Baby Skinks in the Holiday Spirit

[Fatal_S]

I snapped a few photos of my little skinks (Bomber and QD) out enjoying the holidays with me today. I'll be getting more soon, so I'll post those later
















There's no pictures of the older skinks, since they're all asleep for the winter:

[NennaMeerkat]

Do they have presents under the tree?

[realis88]

woooowww.. nice nothern

[Fatal_S]

No, their presents will be some of our christmas meal.

Amazingly, they're both pure Northerns. From the same litter. Bomber is just very odd and unique, definitely abnormal for a Northern.

[WanderingChai]

Adorable! I love the holiday seaso...

[Alioop]

*coughPHOTOCONTESTcough*

They look great Mel! You must be a very proud skink-mom!

[xxmonitorlizardxx]

How has no one bought QD yet? He is the darkest skink thats not in Aus that I have ever seen. I would have bought him a while ago.

[lemon1]

Cute little guys . Love seeing pictures of the family (LOL) . Callum wants to know why they r out together . I tell my kids we can't take Larry and Pekoe out together because they will fight . Do Bomber and QD fight ?

[Katrina]

How has no one bought QD yet? He is the darkest skink thats not in Aus that I have ever seen. I would have bought him a while ago.

QD is mine. He is just waiting until it is warm enough to ship safely.

They look amazing Mel!!! Love the pics. Bomber is so incredibly unique.

I'll have to get some holiday pics of Sam to compare to QD.

[xxmonitorlizardxx]

How has no one bought QD yet? He is the darkest skink thats not in Aus that I have ever seen. I would have bought him a while ago.

QD is mine. He is just waiting until it is warm enough to ship safely.

They look amazing Mel!!! Love the pics. Bomber is so incredibly unique.

I'll have to get some holiday pics of Sam to compare to QD.

Thank youuuuuuu!!! My gosh!!! I was starting to think everyone was crazy that could produce a near melaninistic skink.

[Fatal_S]

Ali, I promise to submit photos for the contest, I just want to get some better ones. These were a bit rushed since I was cleaning and preparing food at the same time. And I am very proud of my babies, they're so adorable.

Ivy, there's been no aggression between Bomber and QD so far, but they're still closely supervised. Bomber is totally calm, but QD can get a little freaked when her little brother gets too close. For me, so long as the skinks are about the same size I'll let them interact while supervised. I have several adult females that will come out at the same time. My adults males would kill each other, so they come out individually. Since I have so many I pretty much need to bring out groups when I can so all the skinks get out-of-tank time regularly. If you wanted to you could allow Larry and Pekoe to interact so long as you're there and able to grab them. Just don't stick them head-to-head or on top of each other to start with. However it is always safer to have only one out at a time

Kat, these pictures are absolutely rubbish for capturing Bomber's colors right now, the last picture is the closest I could get. Every time I look at him I'm completely stunned. You should try to come visit again in Spring to pick up the skinks and meet Bomber in person. My mom loves his personality, but there's no one here who realizes how weird he is for a Northern. And I hope you have an skink-proof house ready for QD; she never stops moving. She's got an amazing sense of balance and a grasp of heights though. I'm thinking maybe she's a Monkey-Tail in disguise. Any ideas for a name for him/her btw?

[lemon1]

I would love to see pictures of Sam . I should post some of my two . It's neat to see how they grow and what different babies look like from the litter . Does anybody else have babies from you on the forum ?

[xxmonitorlizardxx]

WARNING: For those of you who don't know skinks can act extremely aggressively when put together. Those two skinks were monitored and would have been separated, had there been any aggression shown.

[lemon1]

Does that mean the R both female ? Or maybe one male and one female ?

[xxmonitorlizardxx]

You can't tell. Both sexes will fight together. So any two skinks will fight each other.

[Katrina]

Here are a couple recent ones of Sam. I'd love to see other siblings too and I'll get more Sam pics after she sheds.

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[xxmonitorlizardxx]

I just love how dark Sam is

[Katrina]

Mel had some incredible Northern babies!!! The parents of these guys are just spectacular too. I'm really luck to have Sam.

[Fatal_S]

Does that mean the R both female ? Or maybe one male and one female ?

They're genders are totally unknown, I'm simply calling Bomber a male and QD a female because those are the genders I'd like them to be. Most babies are pretty non-aggressive, but there was at least 1 baby in my first litter who attacked a littermate (I think L was the one who got scuffed up), and another 1 in the second litter who was always scared of his siblings and trying to scare them away with warning-bites. With young skinks I think it's more a matter of territory/self-defense than aggression (the same reason most long-time-cage-mates suddenly kill each other), so it's totally unrelated to gender. When they're adults if they could be together without fighting I'd probably feel safe in assuming at least one was female, but behavior-based sexing will have to wait until they're older.

Oh, hello beautiful! I love the white speckles on Sam's back. And she's just so tubby and smart looking <3 I can definitely see her father in her. I simply can't wait to see how they continue to develop into adulthood!

[lemon1]

I will add pics of Larry and Pekoe tomorrow . I love Larry's white speckles . Sam and Larry have very similar coloring . Pekoe is more orange than dark