Determining age
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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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Commanderday
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Determining age
Hey I went through the care sheet. Unless I missed it I didn't see anything about determining age? I know my BTS is not a year yet (i think...) but he has grown a bit since I've had him. He has still been shedding at least once a month. His last two sheds however I'm pretty sure were within the same month. I was not recording his sheds though so just going off my memory. I know with other lizards you can usually "estimate" by the length of the lizard up to a year. I was just wondering if this also applied with BTS?
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NickBrahz
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Re: Determining age
You can get a rough estimate based on its size but not incredibly accurate because the amount of factors that are taken into account (Raised on good diet vs poor diet, it may be a runt, it might be bigger then average, might be a slow grower etc).
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Commanderday
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Re: Determining age
So is there a way to determine age? I guess an exotic vet visit?
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NickBrahz
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Re: Determining age
Breeders and long term owners on here are usually pretty good at guesses if they have pictures from the top and his measurements and such
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Commanderday
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Re: Determining age
Okay I will throw some pictures of him up tomorrow and let someone take a stab at it. He is sleeping right now and don't want to wake him.
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Susann
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Re: Determining age
Post some pictures of him and remind us where you got him from, and what info you have, if any at all, on him.
Breeder and keeper of Meraukes from 2010 to 2022.
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Commanderday
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Re: Determining age
Sorry guys, I am having computer issues with loading pictures. It is not do to the website. Until I get it figured out I will have to come back to this topic later. If it dies out I will just post pictures with a new topic.
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WaffleSquatch
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Re: Determining age
My Bluey is about two years old and I've had him for a couple weeks and only in the last two days have I seen him yawn (Gasping) is this normal?
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NickBrahz
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Re: Determining age
WaffleSquatch wrote:My Bluey is about two years old and I've had him for a couple weeks and only in the last two days have I seen him yawn (Gasping) is this normal?
Yeah they yawn from time to time rare to see it or catch it on pictures.
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