What causes Blue-Tongued Skinks to lose their toes?

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What causes Blue-Tongued Skinks to lose their toes?

Postby Dakota » Wed Mar 06, 2013 8:10 am

I have had 3 Blue-Tongued Skinks in my lifetime, and none have lost their toes. I have been keeping them for a little over 4 years.

What causes it? Shed stuck?
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Re: What causes Blue-Tongued Skinks to lose their toes?

Postby Dakota » Wed Mar 06, 2013 8:13 am

*knock on wood*
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Re: What causes Blue-Tongued Skinks to lose their toes?

Postby UroFreak13 » Wed Mar 06, 2013 8:25 am

If there kept with other bts they may nip at each others toes or stuck shed on their toes which causes a loss of circulation and they fall off
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Re: What causes Blue-Tongued Skinks to lose their toes?

Postby Linnea » Thu Mar 07, 2013 1:13 am

illness, stuck shed, other ways of injury (like getting stuck, getting attacked, getting hurt randomly).

its really just like anything else. :)
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