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kenn · Postby **kenn** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 10:21 am

Here the skink was just arrived.
I'll post later on the whole enclosure.

Shell doing really graat, eating well. At first she was shy, but it 's going better every day.

Postby **Richard.C** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 11:52 am

Nice looking bluey,love the dark legs on some of the indo species,sounds like its settling in well

CarlyM · Postby **CarlyM** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 12:45 am

She's cute!

kenn · Postby **kenn** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 8:53 am

As promised, the enclosure.

Due to the UV lamp, you can't see the left corner. The water part was just been removed for fresh water.

Tiliquaenclosure.jpg

Postby **Bird_Brain** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 12:30 pm

Very nice skink and beautiful enclosure! Just curious, did the skink have mites when you got it? The reason I ask is in the first picture (which I'm assuming is when you first got it) there are several raised scales as well as the white dust all over the skink (obviously the dust could be from the bedding). I'm just curious.

kenn · Postby **kenn** » Sat Dec 29, 2012 3:42 am

Indeed.
She had. I treated her offcourse before she was put in her enclosure.

Postby **Lea** » Sat Dec 29, 2012 4:06 am

She's lovely and looks in good health. It's a shame about the mites, they are pesky things. You might want to consider treating her again in a few weeks, just to catch any eggs she may be harbouring, just to prevent a needless reinfestation.

Your enclosure looks great, lots of room, by the looks of it! I'm sure Shell will spend plenty of time exploring, soon enough. More pictures would be welcomed, once she's settled in.

Welcome to bts.net!

kenn · Postby **kenn** » Sat Dec 29, 2012 5:15 am

Thanks for the advice!
I know how to treat them (I'm a vetrinarian exotic animals). It s indeed a pitty of the mites.

After she settles in, I am convinced to find a partner for her.

perhaps in Hamm (DE)

I hope she enjoys it here as much as I do.

Nae · Postby **Nae** » Sat Dec 29, 2012 5:30 am

Shes so lovely, its a shame about the mites - I have never had them, but I heard they suck! :lol:

Postby **Jeff** » Sat Dec 29, 2012 8:03 pm

Great looking skink! Glad you got the mites taken care of. Nasty little pests. Good eye Brad.

kenn wrote:...perhaps in Hamm (DE)..

Just curious, what does the (DE) stand for? Some of us Americans can be dense sometimes.

Postby **Bird_Brain** » Sat Dec 29, 2012 8:25 pm

Jeff wrote:
kenn wrote:...perhaps in Hamm (DE)..

Just curious, what does the (DE) stand for? Some of us Americans can be dense sometimes.

If I had to guess, it stands for Germany (Deutschland =DE)? As Jeff stated, not ALL Americans are dense, just him! :lol:

Postby **El Lobo** » Sat Dec 29, 2012 8:34 pm

The United Nations assign a two letter code for countries. DE is for Deutschland (Germany), US for United States of America, CA for Canada and AU for Australia etc.

Niels D · Postby **Niels D** » Sat Dec 29, 2012 10:23 pm

Like the fact that we've got another Belgium member. Nice skink and good work treating the mites.

kenn · Postby **kenn** » Sun Dec 30, 2012 5:54 am

Here in Europe, the largest reptile fair is Hamm. It's located in Germany indeed.

Thanks for the comments everybody!

kenn · Postby **kenn** » Mon Dec 31, 2012 7:05 am

Thanks to Richard (and this site) I realized that the owner of this animal, as well as me made a mistake..
I bought the animal as a T. scincoides, but it appears to be a T. gigas

Not that I am going to give her away or anything :mrgreen:

but it's a shame that people don't know what there selling.
(and in my case, I was not enough informed!)
That's why I'm going to buy the BTS bible :mrgreen:

I'm trying to tame her by associating me with food.
So today I took some pictures outside her enclosure and treated her with crickets.

In full glory:

Postby **Jeff** » Mon Dec 31, 2012 11:04 am

Alright, no need to rub in my denseness. I am very familiar with the Hamm Reptile Expos, and have purchased multiple animals from there, I guess I had just never seen the (DE) designation for Germany before. It would be so much easier if the rest of the world could just switch over to English! :wink:

Niels D wrote:Like the fact that we've got another Belgium member. Nice skink and good work treating the mites.

I can think of at least 3 other members there. You guys actually seem to have a fairly big Tiliqua community there for such a small country.

sd reptiles · Postby **sd reptiles** » Mon Dec 31, 2012 11:10 am

But bts are not very popular overhere .
I dont know why actually...

kenn · Postby **kenn** » Mon Dec 31, 2012 3:02 pm

sd reptiles wrote:But bts are not very popular overhere .
I dont know why actually...

Indeed..

Postby **Jeff** » Mon Dec 31, 2012 3:27 pm

kenn wrote:...I bought the animal as a T. scincoides, but it appears to be a T. gigas...

I just noticed this. Not to start a debate or anything, but I would consider this skink an Irian Jaya, which is not T. scincoides OR T. gigas. IJ's are currently an undescribed sub-species of Tiliqua (T.ssp.). Some people feel they should be scincoides, and some people think they should be gigas. They are most commonly referred to as either scincoides or simply New Guinea skinks by people who don't understand their current (non) official status.

Postby **Richard.C** » Mon Dec 31, 2012 5:48 pm

Spot on jeff,looking at last 2 pics id say its an ij,not a gigas species

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