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Scincidae

Black tree skink

Emoia nigraจิ้งเหลนดำหมู่เกาะแปซิฟิก

Traceable. The figures above appear in the page we cite, which we opened on 10 Aug 2026. That means you can check them, not that we have confirmed they are right. tailsandscales.ca

Photograph: Kai Squires · CC BY

Photographed by an observer on iNaturalist and published under a Creative Commons licence; the photographer and the licence are named under the image. It is not an animal of ours, and no animal was handled by us to produce it.

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warm end29–32 °C
cool end24–29 °C
Humidity60–80 %
Diet2–3 days
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Day

Drag the sun. The sheet states a night temperature, so the rail follows it.

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The numbers

Thermal gradient

152025303540 °C
24–29°Cool side
29–32°Warm side
21–24°Night

Day: a real gradient, 29–32°C warm against 24–29°C cool, so the animal chooses. Night: 21–24°C.

Why

Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.

The sheet stateswarm 29-32 °C / cool 24-29 °C / night 21-24 °C

Humidity

60–80%Target RH

The sheet statesTemperature & Humidity: Basking area: 85-90°F (29-32°C) Ambient temperature: 75-85°F (24-29°C) Night temperatures: 70-75°F (21-24°C) Maintain moderate humidity at 60-80%, with regular light misting to simulate forest conditions.

UVB

2–5%required

The sheet statesLighting: Provide full-spectrum lighting with moderate UVB (2–5%) on a 12-hour cycle to support metabolism and general health.

Identity

Family / Order
Scincidae / Squamata
Origin

Enclosure and conditions

Temperature
warm 29–32 °C / cool 24–29 °C / night 21–24 °C

What your climate adds

This sheet states a range to hold. Your local climate decides how much work holding it is. Pick the nearest city: nothing is sent anywhere, the choice stays in this browser.

Diet

Feeding rhythm

every 2–3 dAs an adult
14Meals in 28 days

Twenty-eight days, one row. Each band is a meal window. The sheet gives several ages on one line; this is the adult figure.

Why

The windows widen as they go because the interval is a range: four meals after a 10–14 day cycle land anywhere between day 40 and day 56.

The sheet statesFeed juveniles daily and adults every 2–3 days.

What it needs

A heat sourcebecause temp — warm 29-32 °C / cool 24-29 °C / night 21-24 °C
A thermostat to regulate itbecause temp — warm 29-32 °C / cool 24-29 °C / night 21-24 °C
A thermometerbecause temp — warm 29-32 °C / cool 24-29 °C / night 21-24 °C
A way to check the night figurebecause temp — warm 29-32 °C / cool 24-29 °C / night 21-24 °C
A hygrometerbecause humidity — Temperature & Humidity: Basking area: 85–90°F (29–32°C) Ambient temperature: 75–85°F (24–29°C) Night temperatures: 70–75°F (21–24°C) Maintain moderate humidity at 60–80%, with regular light misting to simulate forest conditions.
UVB 2-5%, stated as requiredbecause uvb — Lighting: Provide full-spectrum lighting with moderate UVB (2-5%) on a 12-hour cycle to support metabolism and general health.
Not stated: The size of the enclosurethis sheet states no size

Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation. What the sheet does not state is listed too, rather than left out: a kit that looks complete is worse than one that names its gap.

Sources

tailsandscales.ca — lu le 2026-08-09GBIF distribution (checklist range) — read 2026-08-09

Others in this group

Northern Blue-tongued SkinkTiliqua scincoides intermediaEastern Blue-tongued SkinkTiliqua scincoides scincoidesBlotched Blue-tongued SkinkTiliqua nigroluteaShingleback SkinkTiliqua rugosaFire SkinkLepidothyris fernandiSchneider's skinkEumeces schneideriOcellated SkinkChalcides ocellatusRed-eyed crocodile skinkTribolonotus gracilis

What this sheet states

62%
TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

This sheet states 4 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: enclosure size audit, day/night engine and awake count on the globe, the diet section. We show the gap rather than fill it with a plausible number.

UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 421 of 678 sheets, and on most of them that is not a gap, since a nocturnal snake's sheet has no reason to state a UV index. Counting it would call the library incomplete without cause.