Garden skinks in captivity?

[NickGeee]

Before I start this is not a wanted to buy thread.
Does anyone out there keep/breed small skinks such a delicate and garden skinks as pets not as food for a burtons legless or a trouble feeder python? How common are they in the pet trade?
Cheers!

 

[Zipidee]

I kept Garden Skinks, Fence Skinks, Red-throats and Weasels for about 10 years when I was a kid - all wild caught from my garden in Sydney, (but this was many many years ago). Used to feed them moths and blue-grass butterflies I caught around the yard. Very successful. Very easy to keep. They'd brumate over winter and laid eggs most seasons - though I never had babies.

 

[lizardwhisperer]

I had a colony of the little brown guys ( wild caught originally ) as teenager. I raised maggots to feed to them, loved their maggots, liked ant eggs and ant pupae too.
Mine bred OK.

 

[C.Bayo]

there are a few skink breeder's that keep them as well as other small skinks for the love of skinks and not for a food source talk to one of the skink groups

 

[lizardwhisperer]

Mine were kept as very interesting little pets. More people should keep them IMO, they were super and really easy to keep happy and healthy, very little bother at all.

 

[riotgirlckb]

I kept some I found as a kid in old lunchboxes and fed them moths and things I found random bugs and whatever and they all did really well, never had more than about four at a time and always released them after a few months, had one I kept in a small peanut butter or vegemite jar with some holes in the lid, dropped its tail when I caught it and had it soo long its tail grew back almost full length and it almost doubled in size before I released it

 

[OzGecko]

I have a friend locally in SA who keeps and breeds a few types of Morethia and is also working on a couple of other unrelated species. He's completely against their use as food for Burtons and alike.

 

[lizardwhisperer]

I have a friend locally in SA who keeps and breeds a few types of Morethia and is also working on a couple of other unrelated species. He's completely against their use as food for Burtons and alike.

I am too. Despicable practice using little (probably wildcaught) lizards as food for pet lizards or snakes.

 

[NickGeee]

Cheers guys, there must not many people keeping them?

 

[SurrealReptiles]

You might not like it but it is a nessescary thing to keep certain species alive.

Thank God, someone with a little logic.