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Re: varieties of cunningham skinks

Postby RoryBreaker » Fri Jun 13, 2014 10:24 pm

Another old picture. Unknown locale due to it being a zoo animal, late 90's from the Australian Reptile Park.

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I am told the south coast of NSW is of similar appearance.
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Re: varieties of cunningham skinks

Postby freeloader » Fri Jun 13, 2014 10:31 pm

The Sydney reds look good. Haven't seen any for sale though.
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Re: varieties of cunningham skinks

Postby RoryBreaker » Fri Jun 13, 2014 10:42 pm

freeloader wrote:The Sydney reds look good. Haven't seen any for sale though.


Richard is getting the last of mine from this season whenever he lets me know when he wants delivery. :)
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Re: varieties of cunningham skinks

Postby RoryBreaker » Tue Jun 17, 2014 5:08 pm

A friend's Cunningham. Locale unknown, but it is unusually coloured and is a beast!!!!!! This girl is huge for a Cunningham.

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and one its young from last season.
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Postby Richard.C » Tue Jun 24, 2014 12:15 am

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thanks to rory,finally have sydney sandstones scrubbed off the to get list,but there so nice rory may get pestered for more next season,lol
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Re: varieties of cunningham skinks

Postby RoryBreaker » Mon Aug 25, 2014 11:00 pm

The parents to those Richard were out basking this afternoon. I haven't seen them out for a few months.

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Re: varieties of cunningham skinks

Postby Richard.C » Tue Aug 26, 2014 12:20 am

nice dave,noticed a few blotchies and cunninghams are starting to pop out here to,finally getting the odd nice day,well nice for melb,still only around 18,lol,but apparently got a couple of 21s coming up

lil tackers are going great,growing quite fast to,suprisingly out growing the king skinks,a couple just shed,*darn they look bright after a shed

going to have to steal your cage idea and sort mine out,i have to keep a coiple of the vic ones inside as they keep getting out of blotchy cage when i think ive sussed where they are straight back out,lol,thankfully the others are happy to stay in cage,so far any ways
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Re: varieties of cunningham skinks

Postby RoryBreaker » Fri Sep 12, 2014 11:56 pm

Another youtube video of the Sydney form Cunninghams from this morning. Female already looks to be carrying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDLvRYn ... e=youtu.be

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Re: varieties of cunningham skinks

Postby RoryBreaker » Sat Sep 13, 2014 3:38 am

And while we are at it, another video. Last season's New England form Cunninghams Skinks.

http://youtu.be/GqQXVkfHBmY

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Re: varieties of cunningham skinks

Postby Richard.C » Sat Sep 13, 2014 8:00 pm

Nice vids as usual dave,that girl does look plump already
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Re: varieties of cunningham skinks

Postby RoryBreaker » Sun Sep 14, 2014 3:54 am

RoryBreaker wrote:Another youtube video of the Sydney form Cunninghams from this morning. Female already looks to be carrying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDLvRYn ... e=youtu.be

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I spotted the scabby submissive male 'throwing the leg' over the female this afternoon. The other male was happy enough to just watch.:)

Would have been nice for them to of done that while filming yesterday. :doh:
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Re: varieties of cunningham skinks

Postby Richard.C » Sun Sep 14, 2014 4:08 pm

Haha,they have a habit of doing that,when i used to sit in pit taking pics of blotchies mating or filming them,the cunninghams would run around after each other,throw a leg over and be gone before i could click,lol,like they were messing with you
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Re: varieties of cunningham skinks

Postby RoryBreaker » Sat Dec 20, 2014 5:23 am

I made up a few head comparison pictures a while back to show the subtle difference in head shape on another forum. I have been meaning to get around to posting them in here, so here we go.

Sydney sandstone form.
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Southern Queensland form.
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I dunno if this helps at all.

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Re: varieties of cunningham skinks

Postby Richard.C » Sat Dec 20, 2014 9:55 pm

Hmmm,the girls look longer nosed and flatter headed from snout to just past the eyes,the southern queensland fella looks like hes been chasin parked cars,lol

Nice looking both those forms
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Re: varieties of cunningham skinks

Postby mark_w » Mon Dec 29, 2014 1:39 pm

Super interesting photos those. The shorter, more rounded face on the males is quite clear. I now need to go and look at my animals....

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Re: varieties of cunningham skinks

Postby RoryBreaker » Fri Jan 02, 2015 12:50 am

RoryBreaker wrote:Another youtube video of the Sydney form Cunninghams from this morning. Female already looks to be carrying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDLvRYn ... e=youtu.be

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These guys gave birth over the last few days, will try and pics over the weekend.
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Re: varieties of cunningham skinks

Postby Richard.C » Fri Jan 02, 2015 7:25 am

Nice one rory,is that earlier than usual for them up there,guess it helps when u have a co operative clinate,lol,i was rugged up and chilly a couple of days ago and today it hit 40 degrees,joys of melb,41 tomoz,not looking forward to a long day at work in a hot kitchen in the middle of xmas holidays in tourist central,lol,probably snow the following day
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Re: varieties of cunningham skinks

Postby RoryBreaker » Fri Jan 02, 2015 4:25 pm

It's about normal for them. Sometimes a couple days before Xmas too.
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Re: varieties of cunningham skinks

Postby Richard.C » Fri Jan 02, 2015 11:19 pm

Ahh ok,you wont get that outdoors down here,lol
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Re: varieties of cunningham skinks

Postby RoryBreaker » Sat Jan 03, 2015 3:28 am

Only five this season. She had 6 last year, and 4 the year before that. Here's the pics from this afternoon.

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