How to take care of a southeastern five lined skink pleas help!!?

Question

how do you take care of a southeastern five lined skink? like wat do you feed it and how do you give it water and wat to put it in pleas help!!

Answer 1

i have 2 skinks true fire skink and a red sided skink both are about a foot long so id have to say you feed then crickets id get the small ones and as for the habitaqt  i have eco earth its like dirt  get it at the pet store in blocks add water  drain and its good to go they love diggin in it and i have a hollow log  some fake leaves that hang and a water dish they can soak in mine are alot bigger than yours but its the same consept i had  one that was like urs a five lined grass lizard is what they called it so ull be fine with what ive told you good luck. try this website  to get more on it

Answer 2

Sometimes they are called the blue tailed skink. or the red tailed skink.  Did you buy it or catch.  They live in the eastern U.S. and parts of Canada.  A regular 20 gal. tank with lid would be adequate.  Remember they like it moist.  I would definitely add a sterile log cave to hide in.  And then I would never put males together they are very Territorial.  I would purchase some ORGANIC potting soil.   and then a few stones.  If you bring anything from outside in your back yard remember it could have bacteria, parasites, and possibly been exposed to some kind of pesticide.  I recommend buying it, unless you know how to clean everything properly.  I would feed them crickets bought at a pet store,  feed the crickets gut load.  Then just before you feed the cricket to the lizard coat them in "Reptical"  You definitely want to check out wikipedia.org .  Type in Five-Lined Skink