I've bred these for 43 years. They are so adaptable, it's not funny. They love climbing, digging but don't disturb growing plants. They are beyond friendly. They lose their fear of people very quickly. They don't need to hide at all. They seem to crave interaction. I love them. West Coast of Scotland here btw!
They are just look like sand version of loach. So cute and easy to handle(In my case. Especially compare with Sandfish skink, they are just so easy.)and care. And also they actually show themselves a lot when they're in cage. Not just keep hiding in sand but playing on their toys. My favorite lizard.
I don't think I've ever seen a reptile taking a nap. While you were talking about how great inks art he was nodding out. I love that. That means she was relaxed. I too love a blue tongue skink and that's thanks to you Clint!
I got one of these cuties recently and I can say not only is it fun to watch it move around, but it LOVES basking! Very entertaining no need to handle it :)
This comment is unrelated to this video. I just had my first run in with mites in twenty years of keeping a variety of reptiles and freaked out. I did a lot of reading and watched a ton of videos, and realized you guys don't have one. That would be awesome because I'm willing to bet that it would become the best mite prevention/treatment video on RUclips. Thanks for all that you do!
So glad I found this video! My ocellated skink that I got a month ago just had babies. So glad to know they love being in a community, I was pretty nervous about having to buy extra tanks lmao
@@lizpurnell8549 yes! So far no problems, the biggest issue has to be food distribution. So definitely putting out a full dish of food (veggies/boiled eggs/fruit/wet dog food) this makes it easier for all of them to eat
I've wanted these skinks since I saw this video like a year ago. I finally got a trio from a breeder and I'm so excited to start breeding them myself and get them out to other hobbyists. They're SO CUTE!!!
Skinks are such wonderful little beasts. I have an idea for you! I'm not sure whether there's a feature already that does this, but I would love to see who the current champ is in each category! Who holds thr highest overall rank for snake, skink, monitor, agamid, iguanid, land turtle, water turtle, invertebrate, etc. Possibly a once a year category champ list video, or a playlist with the current champs? Just an idea. I love the format of your videos, and am constantly blown away by the variety of amazing animals you bring to light. I truly appreciate all the hard work you and your team do to make this possible. And Anthony along with all the folks who support the channel and reptile room to keep this awesome dream moving forward. Love y'all!
It's funny that many skink species are anti-social, because that family also includes things like the Shingle-back (which pairs for life) and the Australian spiny-tailed skinks (which form family groups).
Clint i gotta say, you are my favorite youtuber. You dont seem bored or like your putting on some act. I love watching these videos, and you radiate enthusiasm. You have really given me motivation to have fun and keep some herps. Also i mean this as a compliment, but you kinda look like a gecko haha. You have put so much effort into this channel, im glad your channel is doing well! Im exited for future videos.
at 3:41 when clint lifts the -invasive- versatile travel noodle off his hand and it flails it's itty bitty arm to try to will clints hand back? precious.
Hi Clint. Love the video. I've enjoyed my Ocellated Skink for 30 years now. Yes 30 years! His/Her? Name is "Slick". Handleability more like negative 2 LoL. Tough as nails. Mine enjoys a bioactive setup with live plants. It eats lots of greens and fruits with the occasional mealworm or silkworm and cricket.
I really appreciate that you wear a mask whenever the cameraman comes nearer to you for better close-up shots :) It's a very responsible thing to do, and sets a great example for those watching. Great video as always, thanks for sharing such a nifty animal!
@@ClintsReptiles I'm in Abu Dhabi, and they used to roam in a small area by a beach. Sadly they're gone now, although I do have geckos and jumping spiders in my garden!
I love ocellated skinks. You used to see them all the time at pet shops in the 90s. I had one for years and then it escaped and I never saw it again. Fast forward 25 years and I found some cbb for sale. Scooped them right up. They are awesome animals and get used to you to the point where they take food from your fingers.
I've had one of these little guys for a while now, and tbh you were NOT joking about them hating being handled lol. I cant hand feed him at all! I have to let crickets and beetles and mealworms loose in his terrarium (often injured to slow them down) so he can hunt by himself when I'm not around. I'm working on getting him more used to me, but I can tell it's going to take a while. Occelated skinks are so cute and such fascinating pets, but theyre very skittish and-- in my experience-- require a lot of patience!
