brumating skinks (wake up and mating to)

[Richard.C]

Added a vid to my you tube page

Lowland blotchies mating 2015

[Richard.C]

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Alpines are off and running

An old nsw southern highlands male over a bluemountains female,hes the only one i have of this type so going to let him cover a bluemountains and a vic alpine to see what happens

Scott,this is one of the babies i got from you a few years back along with the yearling pr and 2 year old fella

[Richard.C]

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Old school grainy look pic,not enough charge on fone for flash,lol

He sat there holding on for around ten minutes,let go for a mili second and she was off,for about 2 feet befire he grabbed on again and covered her for a second time

[Richard.C]

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5 times in and hour and a half,that i saw and left him still trying as had to do kids dinner and bedtime ect being a school and kinder night

Makes me wonder what i miss when they are outdoors,i thought the old vic alpine male going 5 or 6 times in a few hours was going hard

Anyways this fellas taken over the kunnanurra males cage for now to keep him away from the other bluemountains alpines and to prevent him making those males possably shy away from the girls

[tiliqua]

Wow, your Alpines are starting early this season; or is this normal for you to see mating activity this early? (still winter! )
I haven't put my Blue Mountains Alpine stud in with the females yet. I don't usually introduce/observe mating activity until September. I read somewhere that the females emerge from brumation later than males. Have you found this to be the case?
By the way, I like your NSW Southern Highlands specimen.

[freeloader]

Ask him how early his northerns were? Watched the video Richard. He hung on a fair while, even while that inconsiderate male was all over him.

[Richard.C]

Scott,the nsw alpine went again last night and stil wouldnt let go of the female so killed the lights on him (cold shower) lol

Both sitting together basking this morning,they seem till wait till afternoon when ambient peaks then switch on

Tiliqua,this is the earliest ive had them mating,usually they are outside,but the lowlands group ourdoor cage gets zero sun for a few months so brought them and easterns in to brumate,still need to make some out door cages for the blue mountains,i have some old lowlands outdoors at folks still but all big old males and didnt want to add a few more males to the group especially with only a few females,as i eould imagine they would punch on a bit,so setting up another group and will keep an eye out for some females to add to old group,and maybe add some babies if i have a good season on them


Last 2 seasons i tried to wake some indoors ones into ideal conditions,eg to warm to quick,i even woke a couple of females two weeks after the males and had no results

This season i went back to old method,woke them a little later ,old methods cool ambient but decent basking spot temp up one end in 6 and 7 foot long enclosures,usually ,at my old place id wake them start of july to mid july after cutting all heat on june first and theu would hold out mating till september october, when ambients were inproving,so im guessing smaller lower ininsulated tin shed the ambient rises a smidgen quicker

I think warming them to fast the females cycle before the males shed and u miss there breeding windows,and females shut up shop faster

Will see how it goes this season,hoping rhe wesrerns and shinglebacks do something shortly to,looks promising but still early days

[Richard.C]

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Ha,like clock work,in the space of a minute nsw southern alpines off And so to is a lowlands in cage next door,looks like a nicer day today temp wise so bit earlier start,cool end temps on 15

[Richard.C]

Oldest blue mountains male just dropped pligs in other cage and is pacing,all girls are still asleep though there,lol

[Richard.C]

Interesting morning so far

No mating yet but tons of grabbing and holding,its like there holding back till ambient creeps up a tad more

Oh,as i write this silver male lowlands has grabbed a 3rd lowlands girl,my biggest,ol pig nose with the stumpy tail,hopefully they start showing more interest in her

Oldest blue mountains male that was dropping plugs earlier has been chasing a youngster about,but just pursuits so far,pretty sure said youngster is a male

Had to remove the rugosa rugosa male as he was starting to bite at my vic black and white male ,usually does this before females ready and when she gets close the vic aspera male subdues him,dont want them interbreeding so hes off for spring now,really need to find him a female

Ill check ambients with first successful copulations,see if i can see a pattern

[Richard.C]

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Thought the young girls may be close on size,but suprisingly this young male vic alpine hold back thinks its not the size that counts but what u do with it,lol

[Richard.C]

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well the indoors ones are fooling around,the out door ones thawed out a bit today and suprisingly felt warmish to the touch,counted 8 vic alpines out,both sexes,mercury climbed to a whopping 17 degrees

was nice to see the sun again,lol

hopefully an earlyish springs on the cards this season

working all day so away from home,hopefully the indoor ones are behaving

[Richard.C]

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vic alpines,nsw southern highlands and vic mowlands still all going at a frantic pace,first bluemountains male has been chasing and grabbing one of the girls so hopefully about to join the action

old western males dropping alot of plugs now and ready to chase if anyone moves with anu i tent in cafe,but so far has just been biting and pushing awau the newer male if it goes anywhere near the big girl

[Richard.C]

correction,the bluemountains are now off and running

[Richard.C]

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bluemountains pr,hes been chasing the one in the back ground mostly

[NickBrahz]

How many females of each type of species has gotten busy so far that you know off?

[Richard.C]

7 northerns,8 blotchies so far that ive seen

[Richard.C]

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the make blue mountains covered this bluemountains lass about ten mins after the first female

scott thats stumpy,shes a realy nice blotchie

[freeloader]

Fingers crossed for a big season Richard.

[NickBrahz]

Sounds like it may be a big season over there this year Richard, what do you plan to do with all the babies? do you keep a handful and sell the rest or what?