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introducing...Creep!

Postby SapphireTigress1 » Wed May 04, 2011 7:37 pm

This is creep, my new Indo Female. Shes 2 yo, and very large! Shes very friendly, and although she emptied her gigantic skink bladder on my earlier today for the first time holding her...all is forgiven. Shes got such a sweet personality! Very calm and laid back. I think she just had to pee :)

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Postby xxmonitorlizardxx » Wed May 04, 2011 7:44 pm

Well I have good news and bad news. Good news you have a healthy little skink. Bad news it's a newer form meruake. So if you bred to zerling or baneling no pure babies. Sorry... but congrats :)
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Postby SapphireTigress1 » Wed May 04, 2011 7:52 pm

what makes you say that shes an merauke? Im not saying your wrong, i just have no clue. She looks just like Zergling to my untrained eye.

Heck, i'd be chuffed if she is a Merauke :)
The guy who sold her said that she was a Indonesian Giant lolz
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Postby Katrina » Wed May 04, 2011 7:58 pm

She is gorgeous!! :D

I hate to say, but she does look Merauke. No dark outlining on the face, front and back legs are speckled (not solid black) etc. 'Indonesian Giant' sounds made up.
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Postby xxmonitorlizardxx » Wed May 04, 2011 7:58 pm

Sorry if this alot. :lol:
http://www.bluetongueskinks.net/forum/v ... ight=gigas
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Postby xxmonitorlizardxx » Wed May 04, 2011 8:01 pm

How big is she? Yeah gigantic does sound made up. There is something like that in a book of mine too.
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Postby xxmonitorlizardxx » Wed May 04, 2011 8:03 pm

Indos,IJ's, and meruakes are usually mistakened alot. When I first got blueberry I couldn't tell they all looked the same to me.
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Postby Fatal_S » Wed May 04, 2011 8:49 pm

Congrats on the new addition! She looks very tubby and cute. I rather like the stripes going down her back, reminds me of an Eastern (not that I'm IDing as Eastern, I just like the look).

I'd agree not Indo. I'd actually ID it as Merauke or Merauke/IJ.
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Postby SapphireTigress1 » Wed May 04, 2011 8:51 pm

I figured the "Giant" was made up lol. She was a steal, so I picked her up. *Shrug* i can't resist a cute skink :)
She is supposed! to be female, but considering the guy didnt know she was a merauke, who knows. *sigh*

I did read the other thread, Monitorlizardxx, and honestly...it confused me more :)

Are there any other angles to take pics of her to be sure sure shes a merauke vs. being an indo? I know its tough (for me at least) to ID off of pics, so if theres any important angle shots I'm missing, I can take some.

Thanks for all the input...this is why I love this site! You guys are all awesome, and I enjoy the learning and information exchange that goes on
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*** Ok, after perusing the pics on the site (which I can now access due to strange communication between the site and my browser) I'm now even MORE confused. I can't really see the differences between Zergling (Indo?) and Creep (Merauke?). Will my quest for a purebred Indo be forever doomed to failure? I'm tired of breeders not knowing what they have. At least my IJ is a pure IJ. That breeder *Seems* to know what hes about.

I just hate shipping animals, as that has resulted in the poor animals getting RI's, despite proper packing techniques.
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Postby digger » Thu May 05, 2011 10:15 am

Congrats on the new acquisition - very nice! Love the picture with the tongue. it's just one of those BTS things I guess

I thought you had visited our house and taken pictures of Stripe. Shame we're on opposite coasts, our skinks could have play dates...
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Postby Fatal_S » Thu May 05, 2011 3:26 pm

Sapphire, why not start a thread with a top-down and side-view of each of your skinks, and we can try to explain the differences and traits we see?
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Postby SapphireTigress1 » Thu May 05, 2011 3:56 pm

ok :)
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Postby Zach » Sat May 07, 2011 2:47 pm

Hahaha, indonesian giant.

Yep, Merauke. A real beaut!

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