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04-02-15, 07:50 PM
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Today's Deliveries
Obtained 1.1 Egg eating snakes (scabra) and 1.1 red eye crocs (gracilis).
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04-02-15, 07:56 PM
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Re: Today's Deliveries
Wow cool snakes!
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04-02-15, 09:08 PM
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Re: Today's Deliveries
Who did you order the crock skinks from?
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04-03-15, 06:38 AM
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Re: Today's Deliveries
Reptile Pets Direct.
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04-03-15, 09:25 AM
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Re: Today's Deliveries
Wow the croc skinks are frigging awesome.
I read up a tat bit on them. Says they can be housed in a 20-25 gallon enclosure, but also says they like to swim and need to in order to prevent themselves from drying out? So do they need a area to swim or just a water bowl to soak?
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04-03-15, 11:56 AM
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Re: Today's Deliveries
The croc skins are amazing. Really unique.
Would love to see some vids once everyone is settled.
Congrats.
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04-03-15, 01:36 PM
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Re: Today's Deliveries
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Originally Posted by pet_snake_78
Obtained 1.1 Egg eating snakes (scabra) and 1.1 red eye crocs (gracilis).
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Great pick up! Very different group of herps. Congrats! 
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04-03-15, 01:40 PM
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Re: Today's Deliveries
The egg eating snakes are awesome, they look really small. Will they eat things other than eggs?
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04-03-15, 06:49 PM
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Re: Today's Deliveries
The egg eating snakes will only eat eggs. I am going to try quail eggs from the supermarket first but if those are too big I may have to get some from one of the local zebra finch breeders. I think they like to climb a bit, one is hiding in some fake plants a couple of inches off the ground now. This species is larger than some of the more commonly offered ones and will end up taking regular chicken eggs with no issues.
One of the crock skinks soaked in a large water bowl, so I'm inclined to believe they need at least a large, shallow bowl big enough for them to get their entire body into. On the plus side, they don't need a lot of heat. I'm told the humidity has he stay quite high, too. I have them on bark mulch to help with the humidity. There's one dry corner just in case, but 75% of it is moistened and one corner is filled with spag. moss in case they want to be really moist. I've also seen them using a hide box and hiding in fake plants. I think these crock skinks are awesome and hope they can get well established in captivity. I bought a pair because I'd like to have more myself and I am hoping if they lay eggs to find some other people to swap offspring with.
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04-04-15, 07:29 AM
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Re: Today's Deliveries
Very cool. I'm not sure if you display your animals, but the crocs would be really cool to show off in a viv with a swampy beach area. 
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04-04-15, 01:49 PM
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Re: Today's Deliveries
They are in a plastic box for right now, once they clear all the tests and 90 days passes, I'll move them into an enclosure.
I can't tell which one it is but someone grabs earthworms when I put them at any crevice opening at the bottom of the hide box.
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04-04-15, 05:58 PM
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Re: Today's Deliveries
What do you look for with the croc in the 90 day quarantine?
Also Will they be able to live I the same enclosure for life?
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04-04-15, 07:47 PM
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Re: Today's Deliveries
From what I've read only one pair of male and female can live together, any other combination must be housed separately. I am waiting to get stool samples to take to my vet to check for internal parasites. I keep everything new coming in inside a separate part of the house just in case there is an issue. Most field collected animals I've received have parasites of some kind or another, sometimes more than one.
The first egg eating snake ate this evening. I was worried that a quail egg was too big but I don't have finch eggs yet and they seemed to settle in really well so I thought I'd try some quail eggs from the grocery store and it worked! I'll throw a second one in there soon and see if the other one is able to eat it, too.
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04-05-15, 07:49 AM
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Re: Today's Deliveries
Next time you feed the egg eaters I'd love to see some pics of that I've been thinking of getting some egg eaters as well
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04-05-15, 09:34 AM
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Re: Today's Deliveries
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Originally Posted by pet_snake_78
The first egg eating snake ate this evening. I was worried that a quail egg was too big but I don't have finch eggs yet and they seemed to settle in really well so I thought I'd try some quail eggs from the grocery store and it worked! I'll throw a second one in there soon and see if the other one is able to eat it, too.
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Awesome!! You should get that on video sometime, if you can.
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