Post Pictures of Your Skinks: Part II

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Re: Post Pictures of Your Skinks: Part II

Postby IvanDanko » Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:23 pm

Thanks :D

He's a high-patterned lowland Blotched BTS. Easy way to remember them is they look a bit like leopard print camouflage.

Lowland = Black and brown/tan colours, with some very southern variants even displaying a grey colour such as Phillip Island and Tasmanian localities
Highland = Greater black with yellow (mostly within highlands Victoria up to the Snowy Mountains periphery)
Highland Alpine = Greater black with orange/pink (Victoria and NSW Snowy Mountains region and periphery)

There's a great directory of visual examples on one of the forum threads here also.
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Re: Post Pictures of Your Skinks: Part II

Postby rixusaku » Wed Jun 23, 2021 11:46 pm

Yeah! I just want to be able to remember them lol. Thank you for the info! Blotched blue tongues are so pretty
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Re: Post Pictures of Your Skinks: Part II

Postby ThisName » Thu Jun 24, 2021 2:22 pm

IvanDanko, he has such a cute round nose!

I mentioned my 'leg biting skink' in another thread. Thought I might as well just post the gifs here.

Skink logic:
- Crawl over half a kilo of blueberries, just to get one (1) blackberry
- You feed me blackberries = YOU ARE THE BLACKBERRY *chomps*

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The last gif he's like: I was obviously licking your leg, my jaw just slipped... *awkwardly looks away*

(And yes, I enjoy teasing him quite a bit. Image
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Re: Post Pictures of Your Skinks: Part II

Postby sassyp666 » Fri Jun 25, 2021 3:17 am

That is soooo cute. Really jealous. I'm waiting to try and buy a baby northern BTS, I'm looking around at the moment. So hopefully not too long now. :thumbs:
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Re: Post Pictures of Your Skinks: Part II

Postby IvanDanko » Fri Jun 25, 2021 5:33 pm

Thanks ThisName!

That's the greatest gif series ever :lol: Clearly blackberries are very high up the fruit hierarchy! Love seeing a vibrant and active skink.
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Re: Post Pictures of Your Skinks: Part II

Postby sassyp666 » Wed Jun 30, 2021 10:45 am

Hi all,

Tomorrow morning I will be a proud mom to a northern baby BTS.

This is a pic of him....or her. :ohyes: [album][/album]
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Re: Post Pictures of Your Skinks: Part II

Postby rixusaku » Fri Jul 09, 2021 3:37 pm

Noodle has finally outgrown his basking hide and I am now in need of acquiring another XD

He's 22" now. I'm thinking I'm going to pick up some slate rock from a hardware store or gardening store and either silicon the slabs together or using cement/grout.

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Re: Post Pictures of Your Skinks: Part II

Postby IvanDanko » Fri Jul 09, 2021 8:12 pm

He definitely needs the extra surface area :lol:

Also FYI slate etc. is actually quite easy to break into smaller pieces to make a DIY mound/platform if it saves you buying several perfectly sized smaller pieces. There's a few youtube videos if you go down that path.
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Re: Post Pictures of Your Skinks: Part II

Postby rixusaku » Tue Jul 13, 2021 8:29 am

I do have some checked out ;3 Thanks Ivan!
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Re: Post Pictures of Your Skinks: Part II

Postby tbcorbett » Thu Jul 15, 2021 7:56 am

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My big 'ol baby!!!!!!! She'll be two months old in ten days!!
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Re: Post Pictures of Your Skinks: Part II

Postby rixusaku » Thu Jul 15, 2021 12:59 pm

So prettyyyy!
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Re: Post Pictures of Your Skinks: Part II

Postby tbcorbett » Thu Jul 15, 2021 4:33 pm

rixusaku wrote:So prettyyyy!


THANK YOU!!! She's my lil dummy potato!!!!!!!
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Re: Post Pictures of Your Skinks: Part II

Postby SpookyLighthouse » Sun Jul 18, 2021 12:26 pm

Here's my baby Atlas! I'm kind of obsessed with him.

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Re: Post Pictures of Your Skinks: Part II

Postby Zilla » Sat Aug 14, 2021 10:30 am

Heres my new Indonesian blue tongue skink, 8 months old!
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Re: Post Pictures of Your Skinks: Part II

Postby Zilla » Sun Aug 15, 2021 12:12 pm

Sorry didn't manage to attach before, heres my 8 month old Zuri! Got him/ her a week ago and settling in well.
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Re: Post Pictures of Your Skinks: Part II

Postby treebeardgoddess » Wed Sep 01, 2021 12:31 pm

My first skink - say hi to Durin!
He's a Halmahera (CBB) and he is a bit feisty, but super curious about his surroundings.
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He is 5 months old now and already so big!
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Re: Post Pictures of Your Skinks: Part II

Postby rixusaku » Wed Sep 01, 2021 3:02 pm

Here's some updates on Noodle because I love him so much and he's so cute and he's starting to enjoy his new enclosure!

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Re: Post Pictures of Your Skinks: Part II

Postby Hexotics » Fri Sep 03, 2021 11:49 pm

This is Sushi roll. He is CB (not CBB) has a great personality and is super cute. All his siblings had defined black bands but his pattern is much different then them. We bought him as a sorong locality I’m not sure about his exact sub species though he looks so different!

he is really cute though and has a fantastic friendly personality!
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Re: Post Pictures of Your Skinks: Part II

Postby Flightyknighty » Thu Sep 16, 2021 4:07 pm

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This is Kermit and we believe he's a Indonesian possibly a Halmahera??

Is that correct. P.s we have changed his substrate etc as our local reptile store sold us the wrong bits and bobs.
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Re: Post Pictures of Your Skinks: Part II

Postby LeapingLizards » Mon Oct 25, 2021 4:16 pm

This is my Northern Audie's enclosure, a 40 gallon breeder (I do plan to upgrade when he/she gets a bit bigger.) :D

Edit: I thought I posted this in the enclosure pics, eep.
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