CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Is the blue-tailed skink poisonous? How to keep it? Please provide detailed information!

Blue-tailed skinks are not poisonous in captivity, but are slightly poisonous in the wild. Blue-tailed skinks are very adaptable in captivity and can live peacefully with their own species and even with other species. However, care should be taken when mixing males together. It is recommended to place only one male in each cage. The cage can be decorated as you like, using wood chips or bark as the substrate. They are terrestrial lizards, so height is not important, but they should still be kept with some branches or plastic plants for them to climb. Most skinks bask in the sun, so an environment of 75 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit (note: about 23 to 30 degrees Celsius) is very suitable for them, and UV rays must also be provided. Water can be provided in a shallow dish, and it is better if it can be misted once or twice a week.

Food should include all commercially produced (this means not wild) live animals of appropriate size that are clean, and remember to only collect food from areas where you can be sure that pesticides have not been used.

The blue-tailed skink, also known as the beautiful-striped skink in Taiwan, is a species belonging to the skink family. The blue color of its tail and the five vertical stripes on its back are its distinctive features. However, these two features disappear after it becomes an adult. In the Chaoshan area, it is also called the grass dragon. Many people believe that it is poisonous and that being bitten by it can cause death.

This species has been included in the "List of Terrestrial Wildlife with Beneficial or Important Economic and Scientific Research Value under National Protection" issued by the State Forestry Administration of China on August 1, 2000.

Distributed in the area south of the Yangtze River in China, Taiwan, the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, and Vietnam.

This diurnal lizard feeds mainly on insects and lays two eggs at a time. It is a widely distributed lizard.

The blue-tailed skink is not poisonous.

Breeding method: Blue-tailed skinks like to bask in the sun. Generally, an environment of 75 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit is very suitable for them. At the same time, UV rays must also be provided. Water can be supplied in a shallow dish. It is better to spray the blue-tailed skink with water once or twice a week. Food should be selected from all commercially produced living things of appropriate size and must be cleaned, but it must be ensured that there is no toxic residue, so as not to cause harm to the blue-tailed skink.

Features of Blue Tailed Skink:

The blue-tailed skink lives in low mountain forests and under rocks beside mountain roads south of the Yangtze River. It prefers to move around on dry and warm sunny slopes, but is rarely seen in dense grass or plains. In spring, it preys on locusts, debt-avoiding insects, woodlice and coleoptera insects, of which pests account for about 46% of its insect intake.

In summer, the food is more extensive, and the main ingredients are click beetle larvae, woodlice and ants, and the proportion of pests increases accordingly. It emerges from hibernation in late March or early April. It reproduces once a year, laying 5 to 9 eggs in June and July. The eggs are milky white with a slight reddish tint.

Blue-tailed Skink

Origin: Northeast to southeast Africa

Family: Skink

Imported individuals often originate from Ghana, Egypt, Togo, and Nigeria.

This medium-sized skink can reach up to 25 cm in length. The Mabuya (?) species all look similar in appearance. The slender cylindrical body is supported by strong limbs, and each foot has five toes. The head is very pointy, and the tail is long, tapering to a smooth and shiny finish. Overall they are very sleek-looking, agile lizards. The blue-tailed skink has a striking coloration, with five golden vertical stripes on a black background, fading into a blue tail.

This skink is an opportunist. In the wild, it lives in farmland, bushes, and even follows human activities into houses. It is common to find them around human settlements.

Blue-tailed skinks are well adapted to living in captivity, and can live peacefully with their own species and even with other species. However, care must be taken when mixing males together, and it is recommended that only one male be placed in each cage. The cage decoration can be as you like, and wood chips or bark can be used as the substrate. They are ground-dwelling lizards, so height is not important, but when keeping them, some branches or plastic plants should be used for them to climb. Most skinks will bask in the sun, so an environment of 75 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit (note: about 23 to 30 degrees Celsius) is very suitable for them, and UV rays must also be provided. Water can be provided in a shallow dish, and it is better if it can be misted once or twice a week. A most aria should be provided at all times to help with shedding skin. (Should it be kept moist at all times to allow them to shed their skin?)

Food should include all commercially produced (not wild) live things of appropriate size, cleaned, and collected only from areas where you can be sure pesticides have not been used. Overripe bananas & peaches may be taken.

There is not much documented about the breeding of this breed, but unlike other Mabuya breeds, they lay eggs.

Overall this skink is a wonderful addition to your vivarium for color and activity. Although they are a great species to study, insignificant movement of them should be avoided as this may result in the tail falling off, as with other skinks.

It took me an hour to translate. I have noted some places where I am not sure, and welcome your corrections.

Although I don't have a blue-tailed skink, I only spent a few minutes searching for information about it on the Internet. If you already have a blue-tailed skink and are interested in raising one, why do you just ask "how to raise it"? Why can't you search for information yourself instead of waiting for others to help? The same goes for those who ask how to raise a beautiful skink, a water dragon, or a frog eye. These are not species with very advanced raising methods. I hope you can abandon this lazy look and "cheer up and play with reptiles."

Ecological habits: A diurnal lizard that feeds mainly on insects. It lays two eggs at a time. This is a widely distributed lizard. The Pacific blue-tailed island lizard sometimes puts its tail in an 8-shaped shape, which may be part of its territorial behavior to intimidate other lizards.

Morphological characteristics: A small skink, about 10 to 12 cm long, with a black base color and long golden stripes from the tip of the snout to the base of the tail. The long tail is a bright and eye-catching blue-green or iron blue.

Sexually mature individuals have significant differences in body color between the sexes. The body length, head length and head width of adult males are significantly greater than those of adult females. There is no significant difference in the growth rate of body length between the sexes of juveniles, but the growth rate of body length of adult males is significantly greater than that of adult females. Therefore, sexual dimorphism in individual size occurs after sexual maturity. For juveniles with a body length of less than 50 mm, there is no difference in head length and head width between the sexes. When the body length is greater than 50 mm, the growth rate of male head length and head width with body length is significantly greater than that of females, resulting in sexual dimorphism in head size, which becomes more and more significant with individual development. The minimum body length of egg-laying females of Blue-tailed Skink is 69.3 mm. Females with a body length greater than this length all lay a single clutch of eggs per year. The clutch number, clutch weight and average egg weight are all positively correlated with the body length of the female, with average values ​​of 6.4, 2.783 and 0.554 g, respectively. The clutch number has nothing to do with the postpartum state of the female. Blue-tailed Skink females increase their reproductive output mainly by increasing the clutch number and egg size.

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Generally it is non-toxic, but if it is contaminated, it may not be

It might be bad if there are rays or radiation.