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Snails are one of the favourite foods for some of the larger skinks (i.e. blue tongues).

The easiest way to obtain this food source is to collect them from the garden after making sure there are no snail bait or toxic plants in the area.

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METHOD:

What you'll need:
strong torch

What you'll do:
To find them is easy, start by turning pot plants and rocks over or they can be found on the underside of large leaf plants.
At night after it has been raining use a strong torch and the snails can be found on pathways and in the middle of the lawn.
If small snails are required to feed smaller lizards or newborn skinks, freeze the larger snails until they are solid.
Then as you require small snails they can be sliced quite easily with a carving knife while still frozen.

After defrosting offer these bite size pieces with the shell fragments so that they keep their crunch and maintain the calcium content, which is very important for young or newborn herps.

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