One of my cats found one in our yard. I live i Greece, Athens. After some days my cat brought me one more without a tail. I keep them both together. We have no mountain close here and my yard has only flower pots. No soil on the ground or any trees. They were a nice gift for my collection!
Have you heard of Northwestern Alligator lizards? Small cuties. I have a wild caught and she is such a sweetheart. Her name is Lizlord and she does excellently in captivity. They look like itty bitty skinks
Hi Clint! I just got my Brazilian Rainbow Boa girl earlier this year, so when I saw the BRB on your livestream yesterday I was so excited! I can’t wait for the BRB video, my girl Keshet and I will be waiting! Also my veiled Karma has surgery Tuesday, I hope it goes well! Your videos also have inspired me to use the should we take reptiles out of the wild for the pet trade? As a topic for my global perspectives research paper. I hope you keep doing what you are doing because these videos are the best on the platform! Stay safe!
Back in the 90's I had one of these skinks. I kept it with my Leopard Gecko group, and I only ever seen it when I put insects in at night, as it was under the sand most of the time.
I LOVE my ocellated Skinks! I have 8 in one group and also a group of juveniles (about 18). They love wet dog food and fruit gecko diet. I agree wholeheartedly, they should be more popular! I have my set up with cork tubes and barks. They hide under the cork and chase each other and bugs through the tubes. Everyone needs a stinkin skinkin awesome occelated skink! (or 8)
When i bought mine the moment the enclosure door opened (they’re vertical doors) he flew out the cage and was running around the store; all the employees in the area were trying to catch him…took about 20 minutes…they’re crazy fast its kind of scary. Good to know my Jasper is an athlete!
Sounds kinda similar to mourninggeckos in care and colony, but i enjoy my new mourninggeckos so much more than most skink,but maybe that changes overtime, thanks to you for showing these beatifuel animals.
One of my locally owned pet store have these so I decided to look into them since I have an empty enclosure. And i really want a lizard species that I can cohab.
Here in around where I live in Florida we have large 5-lined skinks. They climb the stucco on the house. Though I have heard they are not great because they are poisonous. Though I have caught smaller ones that I've handled with no issues.
Excellent video as usual! I'd honestly never heard of these. I hope the hobby gets filled with an even greater variety of happy, captive-bred skinks. Mariah also was engaging, she makes a skilled host!
I thought I had seen these out an about living free. Not as often as an anole ( they are adorable and everywhere) but when I go to the park boom there is the skink!
Reptifiles is awesome, the only place I have been able to find information that applies to my Gold Tegu, Thank you so much for your work! And yes, as of recently there is a guide for the oscillated skinks, which I am currently practically memorizing as I have the opportunity to purchase an established enclosure with 5 tenants, so I need to know as much as I can before decision time. 😀
Clint please look at the schneider skink (eumeces schneiderii) they are related to fire skinks but a way better personality and not skittish not only do they get a decent size and are super affordable, they also have personality and climb like a green tree skinks, move and have a face like leopard geckos, jump like crested geckos, look like tokay geckos, chase food like monitor lizards, and best of all they are skinks.Also they love to go onto your head.
Clint! Love your videos, been a fan for feels like years! I recently got the obvious best pet reptile, a blue and gold macaw. If you ever do a video on macaws I would gladly let you use her. Shes still a baby but an absolute sweet heart. Captive bred, used to people
I had a very similar Sun Skink...they look cute...but I used to feed mine Anoles! They are extremely fast and aggressive little guys! Not expected when you are most aware of Blue Tongue Skinks. I never handled mine, because it was so fast I knew if it got loose it would be nearly impossible to catch again.
What a great website. Looking up info on my snake and BT skink. I was thinking clint had superhuman skink holding powers, but I guess some of that is editing. But I really do like skinks too. 5-lined skinks are my favorite, but that might be because I spot them in the wild sometimes.
These little bamsticks were everywhere in Malta. Sitting around ant nests under tarp, they lived on sandy dirt with dry plant material on top in ambient heat. They didn’t burrow, I always seen them under the plant material or sheets of metal, or tarp. Even when chased they never dug the dirt up and each one had a solid territory never leaving their area. Fun dudes to catch aswell you had to cup them or they would slide away, the musk wasn’t smelly either.
