keeping garden skinks

[lacemonitor92]

they art hard 2 keep. They shouldnt need a heat light but if u do have one make it up to 30 watts max.
I yousto breed garden skinks and i was succesful. But a mouse broke into their tank and killed them all.
They were also kept wth grass skinks and weasel skinks

[waruikazi]

Why don't you keep Asian house gekoes? They are completely legal to take from the wild because they are not a nayive species and are in fact a pest, assumablly are easy to breed and would probably make just as good a feeders for elapids etc. (i know my children's used to love them).

[mblissett]

I wish I could get some Asain House Geckos..... Never seen them in Sydney though

[jordo]

I doubt its legal to keep AHG in Oz just because a pest it doesn't mean its not an exotic

[lacemonitor92]

i used 2 catch and keep garden skinks. I kept them with weasel skinks and southern grass skinks too.
All 3 of those species successfully breeded but a mouse got into their tank and killed them all

[waruikazi]

Originally Posted by jordo

I doubt its legal to keep AHG in Oz just because a pest it doesn't mean its not an exotic

I didn't think of it that way... I'm sure you wouldn't get in too much trouble for keeping them. But then again if you were using them as feeders and you have them in your area i'm sure you will have no trouble of catching plenty of them.

[lacemonitor92]

i successfully bred these little guys.
I also used 2 breed weasel skinks and southern grass skinks.
Now I breed eastern blueys, blotched blueys, central beardies and cunningham's

[Sdaji]

Originally Posted by waruikazi

I didn't think of it that way... I'm sure you wouldn't get in too much trouble for keeping them. But then again if you were using them as feeders and you have them in your area i'm sure you will have no trouble of catching plenty of them.

Holding live specimens of pest species can often bring severe penalties. Things like carp, mosquito fish etc are good examples (fish are taken more seriously by the government, because pest fish are usually economic pests, while things like Flower Pot Snakes and Asian House Geckoes are only environmental pests and thus, the relevant authorities aren't interested). If you were caught with cane toads down here in Victoria, or somewhere such as Broome, you'd be facing an enormous maximum penalty, but if you were caught with a pet cane toad up in Cairns, they'd probably not bother doing anything more than warning you. I understand that you can keep Asian House Geckoes in NSW if you hold the appropriate license and paperwork, which is as amazing as it is wrong (if they were an economic pest rather than just an environmental pest, there is no way at all the government would allow it, but since the only harm they cause is damage to populations of native geckoes, almost exclusively in urban areas, the government couldn't care less).