Are these two skinks both gigas gigas

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Are these two skinks both gigas gigas

Postby Anguavimes » Fri Apr 10, 2020 3:44 pm

Hello I'm sorry if this sounds like a daft question but I am new bts owner, my son has one which he was told was an Indonesian (gigas gigas) that and she is gorgeous the bandings look almost pink whereas mine has more gold looking bands (not sure whether mine is a boy or girl) and was told that Huffy (my name for him/her) was also gigas gigas.
Can anyone tell me if this is the case.
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Re: Are these two skinks both gigas gigas

Postby Janella » Sat Apr 11, 2020 5:22 am

Your sons skink is a halamara, where it is hard to tell from your picture, but yours looks like a IJ.
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Re: Are these two skinks both gigas gigas

Postby Anguavimes » Sat Apr 11, 2020 5:14 pm

Thank you Janelle, unfortunately huffy is not as calm as my son's, and tends to head straight up to my hair to hide, but hopefully I will post some better pics soon as I think she is just the best, (not biased at all :D ), I am thinking huffy may be a girl as she was doing a slow tail swing earlier and someone said that the girls do that around the mating season?
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Re: Are these two skinks both gigas gigas

Postby Janella » Sat Apr 11, 2020 6:29 pm

Sounds good with the better pictures. And yes, some females will do that around males. So it is possible you may have a girl.
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Re: Are these two skinks both gigas gigas

Postby mb606587 » Mon Apr 13, 2020 7:46 am

Yep, top one is for sure Halmahera. Hard to be certain from that picture of Huffy but it does look Gigas gigas also, probably not Halmahera though.
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Re: Are these two skinks both gigas gigas

Postby splashy07 » Mon Apr 13, 2020 7:58 am

Yes, second one looks like classic indo to me also from the pic.

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