brumating skinks (wake up and mating to)

[Richard.C]

i do have a habit of hanging on to a few,like to see how they develop,

but yeah get a few litters and sometimes you have no choice but to find some new homes

some of the blotchies i want to build there numbers up,as i have an outdoor cage of predominantly males

but yes,not counting my chickens before they hatch,looks promising but will see how they go

[Richard.C]

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counted ten vic alpines out basking today,a couple i hadnt seen since april and have no clue where they had tucked them selves away

even split,5 males and 5 females

[NickBrahz]

Yeah understandable was curious as to how many potential births you may have, how many do you usually get each year that give birth?

Love that middle blotch in the last picture, nice pinkish/redish.

[Richard.C]

orangey weirdy vic alpine male that one,the big fat one to left of it is his sister

with the blotchies usually 2 to 5 the last few seasons drop,last season 4 northerns,a few more came of age this season so seewhat happens

[Richard.C]

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bluemountains male has covered a 3rd blue mountains female,pretty sure his covered his sister as well ,ive only seen alot of grabbing and attempted tail lifts there though,hes had goes at rwo others as well,plus bullied a younger male which ive removed ,hes also dropping plugs but a bit unsettled from the older males harrassment

uploaded a couple more vids to u tube

of lowlands and now blue mountains mating

[Richard.C]

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ten mins of holding after mating last lass he finally let go,then went and covered stumpy,these guys are crazy

[Richard.C]

no pics yet but yesterday the old vic black and white aspera was finally pacing around and gently biting ar the females back leg and lower area of tummy and keeping her close

[Richard.C]

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nsw southern highlands male covering a 2nd blue mountains girl

[Richard.C]

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lowlands still going to

trying to catch one of the boys covering pigface is proving hard,lots of close attempts but she manages to evade the money shot

hopefully next time round,lol

dominant male seems to have lost interest in trying,may have got bested by the silver male,though hes bot shying awau from him

[Richard.C]

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in case your curious to the endearing name,when i got this group of lowlands this is how she came,poor old thing

she had recently just had a litter of ten babies to

[Richard.C]

well no blotchy action yoday except for a second young vic alpine male,showing interest but just grabbing

the males appear lazier today

on a more posative note my big long term male western seems to have seriously woken up,pacing and bolting at anything thay moves but jusy the other males so far,the females been pretty quiet

[Jbolar]

still, seems like your stuff is on fire and going hard, making this upcoming season for me a but harder. lol i can't wait to start.

[Richard.C]

yeah,a cold change came earlyish yesterday which could have played a part,though the big males have been very active for close to 9 days so could also have needed a break

[Richard.C]

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this old male lowlands shed today,bit late to the party as im starting to think the 3 lasses have shut up shop,zero interest from the boys now,just a good check over when they cross paths,nsw southern alpine male is still pacing like mad and dropping plugs but has also stopped showing any interest in the two female bluemountains in with him,much to there delight as he went non stop,i ended up waking 3 vic alpines i was going to put outdoors to wake up naturally,so might try them with him
and the two young vic alpine males,i was paranoid after losing my old girl whom was brumating with them,they also came out a bit iffy for some reason,maybe to dry for to long,they were wirh the rest of the blotchies till wake up time so maybe had them down to long as kept them brunating

bluemountains seem done as well

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also found this,the most silvery lowlands female appear to be ovulating today

[Richard.C]

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bluemountains female ovulation

[tiliqua]

Now that's interesting! I've never seen a photo of an ovulating female Tiliqua nigrolutea before, let alone witnessing it happen. This is no doubt largely due to the fact that I've pretty much kept all my blueys outside in pits all these years.
Witnessing such events is one of the benefits of keeping them indoors.
Could you please tell us how you know that she was ovulating at the time? Is it due to it being a relatively sudden onset of swelling or is it more a qualitative thing. I know that it's most probably just generalised swelling but if it's localised, can you please describe whereabouts it occurs?

By the way, congratulations on making your 10,000th post Richard!

[Susann]

By the way, congratulations on making your 10,000th post Richard!

Holy crap! 10,000 posts in just under 10 years ...we should put some kind of limitation on this guy

[NickBrahz]

You can not limit Richards posts about skink sex!

[RoryBreaker]

By the way, congratulations on making your 10,000th post Richard!

Holy crap! 10,000 posts in just under 10 years ...we should put some kind of limitation on this guy

Dakota is catching up quick with nearly 5000 posts in 2.5years.

[Richard.C]

Cripes,dakotas catching up,best i pull finger out and post once in a while,haha

Sheesh i thought i was still in the 7 thou range,i do blab on a bit at times,haha

Tiliqua,its something i occaisionally saw with blotchies outdoors but never really thought anytging of it,or attributed it ti recently pigging out or something,mine tend to start eatibg pretty well long before mating here in melb,lol

Breeding tge bortherns indoors the last 5 seasons ive seen it iften with a couole of them,vecause your mire in control you can tell easier i guess,i dont notice and section swell,they just bloat a bit but they go from acting nornal and active to just sitting there all awkwardly and kinked in certain spots

One female northern this season was fully on her side,but rolled back when i opened cage to take a pic,they seem to just go funny for an hour or two before appearing them selves again,well from what i have seen,and ive only seen it in a few,not all of them