my first skink..Mordecai

[theDregs]

My son (9) has been saving for a lizard for months. His has wanted a BTS for ever but had faced the realization that one was pretty much out of his financial reach. He had decided on a crestie instead.

Turns out that someone in my local area was selling en entire setup for 75 dollars! It included everything except the UVB bulb for the fixture. I checked the little guy out. Seems to be perfectly healthy..alert, docile, eating, has all it's finger and toe tips, etc. I think, according to research here, that it is an Indonesian?

It has been eating dog food with pureed fruits and veggies. I plan to keep it on the same diet ( i'll probably just cut up the fruit instead of pureeing it, though), with the addition of dubia and superworms, since I already feed those to my tegu.

What do you guys think? Oh, he's actually a light grey, though the picture makes him look pinkish. And "he" may very well be a "she".

[Scincoides]

That's a beautiful skinks and a great price. Looks like a Meraukes. Take a couple birds eye view pics of the skink and we may be able to give you an idea on gender

[Seadation]

Nice skink! Love the silver colors

[Scincoides]

I'm waiting for Dakota to chime in.. I know he can smell gigas pictures.

[Linnea]

Hello and welcome
really cute merauke! (i think, but im rather certain)

id cut out the fruit from the meals and only feed it as a treat, it is a lot of sugar to a small lizard

also, dont forget to take a look at the food chart for ideas on what to mix into the food. i was the worst at vegetables before i got my skinks, but now i can make several interesting meals that, without the dog food, is appreciated by homo sapiens as well!
http://bluetongueskinks.net/foodchart.html

not pureeing is a good idea. purees are very soft, they need to bite a little and use their jaws too, even if they dont chew but cut the veggies to small pieces nevertheless.

[Susann]

Merauke for sure. Congrats! Good looking fella. Impossible to tell sex from that picture, but if you put a gun to my head, I might through out the guess of ...male.

[Richard.C]

yep that be a merauke,dakota must be having his hour sleep for the day,lol

looks in great shape,nice score for that price,welcome to bts.net

[Scincoides]

It is odd that he hasn't said anything... at the very least I expected him to try to convince everyone that its a IJ....

[El Lobo]

He is probably still in the crypt waiting for the light to pass.

[theDregs]

Thanks! I thought he looked like a Merauke, but I didn't want to get fancy. He is currently burried ynder a pile of aspen shavings. We decided to leave him alone for a day or two, since he peed on both of us.

Hopefully he becomes tame enough to hang out in the living room with us, like the tegu.

[Fatal_S]

That is a beautiful skink, wow

Pretty sure ML and Dakota are going to show up and start a bidding war. You might want to erase any reference to what state (even country) you live in...

[Scincoides]

He should tame down very nicely after some time to settle in.

Fatal, that's some solid advice.

[donkeybuff]

Dakota's too busy leafing through the bible and trying to zoom in on that picture to count the scales. He has no time to post!

[Scincoides]

I don't think Dakota has a bluey bible yet.

[Dakota]

Hey, people have to get their beauty sleep every once in a while.

Yes, definitely a Merauke, I LOVE the grey-ish tones, as well. If I had to guess form the photo, I think male.

[Scincoides]

Oh my goodness. Soak it up people. He just admitted that a Merauke is a merauke, not the product of some awful act between five ij's and a merauke. "Its a IJ x merauke IJ x IJ x IJx IJ that just happens to look like a merauke! You can tell by all the scale shaped circles that I drew all over its face! See?!" sorry Dakota... you've been gone a while and I had no one to pick on

[Dakota]

That was every bit of an IJ!!!!!

[Scincoides]

Mmmhhmmmm sure Dakota whatever you say man.

[Dakota]

It was..

[Dakota]

He is probably still in the crypt waiting for the light to pass.

You know too well..