BLUE TONGUE SKINKS

I'm pretty sure Jazz is a boy. Maddie on the other hand... I have can't tell

I don't know but both are uber uber cute be them boys or girls

NennaMeerkat wrote:I don't know but both are uber uber cute be them boys or girls

I kinda think so too... which is half of why I'm sure they are both going to end up being boys; ALL the gorgeous ones are always boys! Grrr....
Jazz is about to shed, he is normally yellower than Maddie.

I would lean toward male on both of them, but not strongly. The way I see it, you have two options. Either feed the heck out of them and see what they look like with more weight on them, or start putting them together with the known female on a regular basis and observe their behavior. You have to understand though that many times they will do nothing that helps you at all when you put them together. You will just be hoping to hit a window when they are both in the breeding mood. When you finally do, you should be able to determine if they are male. On the other hand, if one is female, then you will probably just be confused. Are you starting to understand why most reptile breeders think breeding bts is more trouble than it''s worth?

nice merauke

Jeff wrote:Are you starting to understand why most reptile breeders think breeding bts is more trouble than it''s worth?

Hahaha! I DO understand why it's NOT a hobby you would easily get rich from! Especially Meraukes.
Isn't this just typical though; I got Jazz and Maddie out of a group of 5 because they were pointed out as most likely to be females out of the group (no guarantees, of course!). NOT because I wanted to breed but because we'd had two males, and my son wanted to see what a female was like.
And because I ended up getting these three from Andrew, and everybody telling me I HAD to try to breed them, I figured I'd give it a whirl (I have the desire, the time, the space, and the means to house and care for every single offspring for years--including pay for veterinary care.) But even the experienced Andrew Seike thought he sold me two females and one male; NOPE, two are boys.
Now that I've decided to give breeding a serious try, out of 5 BTS, 4 were "supposed" to be females; just watch--I'll end up with only ONE female and FOUR males!

Yes! VERY frustrating! LOTS of work AND expensive! ...but so far worth it. I AM still looking at them as pets though, HOPING to some day maybe be a breeder, but that's mostly because I happen to think all 5 of my Meraukes are--as you have all seen!--PRIME, gorgeous specimens that, regardless of sex, need to pass their genes on! If I'm not successfull breeding them, I need to get them to someone who IS. That's how deeply I care.

I am also leaning toward boys, but they aren't easy / obvious ones to sex.

Welcome to the 80% male Merauke club. We have a boy-dominated household too!

lol we are hoping ours is a girl...she is big, and round. *crosses fingers* If so, I will be willing to steal...er i mean buy one of your extra males off your hands

Im not sure how I never replied to this post sooner!

To be honest, I have no idea on these two. These "guys" are tricky! To me they almost appear to be very sleek females, but that is very unusual to have sleek females. From my experience female gigas species are chunks! Start feeding them a lot and see if they balloon up lol. If they do, Id say female. If not, male. (Im just kidding about over feeding)

Susann wrote:

NennaMeerkat wrote:I don't know but both are uber uber cute be them boys or girls

I kinda think so too... which is half of why I'm sure they are both going to end up being boys; ALL the gorgeous ones are always boys! Grrr....
Jazz is about to shed, he is normally yellower than Maddie.

You kinda think your skinks are cute?!?!?!
All skinks are cute!!!!
Except for old males... They are handsome

xxmonitorlizardxx wrote:All skinks are cute!!!!

Yes. But some are CUTER than others, and I happen to think I've got winners in the CUTER category!