What a fantastic and well researched guide to a wonderful species. I am very happy to see this.

Thank you, I've been keeping Scincopus fasciatus, Peters Banded African Sand Skinks for a couple years, with the idea of breeding them. So far I have been unsuccessful. I keep them in a 2 meter by 1.2 meters (6-foot by 4-foot) enclosure with sand, coco fiber, and Sphagnum moss mixing each per section to try to find what they like. I also provide them a 30 cm by 15cm water dish that is less deep than their hight. They use the water dish nightly, I understand they are desert dwellers, but I am trying everything. They like slightly damp soil just damp enough to grow a plant. They prefer sandy coco fiber than is damp enough to grow a marigold seed (Mirgild from an unknown source it just grew there). I'm in Massachusetts and have not successfully bred them, the humidity is normal since the cover allows free flow of air. The Temperatures are a wide variety I use CHE for hot spots 50 C, to 20 C for cool damp spot. They use the whole enclosure and come to me for food. I would love to know specifically where my animals were caught, but that is impossible since everything is just caught put together and shipped. Even though they were both bought from the same importer, at the same time, my 2 could be brother and sister or genetic subspecies (not likely just written for effect)

Another banger of a video. This man is a wealth of knowledge. PBS, Fire and Great Plains are my favorite 3 skinks.

This is the exact type of information I look for. How are your views so low compared to little kids "care" videos. Crazy world man. Keep up the good work!

I love how docile they are. Poor things. It is sort of a crime to take them from their homes though no?

u have no idea how much i appreciate this video! thank handsome sir

Great video and great to see you mention the research aspect. This is something I've been doing to help us replicate seasonality for all our herps in their bioactive enclosures. We sync our irrigation systems, basking and background heat, and lighting to follow the seasonal curves of their range habitats and monitor trends on MAESTRO data loggers. My next step is wifi/Bluetooth controlled sockets and stats that will allow me to manipulate (and monitor/record) seasonality for a number of habitats from a central hub. It's great to see the research and planning manifest in healthy, feeding, active, and reproducing animals.

Great video!

Great info would love to go further into this topic. I’m currently researching this topic on what I can only think to call a micro scale meaning looking at very specific locations of natural environment

Hey Chaz. another great video. amazing looking skink .

incredible video i really want to breed this guys

Great video bud

I loved the video, just got some, made a quarantine process video for them, the research that you did is a great example of real research, and this was just a great job, my Carrie loves to climb on me, I find it odd, so when I seen yours try and do the same it keeps me thinking that is why they don't look exactly like sandfish

We need to share so much of our knowledge with others as wel, and thank you for doing so!!...please give the heating requirements in both F degrees and C degrees as it’s not always stated and there are fewer manuals to look it up!!....I miss the books a nd lotts of the old writings you used to see, which are now defunct and you can’t find it at all!!.... All of us don’t have a computer!!.....thanks man, love the accent!!❤️❤️

Any known footage of them in the wild

Skinks are fantastic as pets, but please do your reading prior to setting up!!...make your list of all important needs and have fun with them!?,...mine were like dogs!!❤️

Such a great resource Chaz. We got one of these guys from you a couple of years back and we have successful bred once (May 2021). Fingers crossed we can replicate it again next year. 🤞

have you tried Bluey buffet with these? its the blue tongue skink food made by Rapashy.

Do they eat daily, or every three days as I used to feed my blue tongue skinks??

What are there heating requirements?

You think that they would make good tank mates with small tortoises? Lol