BLUE TONGUE SKINKS

Out for a wander. Found the cat food that was left uneaten. Can't waste food!

No, cat's weren't in the room while he was lose. Yes, I'm a horrible owner that feeds cat food that is high in taurine and protein to skinks (on occasion!!).

Is Phoenix always so "lean"?

You should post pictures of all your skinks, Katrina!

xxmonitorlizardxx wrote:Is Phoenix always so "lean"?

Of course, criticize. Umm, actually Phoenix has over doubled in size / weight since I got him. But he's always been tiny, no matter how much I feed or how often he is impossible to plump up. But you know this, since you have followed my posts and my struggles with trying to plump him up and try to get him to grow.

I think he looks healthy, beautiful coloration!

Holy geeze, Kat, he's stunning!!!

Fatal_S wrote:Holy geeze, Kat, he's stunning!!!

Truley. I love how much variety they come in. This little dude has very thin black bands, and my Merauke has semi-thin, black out-lining, with brown/orange scales here and there.
I'm starting to fall for the Meraukes!

Amazing colour in that one.

Careful with that one or you might end up with true patternless Gigas!

Katrina wrote:Of course, criticize. Umm, actually Phoenix has over doubled in size / weight since I got him. But he's always been tiny, no matter how much I feed or how often he is impossible to plump up. But you know this, since you have followed my posts and my struggles with trying to plump him up and try to get him to grow.

I was only asking lol
He is by far one of my top five favorite Meraukes I have seen though!

He's adorable I love how clean and regular his markings are! I'm a sucker for clean regular lines )

xxmonitorlizardxx wrote:

Katrina wrote:Of course, criticize. Umm, actually Phoenix has over doubled in size / weight since I got him. But he's always been tiny, no matter how much I feed or how often he is impossible to plump up. But you know this, since you have followed my posts and my struggles with trying to plump him up and try to get him to grow.

I was only asking lol
He is by far one of my top five favorite Meraukes I have seen though!

Sorry, ML! I might be sensitive to this, because he is such a tough customer. Almost impossible to get him to gain weight. He's very slowly growing, but he's a few years old at this point. Obviously no parasites or health issues. Just tiny. But when I let him out he eats left over cat food like ive been starving him. Lol.

Did he ever have parasites at any point?

xxmonitorlizardxx wrote:Did he ever have parasites at any point?

No, no health issues ever found.

It must be the dog food J/K
At least hes progressing and not losing weight.
His head looks huge!

I love how elegantly he stuck out his leg, lmaoooo.

Beautiful skink, cute photo! My cats would not allow this,lol, they eat everything at once anyway!

might just be me but i think he looks in good shape,might just be a smaller lad,health wise he looks great,some males always look like they could put some weight on,lean boof headed look,in the wild they often look like that,not big fatties like alot of captives

Kat just needs to send him to Jeff's place...he has some special ionizer in the air or something that forces skinks to eat like mad! I take them back and they won't eat the EXACT same thing they were eating at his place like it was going out of style!!!

Many males I have had just won't bulk up appearance wise, but they are usually just fine in the "weight" department and plenty healthy...