 2025? :D It all depends on how it goes with this leo 😂 Thanks for the video!

First, this video was absolutely amazing. Your work with these animals have been the driving force in my inspiration to work with the Uroplatus genus at the scale I have this year. This leads me to the QOTD: Though my goal is of course centered around Uroplatus, and propagating and producing healthy captive bred offspring, I realize that the reason I am where I am is because of content creators like you who have opened this world in front of me. I owe it to my favorite creators, you included, and I have always loved the educational aspect of the hobby. Last year, I wrote a book with the intent of educating, but realized that perhaps I should take a similar approach to that as my inspirers did, and so my goal this year (on a broader scale) is definitely trying my hand at content creation. I had only just started, but the journey has been rewarding thus far. I cannot wait to see where this year takes me and my peers!

Got my tank set up and finally ready to get my mini dragon thank you for the info

OMG!!! They are adorable! Thanks for sharing 😊

You do wonderful work and the terrariums are beautiful.

You've got the best information about these lil guys on RU-vid congrats on all the babies

Please do video about wear you buy and care your feeder insects

Those crocodile skinks are amazing. I like that you basically leave them alone for the most part.

30:40 I never noticed that some of their eyes are that amazing cool grey color, the regular adults look like they have all black eyes

I think I need to get some of these. They are so adorable 🥰

Can’t wait when the 2 videos per week happen 👍🏽. Good video

This year's goal is to breed my cophotis Dumbara and do some enclosure and lighting upgrades

This was great! Really loved watching these dragons, and my newly arrived project T shirt. I’d love to have this species, but struggling to find any captive bred in the UK. If anyone can help let me know 😊

I love how the lemon button fern spreads across the enclosure

Bro you be dropping those things all the time

Love love love 💕

Great video! Those Crocodile Skinks are amazing - and you have an army of them now!!! So QotD: I'm beginning to learn that my Paraguana Peninsula Boa is a lot more arboreal than first believed (or was told). I might experiment with getting him an Arboreal Vivarium setup, and then acquire some sort of lizard pairing for his old 4x2x2, not sure which yet though!

Well done Dayyan! Wonderful to see your success with this project. They are incredible creatures. Interesting convergent evolution to geckos with tail regeneration and vocal chords, but quite unique in their feet glands! May this year hold lots of upgrades, enrichment and improved hobby growth for all! 🎉

That was awesome. I looove a long Reptiliatus video. Do these guys shed?

I really do enjoy seeing your animals.

For this 2024 i want to have one of your red eye croc skink! And go the reptile expo!

What a big impact to use non North American currency as your cash option for your wallet ad. Hits the travellers heart I think! Dunno why I enjoyed that so much lol Back in the day, you peaked my interest in plants, I’d had a couple house plants here and there before, but you made me wonder what the interest was all about, I now have a house jungle, even though I went in a different direction than terrarium plants, you started that interest in me

My goal is to make a thriving desert enclosure, with live plants, for my desert hairy scorpion/blue death feigning beetles tank. I work graveyard shift, and seeing my desert hairy wander around at night always makes me smile.

Awesome update. QOTD: 2024 is going to be all about enrichment upgrades. 2023 was all about larger adult habitats that I completely decked out. So now it's time to find new ways to enrich their lives! 🐍🦎🐢🐸🕷💚

Dayyan, thanks for a fascinating and beautifully filmed tour and congrats on your immense success with Project Mini Dragon! QOTD: to focus on establishing assurance colonies of radiated and Burmese star tortoises in Canada.

This year I will start a Drat frog vivarium, I have built the background using Gorilla Glue. I just need to find plants now and plant them

Hello great video information Dayyan

So lovely to see the wonderful care you provide. I am curious about what dish you are using for the superworms. Could you share a link?

I am just starting my reptile keeping journey, and am building out enclosures for a hognose snake and fire belly toads. Later in the year, hoping to build out enclosures for a leopard gecko and a corn snake.

This year I am building custom stackable enclosures for all of my snakes and lizards!

