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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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JACDORE
- Bluey Beginner

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new to BTS keeping
Hi all, ive got other reptiles, beardies, leopard gecko's, snake, but fell in complete love with a 3 month old BTS. Just had to have him/her. Got loads of other pets too. Have decided she is a she (Uknown of course) and called her Tili as used to know a wonderful neighbour when I grew up who was like my nan to me called Tilly. Anyone got any hints/tips on how to make her completely fit in. Her viv is 4ft by 3ft I think, its the bigger one anyway. She has her arcadia 12% uvb, has 2 60w basking bulbs, has a wet moss hiding area, has something to go on so not to high to bask on, has a hide the cool end, has her water bowl cool end, feed veggies, fruit everyday and occasional snail, pinkie as a treat only, dog food, cricket, hopper etc, but mainly the fruit n veg. Her basking spot is set to 105 max and usually sits around the 100-103 mark, her cool end sits at 25c (so that's erm 80-85 ish, cant think right now), night time doesn't go below 70. Had her 2 weeks now and so friendly, eating, drinking, pooping very well, just though i'd ask you guys for more idea's. Ive probably left something out, oh yeah humidity sits around 50 ish. Bought, well ordered, some Dubai cockroaches for her today, how many can she have? Also only take our reptiles to a reptile vet not the normal cat/dog vet.
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- Dakota
- Snail Hunter

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Re: new to BTS keeping
Funny you name her Tili; their genus is Tiliqua
Sounds like you are doing everything correct!
Not sure about the Dubia's, I don't feed roaches.
Sounds like you are doing everything correct!
"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man." — Charles Darwin
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JACDORE
- Bluey Beginner

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Re: new to BTS keeping
IF I DONT GIVE HER THE ROACHES I WILL THE BEARDIE AS HEARD THEY LOVE THEM, ooops, so sorry for caps, didn't realise it on, sorry. Yes I thought as well as my nanna lady called Tilly, there Tiliqua so just a perfect name, thanks xxx
- Mimo
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Re: new to BTS keeping
Cool name 
can't helpt with the roaches... all i know is you can feed cockroaches frequently
Not sure how much though..
can't helpt with the roaches... all i know is you can feed cockroaches frequently
Not sure how much though..
- Coomassie
- The Inked Chemist

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Re: new to BTS keeping
Hi and welcome to the forum! I feed Coomassie (my adult male Northern) dubias. I have a large colony that feeds my leopard geckos, fire skink, tokay, and tiger geckos. Coomassie gets to eat a bunch of the large adult roaches since they are too big for everyone else. I feed him dogfood with veggies once a week and get gets up to 3 large adult dubias 3ish times a week. He recognizes the plastic bin that the roach colony is in so he gets all excited when we start feeding all the other lizards. You can feed more frequently with how young Tili is. When Coomassie was a baby, I fed him every other day and let him chase down all the roaches he wanted.
Cay T.
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