UPDATE: Pancake the rescue Halmahera

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UPDATE: Pancake the rescue Halmahera

Postby DianaBlueTongue » Wed Jul 16, 2014 10:24 am

It never ceases to amaze me how resilient bts really are. My little rescue Halmahera, Pancake, went through her first shed since coming to me this morning and compared to when she got here looks like a billion bucks! What a sweet little lizard she is too, Im so grateful that beside being skinny, missing toes and having had a mild case of mouthrot she managed to come through her aweful ordeal pretty much okay.

Anyway, just wanted to share a few pics I took this morning while letting her get a little sun. She's still a pancake but has actually already put on a ton of weight and is doing just splendid. :) It's been tricky to get her to eat normal bts food items, all she was ever fed for the first year or so of her life was bananas and occasionally other fruits. I've been trying to get her to eat some of the dubia and baby mice we breed but she just doesn't know what to do with them, poor thing. Snails though instantly became a favorite, she scarfed down a whole can a few days ago so I think a snail breeding tank is in my near future. lol.
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Re: UPDATE: Pancake the rescue Halmahera

Postby Dakota » Wed Jul 16, 2014 10:28 am

:yikes: :flash: :bugeyes: :tasty:
I need more Halmaheras in my life.
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Re: UPDATE: Pancake the rescue Halmahera

Postby nightfury » Wed Jul 16, 2014 10:45 am

Wow, she's got some gorgeous colors! So happy to see she was very well rescued. :D
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Re: UPDATE: Pancake the rescue Halmahera

Postby jdheff1982 » Wed Jul 16, 2014 11:41 am

HOLY S***! I need me a Hal! Awesome colors on that skink!
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Re: UPDATE: Pancake the rescue Halmahera

Postby JoshChimera » Wed Jul 16, 2014 12:04 pm

This is a great looking skink! Outstanding colors! Is this a sub species to T. Gigas?
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Re: UPDATE: Pancake the rescue Halmahera

Postby Dakota » Wed Jul 16, 2014 12:11 pm

JoshChimera wrote:Is this a sub species to T. Gigas?

They are a form of Tiliqua gigas gigas.
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Re: UPDATE: Pancake the rescue Halmahera

Postby JoshChimera » Wed Jul 16, 2014 1:44 pm

Dakota wrote:
JoshChimera wrote:Is this a sub species to T. Gigas?

They are a form of Tiliqua gigas gigas.

They are pretty awesome looking bts with their black markings! Meruke is another T. Gigas Gigas sub species as well correct?
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Re: UPDATE: Pancake the rescue Halmahera

Postby Dakota » Wed Jul 16, 2014 3:20 pm

That is kinda an odd way to think about it, instead of saying simply Tiliqua gigas, but technically, Meraukes (T. g. evanescens) ARE a subspecies of the Indonesians (Tiliqua g. gigas).. so yes. :D
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Re: UPDATE: Pancake the rescue Halmahera

Postby JoshChimera » Wed Jul 16, 2014 3:39 pm

Thank you for the info Dakota!
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