BLUE TONGUE SKINKS

This is a stumpy i found at a pet shop near me as a baby,it had 2 litter mates,i swapped it for a couple of baby blotchies,its ten years old now,i got it to add nrw blood to my aspera line,but as its grown it has looked more rugosa rugosa,slim build,longer skinnier tail,and the white on flanks and legs,its tail isnt overly longer than my asperas but is longer

I believe its not an aspera,as a juvie it actually looked similar to my aspera juvies,though as it grew the more it didnt,anyways heres some pics

If your wondering why he was in with the land mullets its because he was a bit to keen on the aspera lasses,this lass hes following was mated by the aspera male whilst he was vacationing with the mullets,also aspera male dominated him a bit,nothing serious but shut his interest in the females

It looks like a rugosa to me. How do the scales compare to your aspers? the rugosa scales should be noticeably smoother.

He does have a smoothe scale look jeff,but issue is this form of aspera is pretty smoth looking as well compared to some of the bigger forms,but he does look marginally smoother

Now i need to find him a girl friend

Hes like the ugly duckling,growing up with asperas,lol,ill see if i can find some old pics of him

A few outdoor happy snaps of him

Hopefully gravid female aspera,looks likely to shed shortly

Male aspera that mated previous female,hes recently shed

Young female going into shed as we speak,not sure if gravid but also copt alot of attention from male aspera

Richard, this skink looks high...

Has alot of salt secretions around eyes and nose from brumation still there,thats the young female in last pic above,i guess that pair are mating on top of another female with young lass resting head on there back so she is high,lol

I know this is a thread about shinglebacks but it's those Land Mullets that catch my attention. It won't be popular for me to say this on a blue tongue forum but if I could breed just one type of skink in 2013, that would be the species.

Kim

I hear you there kim,hoping to do the same,havnt seen any of that behaviour,timid buggers usually hide when im about,a few times there hollow logs been a rockin,but i dinnt want to disturb them so i wasnt knockin,lol

Out of the egernias i havnt seen any mating,but im confident major skink female is up the duff,either that or shes going to implode,shes fat as and seems to be uncomfy with the late term breathing going on,but still eating alot,so wait continues