BLUE TONGUE SKINKS

First of the season...

Can see baby to the left (eating yolk sac) and mum to right


Mum getting grumpy about me being around babies


Coming out to eat a grape




This one should be a stunner

those are awesome!

beautiful mate,just had my first litter of blotchies today

Richard.C wrote:beautiful mate,just had my first litter of blotchies today

Nice one! Is this late in the year for blotchies?

actually smidge earlier,normally start mid to late march,though this lass is a bluemountains form,first time ive bred that form,she was mated slightly earlier than the vic alpine lasses

and poop,so far the blotchies are before my western female

Thats it. Im coming for a visit. You have no say. I shall hug them both!!

Look at the tummy!! Ive never seen such neat patterning! And the white spots down they back!

They are perfection

Goldfield babies have to be the most beautiful skinks ever <3

Wow, so cool. The babies seem very big compared to a Northern baby, are they much larger?

StaceyLeigh wrote:Wow, so cool. The babies seem very big compared to a Northern baby, are they much larger?

Yup - Hence the reason a shingle only has 2 bubs

Thanks guys,

Now for the impatient wait to see what patterns they are going to have...

StaceyLeigh wrote:Wow, so cool. The babies seem very big compared to a Northern baby, are they much larger?

They can be huge - the orange one last year was twice the size of these! These are actually on the smaller side for shingle babies (and if you are using my hand as a measure please take into account I'm almost 2m tall ) The good thing with them being so big is that they are usually very hardy right from birth, and can stand up for themselves when kept with the group. The downside as Nae pointed out is that you only get 1 or 2 of them each time, and usually only every second year each female.

Nae wrote:Thats it. Im coming for a visit. You have no say. I shall hug them both!!

Look at the tummy!! Ive never seen such neat patterning! And the white spots down they back!

They are perfection

Thanks Nae! I know your little centralian is keeping you busy right now, but when you get ready to get a new pet let me know and I'll put one aside for you.

Richard.C wrote:and poop,so far the blotchies are before my western female

That Western is still hanging on? Wow!

I agree with Fatal - those are some of the best looking BTS out there. Congrats on the babies, they are huge and very nice looking!! That one especially is unbelievable, I hope we see more photos of it as it grows up. Thanks for sharing these, I love goldfields!

Gorgeous! I am jealous as usual. Can't wait to see how they develop now that I saw how last years turned out.

Dang, you are killing me with those awesome photos of those incredible skinks!!!!

not sure when they bred,re that western lass ,kat,my indoor temperate stuff normally follows outdoor weather,so mid to late march into april like my stumpies id say

I look forward to these pictures every year. Can we have more?

Juuuust a little late to the party..

Very nice looking, now I'm wondering... Do you accept visitors ?

Congratulations! They are beautiful!