Woah this was a lizard I honestly didnt know existed! Always brilliant to learn of a new skink especially such a beautiful little creature. It sounds odd but thats a skink that looks the most like a skink that Ive ever seen. And those can be found in Great Britain?! Ill keep my eyes out then 😉
These things are so tough that i know of quite a few people who keep them outside most of the year here in the UK where temperatures often go down to -5c in late autumn.
"I don't know if you know this about me, but I love skinks"
Yeah Clint, im pretty sure you love literally anything that breathes. Never Change
"Even skinks hate skinks". Ya, no kidding. They've got such toxic personalities they don't even like one another.
They look as if a blue tongue skink, a weasel and a worm had a baby! They look so adorable!
Facts!
I’m going to add legless lizard to that too! The shiny, ultra smooth, pvc pipe-like body really reminds me of legless lizards
Ahahah I was going to chide you for missing the chance to call them skinkin' rad but you managed to fit one in!
I'd totally watch Clint talk about a tank full of dirt.
Dirt: the best pet substrate?
Insert Brian Regan “cup of dirt” bit 😂
@@slickmullet3891 “I’ve got a jar of dirt!”
loose, the best pet reptile damager?
"Skinking rad"😂 love it!
Future shirt idea?
“Adorable little skinkers...” too funny 😂
Me, having a mental breakdown in my room at 5 am: :(
Me now: :’)
Glad we could help. Skinks make any day better :)
I’m glad you’re doing better now! I hope you feel even better soon. Times are tough, but we are all in this together. Sending all my love 💕
God this is relatable. I always turn to Clint's videos when im having a rough day.
@@wubby5315 same, Clint just always is there to save the day and he doesn't even know it most of the time
Same. Coming here really takes me somewhere else for a few moments and helps relieve stress.
“This is ideal.” - me when things are not ideal
They look so cute! Since they live in what used to be the Roman Empire, you should name him Emperor Conskinktine
I approve of this message!
Found the name for my next skink! I also really like “little skinker”
skink kong?
Thats a grea-
*looks at your profile*
WHAT THE FRIC
All hail our new Emperor!!!
I’ve had my eye on this species for quite some time...I want an ocellated skink community at some point. Thanks for the excellent video!
I've bred these for 43 years. They are so adaptable, it's not funny. They love climbing, digging but don't disturb growing plants. They are beyond friendly. They lose their fear of people very quickly. They don't need to hide at all. They seem to crave interaction. I love them. West Coast of Scotland here btw!
Are they more burrowers or?
@beastboy6799. They do make burrows but like to be out and about.
They are just look like sand version of loach. So cute and easy to handle(In my case. Especially compare with Sandfish skink, they are just so easy.)and care. And also they actually show themselves a lot when they're in cage. Not just keep hiding in sand but playing on their toys. My favorite lizard.
"It's horrifying but wonderful"
-Mariah
you know handleability is low when the lizard is in a tank
Clint! We need t shirts that say "Skinkin' Rad!"
These guys have been top of my list for a while now. Glad you’re finally doing a video on them!
I don't think I've ever seen a reptile taking a nap. While you were talking about how great inks art he was nodding out. I love that. That means she was relaxed. I too love a blue tongue skink and that's thanks to you Clint!
Skinks look like either really buff or really fat snakes that skipped leg day every day. And are the definition of speed
I got one of these cuties recently and I can say not only is it fun to watch it move around, but it LOVES basking! Very entertaining no need to handle it :)
This comment is unrelated to this video. I just had my first run in with mites in twenty years of keeping a variety of reptiles and freaked out. I did a lot of reading and watched a ton of videos, and realized you guys don't have one. That would be awesome because I'm willing to bet that it would become the best mite prevention/treatment video on RUclips. Thanks for all that you do!
6:04 awwww that blink it melts me...
Just discovered this channel and I LOVE your enthusiasm!
So glad I found this video! My ocellated skink that I got a month ago just had babies. So glad to know they love being in a community, I was pretty nervous about having to buy extra tanks lmao
Hi! Mine just had babies today! Are you keeping the babies with the parents?
