help identifying skink

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TheAlaskanBlues
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help identifying skink

Postby TheAlaskanBlues » Wed Dec 07, 2016 2:13 pm

Short story: My friend gave me his blue tongue skink (female) because he didn't have much experience in reptiles. I'm new to blue tongues and I need help identifying her please.

Long story: I live in south central Alaska (left of Canada) and I recently obtained a blue tongue skink simply named "sink" because of my friends niece can't pronounce skink. He got "sink" about 6 months ago from a teacher in California where he was doing school at. When he was given her he wasn't given details on her. We know for sure that she is actually a she and that she's between 3-4 years of age. He decided a few weeks ago that he didn't have enough time to dedicate to her so he asked me if I want to take it because I own a wide variety of reptiles and I said I would take her. Now we are at this point where I have had her for a few days and I tried to search what type of blue tongue she is and I cannot identify her. I am new to blue tongues and this is my first expirence with one and "sink" is such a sweet heart that I want to make sure I know everything about her so that she can be happy with me also so I would greatly appreciate it if you could help me out :)
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Re: help identifying skink

Postby splashy07 » Wed Dec 07, 2016 4:18 pm

Looks to me like a classic Indonesian, tiliqua gigas gigas. Beautiful one at that! Congrats on your new pet and best of luck with her. They require substantially more humidity than their Aussie counterparts.
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Re: help identifying skink

Postby TheAlaskanBlues » Wed Dec 07, 2016 6:34 pm

Thank you so much :)
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Re: help identifying skink

Postby tcopitho » Sat Dec 10, 2016 3:00 am

Beautiful classic Indonesian, looks like he's in excellent health. I bet there aren't to many blueys that far north :D

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