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Offering a range of hiding spots and climbing surfaces is a great way to enhance the habitat for the fascinating broad-headed skinks. To mimic their natural habitat and foster innate habits, rocks, branches, and cork bark may be arranged in a way that provides climbing, exploring, and hiding spots.
Add some life to your broad-headed skink's habitat to make it more interesting to look at and encourage further exploration. When these skinks detect living plants, they may start to climb and explore more. In order to protect broad-headed skinks, it is essential to use only non-toxic plants.
The natural hunting skills of broad-headed skinks may be stimulated via foraging activities. To make feeding more interesting and involve their senses, you may hide little food bits in the substrate or beneath things in the tank.
It is crucial to provide broad-headed skinks with a burrowing habitat. Skinks will participate in their natural digging behavior if you provide a substrate that is deep enough for burrowing and a specific place for it.
One way to get reptiles, like broad-headed skinks, to act territorial is to temporarily place a tiny, unbreakable mirror in their cage.
As they engage with their own mirror, this stimulates their sense of touch.
For broad-headed skinks, sensory diversity is key, so be sure to include patches of slate or flat stones for basking into their cage. These alterations in feel have the potential to pique curiosity and motivate action.
Because of how important scent is to broad-headed skinks, it's a good idea to provide reptile-safe fabrics or things with different textures so the skinks may explore their sense of smell. Before adding them to the cage, make sure the objects are safe for the broad-headed skinks to handle.