Cohabing a Pink Tongue Skink and Crested Gecko

[jclaiborne]

Could you explain to me how one would kill the other in only a week without me noticing? These are small babies. Both docile species that could barely even manage to get their jaws around one another. They both have the ability to get away so I see no reason that either would be able to just instantly kill the other reptile without me noticing and violence.

You are severely underestimating the power in a skinks jaws. I have not owned a Pink Tongue, but I have handled them, they are essentially a smaller more arboreal cousin of the blue tongues. A skink can put the hurt on you. Pink Tongues in the wild generally feed on snails. If they can crush a snail shell without issue they will have no problem ripping through the soft skin of a crested gecko. This has been pointed out time and time again to you in both threads you posted.


The cage size you stated is way too small, there is no way you will get a proper thermal gradient in that cage. Even if you get them both as babies the pink tongue will rapidly grow.

You keep mentioning breeding, have you every seen a skink breed? They are brutal, when I put my female in the cage with my male he grabs her by the back of the neck and clamp down, even with their tough scales there is almost always a little blood.

Let me ask you this, you say you are passionate about the animals and care about them. Would you house a ball python with a boa? I mean they are both snakes right, they should get along and be best friends right?

Even if both lizards survive, they will not thrive, all that you are really doing is causing a lot of undue stress on both animals. If the skink does turn and go after the gecko you aren't going to be able to stop anything unit it is too late, one good bite from an adult will likely do enough damage to kill it, and lets be honest if you are having to "save up" to buy two enclosures years down the road how are you going to afford a vet but should something happen.

Everyone has tried to nicely point out the flaws they see to you, and you continue to ignore it. Using a little common sense will get you far in this world.

**oh and on a side note, if you still think we are all idiots over here, why don't you head over to bluetongueskinks.net and create a login there and post your questions, this is a highly concentrated community of skink keepers and breeders from all over the world (all species). Maybe once you get the same response from them you will listen, or you might lecture them about your two months of research....who knows.