@@lizpurnell8549 yes! So far no problems, the biggest issue has to be food distribution. So definitely putting out a full dish of food (veggies/boiled eggs/fruit/wet dog food) this makes it easier for all of them to eat
I've wanted these skinks since I saw this video like a year ago. I finally got a trio from a breeder and I'm so excited to start breeding them myself and get them out to other hobbyists. They're SO CUTE!!!
Skinks are such wonderful little beasts. I have an idea for you! I'm not sure whether there's a feature already that does this, but I would love to see who the current champ is in each category! Who holds thr highest overall rank for snake, skink, monitor, agamid, iguanid, land turtle, water turtle, invertebrate, etc. Possibly a once a year category champ list video, or a playlist with the current champs? Just an idea. I love the format of your videos, and am constantly blown away by the variety of amazing animals you bring to light. I truly appreciate all the hard work you and your team do to make this possible. And Anthony along with all the folks who support the channel and reptile room to keep this awesome dream moving forward. Love y'all!
That's a really good idea!
It's funny that many skink species are anti-social, because that family also includes things like the Shingle-back (which pairs for life) and the Australian spiny-tailed skinks (which form family groups).
Skink are my favorite. So beautiful and glossy little critters.
Thank you for showing so many less common lizards
Clint i gotta say, you are my favorite youtuber. You dont seem bored or like your putting on some act. I love watching these videos, and you radiate enthusiasm. You have really given me motivation to have fun and keep some herps. Also i mean this as a compliment, but you kinda look like a gecko haha. You have put so much effort into this channel, im glad your channel is doing well! Im exited for future videos.
at 3:41 when clint lifts the -invasive- versatile travel noodle off his hand and it flails it's itty bitty arm to try to will clints hand back? precious.
Such a cute little creature.
Yeah I'd show off my tegu to everyone as well if I had one haha
They're just too amazing!
When Clint was describing Florida and Arizona, all I could think was how he hasn't been hired to write their state slogans...
I have an ocellated skink! I never see them anywhere, they aren't super common, but they are lovely!
i know this video was made a bit ago but im 100% with you about loving skinks
Hi Clint. Love the video. I've enjoyed my Ocellated Skink for 30 years now. Yes 30 years! His/Her? Name is "Slick". Handleability more like negative 2 LoL. Tough as nails. Mine enjoys a bioactive setup with live plants. It eats lots of greens and fruits with the occasional mealworm or silkworm and cricket.
Hi!! I’m korean!!! Clint’s Reptil love!!!
That's so cool! Thank you :)
I really appreciate that you wear a mask whenever the cameraman comes nearer to you for better close-up shots :) It's a very responsible thing to do, and sets a great example for those watching. Great video as always, thanks for sharing such a nifty animal!
I’d love a copy of that gorgeous scale pattern… guess it’s time to take my little lizard buddy down to Skinko’s!
im literally getting one tomorrow! im so excited
I used to find these around my area! So glad you’re covering this species!
Where was that??
@@ClintsReptiles I'm in Abu Dhabi, and they used to roam in a small area by a beach. Sadly they're gone now, although I do have geckos and jumping spiders in my garden!
Skinks are so fun. I had one growing up. Thank you so much for this video!
Of course!
I love learning a new thing every time I watch one of these videos
You're the reason we make these videos :)
This is one of my favorite pet lizards ever❤️
I watch these videos now just for your enthusiastic personality keep up these nice videos
I love ocellated skinks. You used to see them all the time at pet shops in the 90s. I had one for years and then it escaped and I never saw it again. Fast forward 25 years and I found some cbb for sale. Scooped them right up. They are awesome animals and get used to you to the point where they take food from your fingers.
Oh how cute! Very skinkin’ rad and thank you for introducing me to Reptifiles!
Of course!
There are some situations where I have questionable feelings about wild-caught, but this is an instance where it makes a lot of sense.
Having worked all day it was good to see this video
I've had one of these little guys for a while now, and tbh you were NOT joking about them hating being handled lol. I cant hand feed him at all! I have to let crickets and beetles and mealworms loose in his terrarium (often injured to slow them down) so he can hunt by himself when I'm not around. I'm working on getting him more used to me, but I can tell it's going to take a while. Occelated skinks are so cute and such fascinating pets, but theyre very skittish and-- in my experience-- require a lot of patience!