I commented earlier while watching the video. I just had to come back and say that this was an incredible video! So much time and effort was put into it and I want to thank you for that. I loved it!❤️🦎

This was like watching the discovery channel! Your videos are truly top notch, and you’ve convinced be to get done captive bred white eyed! QOTD: I would like to upgrade two enclosures, and start working with a new tegu

My reptile plans this year: currently working on completing my first bioactive setup for a crested gecko of mine. If it goes well, I'll do more this summer. And I really want a hognose snake, I'm hoping this year I can get one!

I want the baby from Zero and Peach! Hopefully it's destined for greatness

Red eyed skinks are about as cute as they come!!

Hey, you should try feeding bananna to your skinks. My croc skinks enjoy a lil bananna from time to time. Thanks for another amazing video!

I'm glad you made this video. For some reason I thought crocodile skinks were a little bigger and scarier. Lol. These are adorable and sweet! My 2024 goal: i just created my first paludarium and want to get vampire crabs.

Did I miss the transition video from the tanks with water features to these tanks? Both look incredible just wondering why the change? Thanks for the video! Cheers.

Man I love these crocodile skink videos. I found a pair of white eyes for 75% off back in November and between them and your videos, I'm obsessed. I hope they continue to do well. What kinds of ferns are you using in your enclosures? The species I've been trying as I set up their permanent vivarium have not been doing well and I might try and find a different species

I am partial to the White Eye Skinks.❤

Wow! That was such an interesting video. Thank you for taking the time for such an indepth tour. I absolutely love the enclosures with the plants growing over the wood. Amazing enrichment. My 2024 goal is to get this frog room/office complete. It is also going to have a larger upgrade for Loki my bearded dragon.

Amazing animals so technical in your set up brotha keep it up I love it 🔥🔥 big fan

This year I plan to focus on my arachnids, new slings coming and a velvet Spider as well as my tree frogs 17:59

Amaaazing!!

Well, another perfect Saturday! As usual, I throughly enjoyed the video. And while I've seen your very early vlogs which were good from the get-go, it's clear you paid attention to Brian...but with a more 'low-key' presentation style. You both have been beacons to the passion of living things... FLORA & FAUNA! Thank you, Dayyan... Happy New Year 2U2!

Love the tour! Thank you for all your hard work in making such a great video :D

This year I plan on becoming a jumping spider breeder linked up with my local reptile shop, I also plan on getting Viv upgrades for my rescue animals and maybe getting a few more frogs 😁

Love the video! We have a pair with a big water area and filter, have you found they have better success with breeding dropping down to a smaller water source? Always love the content

great vid awesome stuff

Hek ya!

I really loved the update on the crocodile skinks' red & white eyes. I am looking at Euromastic's as my next lizard project. They are finally here in Florida. They are way smaller than the gigantic Egyptians. They get a little bigger than bearded dragons. They come in four colorings. The colors are orange, yellow, green, and multicolor. I am very excited about working with them. They are very curious and easy to work with. They are friendly as well, and a joy to watch them check their world out. If I am lucky enough to get them breeding. That will be a true joy! This is just the beginning. I am working on getting the living spaces together. Then, the next step will be to get the 1st pair. They are priced extremely well, too! Wishe me luck. I hope you all have a wonderful new year in 2024 with many blessings.

Great video, love to see them all. Such cool skinks. Breeding them to get them more available in the captive market is brilliant.

Omg, so many fascinating observations! The possible scenting of things! Didn't know they were so vocal. And pores on their feet to sex them? Didn't know these things! Love this vid! ❤

New skink pair- should it be Drogo to pair with Khalisi (ep?) Her first husband? Thank you for the updatr video! I have been folloeing this since you started and am amazed how much you have done with these guys! Amazing work Dion, you really have had an impact here in domeatic breeding these little guys. As well as helping educate us all about them. Thank you for all you do.

