ive heard skinks hate vibrations and that was vibrating pretty intensely should i be worried? Edit: Momma im famous!
We live in a semi truck, sorry for the mess 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭🫤
Found this beauty in the garden bed of house we're buying! So excited 😊
Got it from reputable reptile shop for $425, they said it was a northern and it looks northern, but I’m new to blue tongues, also guessing male and he’s very chill and curious.
Does anyone else own a blue tounge lizard? Her names blue she’s roughly 2 years old. Someone randomly gave her to me at a shopping mall. I’ve gotten approval to keep her by the state! That was a mission in itself they tried taking her and I was balling my eyes out. But what do you guys feed them? She loves blue berries and black berries and cooked chicken. Doesn’t eat live food. I literally breed mealworms and bettles and ants even got roaches for her even though I’m allergic. She will not take. Only cooked chicken or ham. She won’t eat greens she just won’t. I have calcium powder for her and the biggest enclosure I can. She’s roughly 45cms long and was 440grams last month she’s now 460grams. So she’s gained weight but she tells us when she’s hungry I can’t help but feed her! She likes staring at my bettles though. Is she overweight?
Hello everyone!! I need advice, my sun skink used to be comfortable getting food from tongs and would even go close to my hand and sit there while I pet her when she was a juvenile. Even if I didn't have food she would go near my hand and sit there.
I had to go to the hospital a lot for the past 2 months so the only interaction I've done recently was to give her food and now she's an adult. She still stalks me from inside her enclosure but she doesn't come near anymore. She used to tap on the glass and go to my hand or just sit there near me.
How do I bond with her again? Has she forgotten me? Or does this change just come with being an adult?
Hi! I live in south west Florida and keep getting skinks sneaking into our screened in porch. This is a problem, because that area isn’t suitable for them to live in and we don’t want them to die. There isn’t any accessible food or water for them so I’m trying to keep them outside. I think they’re coming in via a drain because we don’t open the doors to the yard unless we have to.
I do have a turtle tank out there and we do leave the door open when draining the tank, but we don’t leave it unattended.
My irrational fear is that it would get into my turtle tank and she would hurt it, but that’s far fetched.
Thank you guys so much! (I’m sure the skinks are also appreciative!)
i’ve been feeding my lined day gecko crickets and i’m trying to switch over to crickets but he won’t eat them, i have them in a bowl at the bottom of his tank because i don’t currently have a better way to feed it to him. my new baby blue tongue skink has been eating crickets as well and he won’t eat the dubias. i REALLY want to switch from crickets because i had a microgecko killed by crickets and i just don’t want that to happen again, please help 🙏
Just got a Schneider skink and I’m uncomfortable when holding him. I don’t want him to jump off of me and onto the floor. Do any of yalls do that?
I have a ~2-year-old male, acquired as a juvenile while I awaited defintive sexing, and I'm considering getting him a girlfriend.
However, out of the many years I've been keeping reptiles, I've never cohabed before. I wanted to address a few things before I finally pulled the trigger, just to be certain I know what I'm getting into.
For some background info, as mentioned, my ETS is a ~2-year-old male, currently inhabiting a 24x18x36 inch enclosure. I initially got him when he was a few months old and he's been isolated since, other than his interactions with me.
With that in mind, I'd appreciate some feedback regarding some concerns I have, listed out below:
Have you had much experience with introducing adults with eachother, as opposed to just keeping a family colony together? Can you say if there's an 'average' reaction?
Are there many cases where a male and a female will have irreconcilable differences, as it were?
How likely / how often do you think I would have to worry about eggs & new juvies? Should the juveniles/hatchlings be housed separately? I've no experience with breeding, and I'm curious as to whether babies are a guarnteed thing, or if it's somewhat easy to locate the eggs buried in the substrate, when the time comes.
Ideally, I'd like to find a female from a local to semi-local breeder, just in case things go terribly wrong. Is there anything else I'm missing?
Sadly due to some financial issues I need to rehome my 2 sandfish skinks. I have had them for about a year and a half though I am not sure of their exact ages. They both eat great, they especially love dubia roaches but will eat almost anything. Their genders are unknown. Message me if you are interested. I am located in northern Utah.
So I brought my skink out in the backyard to get some sun and warm up. Keep in mind I am in Phoenix, Arizona. She was relaxing and being super chill and she slowly started walking in the direction of the gate so I slowly started following her to go bring her back inside. She started running away very very quickly and I still wasn’t too worried, but I was being gentle because I didn’t wanna hurt her while grabbing her. She ended up getting away from me. I still had eyes on her. The ground was super hot for my bare feet so I looked away for one second to see if I had any shoes nearby, and I didn’t, when I looked back, she was gone. She was running alongside a brick wall. I literally have no clue where she could’ve even gone because there wasn’t too much for her. Is there a possibility she could climb a brick wall? That’s like 6 feet tall?? I spent an hour walking around my backyard trying to find her and I could not. Please give me tips! :(
Help me decide what subspecies of blue tongue I picked up at the rescue please :)
I have noticed my pair of schneiders trying to mate in May, but i tought nothing of it as i read that they are really hard to breed in captivity, in the meanwhile, female laid 4 eggs in her hide, guarded them and this evening after work i found 4 - not so -little babies (ca. 11-12 cm long).
Hoihoi!
Ik heb sinds een jaar 9 Afrikaanse reuzenslakken bij mij wonen en voer deze compleet biologisch uit eigen tuin of in de winter met groentes uit de supermarkt. Ze zijn mooi groot geworden en zien er zover ik kan zien gezond uit. Ik controleer een keer per week op nestjes met eitjes en het is dus helaas al eenmalig voorgekomen dat er een nestje over het hoofd gezien is en ik met een groepje jonge slakken van een paar dagen oud zit. Nu zijn mijn volwassen slakken al inteelt en is het niet eerlijk om deze slechte genetische slakken zich voort te laten planten. Nu heb ik op het Afrikaanse reuzenslakken sub gehoord dat er in het buitenland vaak slakken worden verkocht aan reptielen shops als voeding voor reptielen. Ik vraag mij heel erg af wat voor reptielen dit dan zijn. Ik dacht eerst aan luipaardgekkos of baardagamen want die eten zover ik weet alles wat in hun mondje past maar chsr gpt heeft vermeld dat deze soorten geen slakken eten. Mijn slakken zijn nu 1 jaar en zullen nog minimaal 6 maximaal 10 jaar meegaan en hierdoor wil ik ( beslissend aan de soorten) overwegen om een reptiel te nemen die deze slakjes en eitjes opeet zodat ze geen onnuttige dood zullen moeten hebben en het reptiel een goed huisje eruit krijgt. Ik heb geen kinderen en kan deze ook niet krijgen dus financieel en qua rust/ ruimte zou het prima moeten gaan.
Ik hoor heel erg graag van jullie, ik ben heel erg benieuwd!
