Hello from Winnipeg, Manitoba!
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In this forum all are welcome to ask blue tongue skink-related questions, share information, ideas, tips, experiences, and pictures with fellow BTS enthusiasts.
If you are wondering if your BTS is acting normally or might be sick, this is where you can get help with that.
This is also where you can have some FUN while sharing the enjoyment you get from your blueys!
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- Bluey Beginner
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Hello from Winnipeg, Manitoba!
Hi everyone, My name is Randy and I am new to this site. I am looking to get my very first blue tongue skink this summer at our yearly reptile expo(September)...that is also if Melanie(Fatal_S) has a successful breeding season and if she will allow me to adopt one of her baby BTS. I've been lurking on here and soaking up all the information I can and just preparing for my first BTS.
This is what I've gathered so far for supplies-- the enclosure is 36x18x12 with screen top and I will be picking up a mega-ray uvb bulb...please feel free to let me know what else I need or what to change.
This is what I've gathered so far for supplies-- the enclosure is 36x18x12 with screen top and I will be picking up a mega-ray uvb bulb...please feel free to let me know what else I need or what to change.
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- Bluey Beginner
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Re: Hello from Winnipeg, Manitoba!
also what type of blue tongue skink are you looking for because there are lots of different types.
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Re: Hello from Winnipeg, Manitoba!
Welcome!! Always great to see more Canadians.
Getting a baby from Mel is a great idea. She has had lots of breedings so hopefully you'll have lots to choose from.
Getting a baby from Mel is a great idea. She has had lots of breedings so hopefully you'll have lots to choose from.
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Re: Hello from Winnipeg, Manitoba!
Hello mate, looks fine for now, he'll grow out of some of the items you've got pretty quickly but you'll be prepared for that I expect, can I ask how you're going to monitor the basking rock temp, digital temp guns are brilliant for that if you haven't already got one. Is it an all or nothing deal for Fatal and one of her bubs?
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Re: Hello from Winnipeg, Manitoba!
Oh forgot to say, you might want to cover two or three of the sides with a scenic background or something, it can help skittish youngsters feel safer and can calm down a bit quicker.
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- WanderingChai
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Re: Hello from Winnipeg, Manitoba!
For a little while paper towel will be fine~ but in the long run I would recommend a burrowing substrate. I think it keeps them less stress, and it's a plus as a hide as well!
Can't wait for pics, I'm so jealous of you canadians... You get Fatal!
Can't wait for pics, I'm so jealous of you canadians... You get Fatal!
If love is a labor, I'll slave to the end.
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Re: Hello from Winnipeg, Manitoba!
more canadians
welcome to the forum,
enclosure should suit a little one well for quite some time
and even with paper towel,they can hide under that to
welcome to the forum,
enclosure should suit a little one well for quite some time
and even with paper towel,they can hide under that to
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Re: Hello from Winnipeg, Manitoba!
Welcome to the forum!
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Re: Hello from Winnipeg, Manitoba!
Richard.C wrote::? more canadians
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Re: Hello from Winnipeg, Manitoba!
Hiya Teeger! Great to see you on here
Should have lots of babies to choose from this year. I've bred Northerns, Northern x Caramel Northern, IJs and Tanimbars.
Keep in mind UVB doesn't really penetrate through tightly-woven screen. If you can't poke things through the screen easily, the UVB part of the light becomes pretty useless.
Should have lots of babies to choose from this year. I've bred Northerns, Northern x Caramel Northern, IJs and Tanimbars.
Keep in mind UVB doesn't really penetrate through tightly-woven screen. If you can't poke things through the screen easily, the UVB part of the light becomes pretty useless.
Mel's Exotics
Breeder of Blue Tongue Skinks & More
http://www.MelsExotics.ca
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Breeder of Blue Tongue Skinks & More
http://www.MelsExotics.ca
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpVkgO ... wr6Ds0CP_A
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Re: Hello from Winnipeg, Manitoba!
Nemo me impune lacessit.