One of my cats found one in our yard. I live i Greece, Athens. After some days my cat brought me one more without a tail. I keep them both together. We have no mountain close here and my yard has only flower pots. No soil on the ground or any trees. They were a nice gift for my collection!
In Crete we have them too, I've seen them everywhere from beaches to city parks
here in malta (a small island in the meditteranean) you can find wild ocellated skinks running about in the wild often
I gotta admit this is the first reptile to appear on this channel that i have never heard of before now
Saturday Morning. Clints Reptiles drops a video today is going to be a good day.
Every Saturday is a good day :)
Touche!
@@ClintsReptiles all Saturdays are good days, but they are much better when you upload :D
Have you heard of Northwestern Alligator lizards? Small cuties. I have a wild caught and she is such a sweetheart. Her name is Lizlord and she does excellently in captivity. They look like itty bitty skinks
Hi Clint! I just got my Brazilian Rainbow Boa girl earlier this year, so when I saw the BRB on your livestream yesterday I was so excited! I can’t wait for the BRB video, my girl Keshet and I will be waiting! Also my veiled Karma has surgery Tuesday, I hope it goes well! Your videos also have inspired me to use the should we take reptiles out of the wild for the pet trade? As a topic for my global perspectives research paper. I hope you keep doing what you are doing because these videos are the best on the platform! Stay safe!
Thank you so much! I'll be pulling for Karma :)
I wish karma good luck soapy dragon!!!
@@jozzemexure5374 thank you!
I’ve never seen this species before! Thanks for the awesome video!
You are like the bob ross of reptiles I love it
i love this little guy🥺
Me too!
Back in the 90's I had one of these skinks. I kept it with my Leopard Gecko group, and I only ever seen it when I put insects in at night, as it was under the sand most of the time.
Wow. How care guides have changed over time 😂
ayyy i love skinks too man! some of the best animals on earth!
They're just so special!
Thank you for posting this lol but yes Clint I love skinks💙🦎💙
I have always loved your passion for reptiles and look up to you!! You’ve helped me so so much through the years :D
I think if I lived in Utah and had you as a Dr Professor I'd never want to leave the class
I LOVE my ocellated Skinks! I have 8 in one group and also a group of juveniles (about 18). They love wet dog food and fruit gecko diet. I agree wholeheartedly, they should be more popular! I have my set up with cork tubes and barks. They hide under the cork and chase each other and bugs through the tubes. Everyone needs a stinkin skinkin awesome occelated skink! (or 8)
Hi! Do you allow the babies to stay with the adults? I have a colony of 4 adults and just found 2 babies in the tank!
@@lizpurnell8549 i take them out. After a few months the older babies are big enough to bully the new babies Congrats on your babies!
Amazing video, and you should make a video of chuckwallas!! That's would be great
When i bought mine the moment the enclosure door opened (they’re vertical doors) he flew out the cage and was running around the store; all the employees in the area were trying to catch him…took about 20 minutes…they’re crazy fast its kind of scary. Good to know my Jasper is an athlete!
Sounds kinda similar to mourninggeckos in care and colony, but i enjoy my new mourninggeckos so much more than most skink,but maybe that changes overtime, thanks to you for showing these beatifuel animals.
Clint, I saved a garter snake from a cat today and I used your advice on how to handle it. I was able to safely release it too so thank you.
One of my locally owned pet store have these so I decided to look into them since I have an empty enclosure. And i really want a lizard species that I can cohab.
Here in around where I live in Florida we have large 5-lined skinks. They climb the stucco on the house. Though I have heard they are not great because they are poisonous. Though I have caught smaller ones that I've handled with no issues.
I saw other comments, and I agree!! We need some "Skinkin' Rad" Shirts!!!!
Excellent video as usual! I'd honestly never heard of these. I hope the hobby gets filled with an even greater variety of happy, captive-bred skinks. Mariah also was engaging, she makes a skilled host!
Didn't she do a great job??
I thought I had seen these out an about living free. Not as often as an anole ( they are adorable and everywhere) but when I go to the park boom there is the skink!
Many people all over the world have this experience.
"Eh, this lizard is okay, I guess." - Something Clint has never, ever said. ;)
Tong feeding is probably the best style of "handling" for these scaly worms
Very true.
