BLUE TONGUE SKINKS

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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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

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

She is gorgeous!!

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.

Sorry if this alot.
http://www.bluetongueskinks.net/forum/v ... ight=gigas

How big is she? Yeah gigantic does sound made up. There is something like that in a book of mine too.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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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Hahaha, indonesian giant.

Yep, Merauke. A real beaut!