I know the video was a month ago now but…. I had to say that your work with this species is amazing. I have a pair of white eyed ones. I can’t wait to have them have a baby. There aren’t many good places to get all of the proper husbandry. I would love if you could tell me a little about what make you successful in keeping them.

I'm not ready to actually get a reptile yet, but I'm hoping to sell mealworms at my first ever reptile expo this year!

My reptile goals for this year is to probably expand upon what I keep, and to give better care as well as larger enclosures for the individuals I keep

Oh my gosh, I didn't realize crocodile skinks made sounds, they sound so cute, I swear, there are more and more reasons to keep these beautiful animals

Red eyed croc skinks are so cool! Great video and can’t wait for mine to come in!!!

Curious about your goals as a keeper/breeder. Do you think you’ll eventually expand to keep larger reptiles like Aldabra tortoises or Asian water monitors, for example? Or, do you prefer to keep more space friendly species? Do you have a “wishlist” that you work through or just know what you want when you see it?

QOTD:, I just made a giant paludarium it's 120x40x50cm, 240liters or around 65 gallons and I added a pair of alpine newts and emediatly when they came eachother across in the water area the male started to wave his tale wich is tipical breeding behavior, so what I want to do this year is breed them and relaese the offspring back in my garden pond where I found the parents 😊

I am going to upgrade my turtle enclosure for my baby musk turtle.

Thanks for the tour of your Crocodile Skinks, the red eye are one of my top 5 reptiles! Off topic, I’m thinking about Brian Barczyk. I’d love to see a bunch of his favorite reptile keepers try to emulate his contagious enthusiasm in their blogs, to make him laugh. In the same way people have always imitated Steve Irwin…. I hope you think about it. He is in hospice, maybe he’ll see it.

Letsgo brother luv it

great video and hope to see more crocodile in the future.

you've been watching wickens wicked reptiles who was a gecko called cheech

I love this project, I need to get a little bio going and get a pair

To answer the question of the day, I want to upgrade my Blue Tongued Skink to a 4x2x2 and maybe put a pixie frog in it's current tank (40 Gallon)

I was wondering if you are still liking the new Leap Habitats for your mini dragons? This is one of my dream animals to keep and when you set up in the Leap Habitats, it looked more doable for me. Water filters are not my forte.

Love your work! Hope to work with ya on some projects in the future!

im hoping to breed my first ever reptiles! i have a pair of leopard geckos

Awesome video! Do you have any available, I’d like to buy one. 😊

There is one for sale at a local store to me. I have been debating on getting it the past year but I don’t want just one

Crocodile Skinks are so damn cute. A lot of my research on them has come from your channel. Are you able to ship to me here in Florida?🦎🦎❤️

To me I like the natural looking ones more. Great video as always.

They all look so beautiful they are almost unreal looking. Also their little squeaks of outrage are brilliant. So how many of the babies, percentage wise, do you sell and how many do you keep for future breeding?

The next time you get a reptile or invert with orange markings (not a croc skink, lol), you should name it Peach. 😂 I’m imagining an orange baboon tarantula.

Hey Reptiliatus can you please update us on the sand geckos? Awesome video by the way 😊🎉

My goal for this year, well more of a hope is for my pair of Red Eyed Crocodile Skinks to start showing some breeding behaviour and producing offspring. Hopefully, find a male for my other female. Great video, as always 😊

I don't have any lizards. I have 2 sulcatas , 1 Bambam who is 10 n Frankie who is 3yrs old . I like to take them to public parks or schools so they can exercise graze n make some friends.

They're so so cute 💗

Could you also pleeeeeease set up a care giude!

2024 , I’m trying to find two red or white. Eye crocs

Amazing animals with amazing looks and behavior. The only downside is that they are so cryptic, that you practically don’t see them, and their taming needs a lot of patience and still they keep avoiding coming out. Probably not for me, but they are the best skink for a naturalistic enclosure. Congratulations for your patience recording all the scenes perfectly. Why are you using gloves to handle them? My goal for 2024 is to upgrade both of my snakes into larger and more naturalistic enclosures.