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Re: Hello from Winnipeg, Manitoba!
Hi
I am from Winnipeg too I bought 2 skinks from Melanie last year . I think that having different substrate would be good . Aspen shavings are good for them to hide in .
I am from Winnipeg too I bought 2 skinks from Melanie last year . I think that having different substrate would be good . Aspen shavings are good for them to hide in .
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Re: Hello from Winnipeg, Manitoba!
Thank you all for the warm welcome!
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I will get appropriate size items as he/she grows. Fatal is the only breeder in Winnipeg that I know and I see how well she keeps her skinks and how passionate she is about them and I wanna start off with a healthy CBB BTS
Good tip...I will poke holes in the screen. I cant wait to see what you have available this summer!
iloveskinks wrote::btsnet: also what type of blue tongue skink are you looking for because there are lots of different types.
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Leigh wrote:Hello mate, looks fine for now, he'll grow out of some of the items you've got pretty quickly but you'll be prepared for that I expect, can I ask how you're going to monitor the basking rock temp, digital temp guns are brilliant for that if you haven't already got one. Is it an all or nothing deal for Fatal and one of her bubs?
I will get appropriate size items as he/she grows. Fatal is the only breeder in Winnipeg that I know and I see how well she keeps her skinks and how passionate she is about them and I wanna start off with a healthy CBB BTS
Fatal_S wrote:Hiya Teeger! Great to see you on here
Should have lots of babies to choose from this year. I've bred Northerns, Northern x Caramel Northern, IJs and Tanimbars.
Keep in mind UVB doesn't really penetrate through tightly-woven screen. If you can't poke things through the screen easily, the UVB part of the light becomes pretty useless.
Good tip...I will poke holes in the screen. I cant wait to see what you have available this summer!
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Re: Hello from Winnipeg, Manitoba!
Im also Winnipeg, are we going to get blue tounge skinks at the expo this year?
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Re: Hello from Winnipeg, Manitoba!
I will definitely have BTS at the expo. I may bring babies if I still have some available. Right now there are 23/28 2012 Northerns looking for homes.
http://www.MelsExotics.ca
http://www.MelsExotics.ca
Mel's Exotics
Breeder of Blue Tongue Skinks & More
http://www.MelsExotics.ca
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpVkgO ... wr6Ds0CP_A
Breeder of Blue Tongue Skinks & More
http://www.MelsExotics.ca
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpVkgO ... wr6Ds0CP_A
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Re: Hello from Winnipeg, Manitoba!
Lol yeah its no fair! I need a skink guru close by, I'm jealous and shamelessly so! Welcome and I hope you'll bring me along with you since I'm learning still. If it wasn't such a pain to get them from Canada-land to the USA I'd be all over one of Fatals' babies. I recently talked to my roommate who is also thinking of getting a BTS (which is freaking awesome) but he's more interested in shinglebacks and other rarer types. Either way! It will be fun to have another to learn along with me
- Sarikazam
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Re: Hello from Winnipeg, Manitoba!
Yay for more Canadian members! I am also getting one of Mel's babies this year Maybe another one next year if I am lucky.
Also is that just a Exo-Terra water bowl? I am kind of having trouble finding nice looking dishes big enough for an adult BTS where I am.
Also is that just a Exo-Terra water bowl? I am kind of having trouble finding nice looking dishes big enough for an adult BTS where I am.
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1.0 Northern (Hobbes)
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- Bluey Beginner
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Re: Hello from Winnipeg, Manitoba!
Exo-Terra makes an excellent one that you can get at petsmart (I'm not sure if Canada has them) or PetCo thats made for large iguana thats really heavy and nice. I have one for my beardy and its large enough to fit an adult bluey in it if they really wanted to lay in there.
- BruinsEv
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Re: Hello from Winnipeg, Manitoba!
Yay Canada! I'm also getting one from Mel this year! I don't really have anything to add to that, but if anyone will be at the reptile expo in TORONTO this year, we should meet up!
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