My Black Friday buy: Fire Skink

Sold for $45, I was able to get the Black Friday deal for $22

Had to coax the little guy out from the substrate:














It will be upgraded to a planted 10 gallon soon. Unfortunately my phone couldn't pick up the baby blue in its tail, but the pictures aren't that bad either. I'm surprised it got used to me so quickly because I was handling and hand feeding it crickets that same day despite it giving the pet store owner a good fight

Dude, She is beautiful! Nice score!

Thanks man! Been wanting one for quite a while and jumped on the deal when I saw it

4/12/2011 pic of my fire skink whom I've named "Fire Fist Ace" (One Piece):



I'll try to get more pics of him, he's a very cool pet and a voracious feeder.

awesome pics, how do you fit all this stuff in your house lol

Fed my fire skink and he's honestly one of the most vicious hunters I've ever seen. He will charge, snatch, and thrash his prey around. Too bad I didn't have my video camera handy, but these pics through the kritter keeper will have to do

What is happening in these pics is he's underground and after I drop in the roach, he will sense the vibrations. Then he'll slither underground (pretty cool to see the substrate move like that) to find the prey item and lunge out to grab it. If he's successful, he will smash the life out of it from side to side. He also has a pretty nasty bite! Talk about biting the hand that feeds you lol

Wow the little guy sounds awesome so he bit you then? Would love to see a vid if this sounds so cool.

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Wow the little guy sounds awesome so he bit you then? Would love to see a vid if this sounds so cool.

You want to see a vid of HL gettin' bit?? Just kidding! I know what you are saying and I got +1 on it, I'd love to see a feeding vid! Very handsome guy you got there. He might be able to sell more insurance than the gecko!
Love the pix, thanks for sharing

Hahaha yeah and that why not lol

Hahaha sure, I'll get one for you guys Lol he's much cooler than the gecko

Very nice. My friend just bought an iguana its about 4 weeks and its already huge.

iguana me thinks is the worst lizard to buy if you can t afford the equipment...and even if you have the money, prefer varanus i dont know..i really dont like iguanas

back to the topic: that lizard look crazy hehe nice one any breed in the future??

Cool skink love the red on him