Adam: "I've never thought of myself as a skink guy" Also Adam: first favorite reptile was blue tongue skinks, features pink tongue skinks all of the time to give them more attention, has a video of the top five skinks, and generally is a skink guy.
I've never given much thought to skinks as pets before discovering this channel, but now I'm absolutely smitten with them! Don't quite have the space for a blue tongue, but fire skinks or schneider's skinks definitely have my eye!
They really are . I really want one. I had one about 3 years ago but she passed away after spending most of her life with me. She was a really chilled girl
Can you do reptiles that would be best in the classroom?? I’m a preschool teacher teacher & I’d like to take in one of my beardies. But I don’t know if it would be good
I had a Schneider Skink roughly 10 years ago and I LOVED him! The little dude was my shoulder buddy while I sat and did homework. He was really super friendly, and a dream to handle! I could trust him to run around on my desk, climb up my arm, lick whatever paper I was writing on. They're fantastic lizards, I want another in the future!
reptiliatus sold me on the croc skinks, at least the idea of owning one, since I don't yet, i thought they were so shy you'd never see them, but then I saw the level of interaction he had through tong feeding his and it totally changed my idea of them.
I'm upgrading my leopard gecko to my tortoise's 36x18x12 (who is getting a tortoise table), so I'll have a 20 gallon freed up. This is exactly the video I needed! One thing I love about reptiles is that they grow and you get new tanks and have an excuse to get more reptiles :P
WWR I'm so happy I just got my 1st leopard gecko 🦎 yesterday it's a mack snow and I watched your care guide on them about 10 times the last month to learn from you...I've been watching your videos for a year consistently and I wanted to thank you for your help I've learned alot...great information!!!
Schneiders skinks are very cool. I had one at the nature center i worked at and he was always running back and forth on the front of his tank. Super active, super friendly, and great to handle.
Great list and definitely falling in love with those Schneider skinks for sure. Wait until you see the dart frogs I will be adding in the future months, because you know I love frogs!!!
Please do a care guide! Information about schneider skinks is a bit limited on the internet since they aren't super popular and sometimes what does pop up is about berber skinks. If you made a care guide, that'd be awesome!
Great picks. A few honorable mentions off the top of my head: fire skinks, hognose snakes, thai red rat snakes, butterfly agamas, tiger salamanders (also fire, spotted, and marbled's), viper boas, mantillas, firebelly toads (most toads and frogs really) , long tail grass lizards, and maybe Solomon island ground boas. Its fun to think about
I remember catching and releasing a huge Pacific Ringneck snake once, and it musked on me so bad that my hand stank for DAYS even though I painstakingly washed it.
when I was shopping for my first reptile as a kid almost 15 years ago, I was actually really interested in Schneider's skinks but of course there was next to no information about them and even fewer available for purchase at the time (i ended up going for a fat tailed gecko, which in hindsight weren't even very popular yet back then either) so I put that one on the back burner until a later date, but seeing how much you love yours has 100% reignited that interest and when I've got the space I'll definitely be getting some. I'm going to figure out how to get these guys breeding reliably in captivity too (hopefully lol)
💡 Video idea: reptiles that breed on their own/parthenogenetic reptiles That would be an awesome video for sure. Got this idea because I just recently found out that in very rare circumstances crested geckos can reproduce by parthenogenesis which I thought was really cool. I also own 2 mourning gecko colonies. 🦎
Hey! Just info on the dart frogs! Some do need arboreal space, obviously depends on the species, and do your research 😉 Great video! Also I love the amphibian entries always! ❤️❤️❤️
I caught an adult Oregon Ring-neck along with several babies, ended up with 1 very fat adult by the time I got home. They also will eat baby garter snakes.
I really love Schneider skinks and Chinese cave geckos. I wonder if they'll do great in a bioactive with powder blues or powder oranges with springtails.
This is awesome! I love your videos. My son has been asking me if we can get a pet lizard or snake (we can't have cats or dogs) so this has given me alot to think and research about.
I’m finally building my reptile room got Uromastyx Beardies and a Tegu my fiancé dad does reptile shows and started his own pet store so I just kind of fell into it but your vids show me a lot of stuff Less common here
Your Schneider's skinks sound similar to my Peter's banded skink! Sandile doesn't do the super swimming thing, but he shoves himself under dirt faster than you can say, "I choose you!"
hahaha, my school had video announcements, I was the presenter and editor, I injected so much 2000s hardcore into those announcements! What a time to be alive
literally catching up on comments and headed back down to continue putting down the floor, 2 HUGE enclosures showed up today, things are getting serious
