I guess that's why they're called "water" skinks, huh? :wink:
<<<< I've often seen them in creeks, ponds floating there like nano-crocodiles !!! they love the water. quick flick of their tail and under they go, to bob up minutes later with a little fish, worm, tadpole, water insect, or yabby in their mouth.
We use an upside down frisbee for a water dish (evaporation probably helps a little with humidity too, because the indoor air here is usually very dry, especially in the winter), but our beardie doesn't seem to recognize it as anything he can drink. Once in a while he runs through it, and then leaves little wet footprints all over the paper towels on his way back up to the basking platform. That usually happens when he's doing one of his little dances that says either "Get me out of here I have to go to the bathroom" or "Get me out of here I want to run around the house and get into mischief" or maybe even "Get me out of here I want to cuddle", and the frisbee water dish just gets in the way. But I don't think he's ever figured out that there's water in there that he could drink if he was
thirsty. :?
He's never used the water dish for a toilet either, but our snake does that on a fairly regular basis -- it's actually easier to clean it up that way -- just dump and wash the water dish.
I get a kick out of Peppa's foot shaking like a cat -- I've never seen a beardie do that. Ours doesn't seem to care if his feet are wet.