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Scincidae

Blue Tail Skink

Plestiodon tamdaoensis
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Day

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

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warm end30–33 °C
Humidity60–80 %

The numbers

Temperature

152025303540 °C
24–27°Ambient
18–22°Night
30–33°CBasking surfaceMeasured on the surface under the lamp, not in the air. It is not drawn on the rail above: that scale is the air the enclosure holds, and a basking surface sits far outside it.

One ambient band, 24–27°C, dropping to 18–22°C at night. Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.

The sheet statesbasking 30-33 C / ambient 24-27 C / night 18-22 C

Humidity

60–80%Target RH

The sheet states60-80%

UVB

Requiredrequired

The sheet stateslow-moderate (UV index 1-2)

Diet
small insects

Identity

Family / Order
Scincidae / Squamata
Origin

Enclosure and conditions

Temperature
basking 30-33 C / ambient 24-27 C / night 18-22 C
Humidity
60-80%

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.

What it needs

A heat sourcebecause temp — basking 30-33 C / ambient 24-27 C / night 18-22 C
A thermostat to regulate itbecause temp — basking 30-33 C / ambient 24-27 C / night 18-22 C
A thermometerbecause temp — basking 30-33 C / ambient 24-27 C / night 18-22 C
A way to check the night figurebecause temp — basking 30-33 C / ambient 24-27 C / night 18-22 C
A hygrometerbecause humidity — 60-80%
UVB, stated as requiredbecause uvb — low-moderate (UV index 1-2)
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

Range as recorded in the EPS reference workbook, read 2026-08-09reptile-database.reptarium.cz — lu le

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.