Five Lined Skink Care. Offer live crickets and meal worms to your skink and supplement this diet once in a while with reptile pellets or canned reptile food. Parental care ends a day or two after hatching when hatchlings leave the nest.
Do not pull your skink’s tail. The coloration is variable, depending on the age and sex of the skink. Crocodile skinks tend to be crepuscular (active at dawn and dusk).