Cricket: just walking around enjoying life. sees ground moving hmmmm
Ocolated skink: jumps out of the ground
Cricket: aaahahahahhahahahah ded
Reptifiles is awesome, the only place I have been able to find information that applies to my Gold Tegu, Thank you so much for your work! And yes, as of recently there is a guide for the oscillated skinks, which I am currently practically memorizing as I have the opportunity to purchase an established enclosure with 5 tenants, so I need to know as much as I can before decision time. 😀
Hey those skinks look really cool
Agreed!
Clint should showcase the Angolan python like if you agree
At this rate you'll get that video by 2026
Peters Banded Skinks are communal too, still want to try and breed them, just can’t believe the success rate is so bad.
maybe do a video 'what pet skink is best for me', there are so many kinds I can't decide on which kind to get!
Clint please look at the schneider skink (eumeces schneiderii) they are related to fire skinks but a way better personality and not skittish not only do they get a decent size and are super affordable, they also have personality and climb like a green tree skinks, move and have a face like leopard geckos, jump like crested geckos, look like tokay geckos, chase food like monitor lizards, and best of all they are skinks.Also they love to go onto your head.
Next reptile to review - Perentie - just like a Komodo dragon only smaller and Australian.
Clint! Love your videos, been a fan for feels like years! I recently got the obvious best pet reptile, a blue and gold macaw. If you ever do a video on macaws I would gladly let you use her. Shes still a baby but an absolute sweet heart. Captive bred, used to people
Clint, tell me if you've heard this before. You are the Mr. Rogers of the reptile world. Thank you.
Yea people call him Bob ross, steve Irwin and mr. Rogers
My local pet shop had one of these in just the other week. He was skinkin rad and i couldent agree more about the handeling lol, learned the hard way
This needs to become a thing :)
I had a very similar Sun Skink...they look cute...but I used to feed mine Anoles! They are extremely fast and aggressive little guys! Not expected when you are most aware of Blue Tongue Skinks. I never handled mine, because it was so fast I knew if it got loose it would be nearly impossible to catch again.
Crazy
Hi Clint I'm from Greece and I have them in my garden and they are so cute and I also have a pair
Wow it looks like it ended up smack dab right between legless lizards and, well, legged lizards
You guys need to do cunningham skinks. They live in colonies
What a great website. Looking up info on my snake and BT skink. I was thinking clint had superhuman skink holding powers, but I guess some of that is editing. But I really do like skinks too. 5-lined skinks are my favorite, but that might be because I spot them in the wild sometimes.
I would like to recommend a review of the American Alligator Lizard. Here in San Diego, we have our own Sub species
Hmm, so tempting, I'll have to get some of these if I can get a good deal on em.
Maybe I should contact my grandpa in Arizona and get him to catch me some.
These little bamsticks were everywhere in Malta. Sitting around ant nests under tarp, they lived on sandy dirt with dry plant material on top in ambient heat. They didn’t burrow, I always seen them under the plant material or sheets of metal, or tarp. Even when chased they never dug the dirt up and each one had a solid territory never leaving their area. Fun dudes to catch aswell you had to cup them or they would slide away, the musk wasn’t smelly either.
So cool!
woah i’m early- hi clint, love your videos :) it’s such a shiny smooth lizard, i’ve never seen a reptile that smooth lol
Top of the mornin' to ya! Thank you so much!
Clint's Reptiles you responded :) thank you for being my inspiration to be a herpetologist! you’re pretty stinkin’ rad
I'm getting a corn snake because of you ( might name it clint) good luck with your reptile room opening
Woah this was a lizard I honestly didnt know existed! Always brilliant to learn of a new skink especially such a beautiful little creature. It sounds odd but thats a skink that looks the most like a skink that Ive ever seen. And those can be found in Great Britain?! Ill keep my eyes out then 😉
They're skinkin' rad!
Wow! Awesome Skink!
Right??
We had one for a short time, we named it Sylvester...about a week or two after getting "him", he gave birth...lol
Do you think you can do an episode on steppe runners? They're super fun looking lizards and I think it would make a great video!
These things are so tough that i know of quite a few people who keep them outside most of the year here in the UK where temperatures often go down to -5c in late autumn.