Ashe (N.BTS) after shed & terrarium!

[SFBlueTongue81]

Ashe after shed

[Kbell31]

Love the light colors!

[Roheryn]

She's so light! Love your setting, are those all fake plants?

[SFBlueTongue81]

Thanks!! yes the plants are all fake. I really wanted to have real ones, but I knew it wouldn't work with humidity and make changing the substrate awful. I do have to say i'm pretty pleased with how real they look though; half are from PetCo and the rest I ordered off LLL reptiles

[Katrina]

Gorgeous!! Love the light colors and the enclosure looks great.

[vm88]

Looks great! My Hans is very light colored too. Isn't 9.5' a bit short for a 6.5 month old northern? Hans is 18' and the same age.

[SFBlueTongue81]

Thanks!!
I'm not sure if that's small for 6.5 months? I re-measured and got 10.5" so maybe she wasn't stretched out all the way before. I know she was born near the end of july.

[SFBlueTongue81]

How big was Hans when you got him?

[StaceyLeigh]

10.5" at 6.5 months seems a bit small. Ember(a Northern) who was also born the end of July, is 17". We also have a Northern named Thor who is 9 months old, and 19" long.

[vm88]

Hans was around 8" when I got him. He was almost 2 months old.

[Katrina]

I wouldn't worry too much about length and age. Just make sure the skink is healthy and no hip bones / backbone is poking out. There captive baby skinks will be much, much larger than their wild counterparts (and CBB skinks with a new owner who feed them all the time will be larger than CBB babies still with a breeder who has lots of mouths to feed and less time!) but it doesn't mean it is healthier or better. There is no rush to get them to adult size, in the wild it would probably take 2-3 years rather than 10-12 months. As long as the skink is healthy it doesn't matter if it takes a while longer to grow. Just keep offering healthy meals and don't worry if your baby is smaller than most others his age.

Kira was always tiny and I was so worried that he was not healthy because he didn't eat much and was always small. Now, at 4.5 years he is over 23"... but it took him 3-4 years to get to that size, he was only around 18" at 12 months. He also brumated for several months the first winter - panic for a brand new mom! He was only about 9" going into brumation, but all worked out well.

[SFBlueTongue81]

I just realized with the timeline Hans and Ashe (kipper) are brother/sister from the same batch?! I saw Hans name on the BTS.net website he's the same one right?

Thanks Katrina! Ashe seems to be doing great so I'm not too concerned. Ashe ate today like I hadn't fed her in 3 months even though it's only been a day! I'm far more concerned with her becoming obese at this point than growing too slowly lol.

thanks!

[vm88]

Yup! That's the same Hans. That's awesome though and definitely explains the light coloration. Hans is a bit darker though, more of a caramel coloration than a tan/gold.

[SFBlueTongue81]

Very cool! Have you posted pics of him yet?
It seems like mine is very light indeed, that's why I decided on Ashe from the pale colors, I also think It might be a girl, but maybe it's too small to show the hemipenes still?

[Katrina]

Let's see sibling pics! I love comparing BTS from the same parents.

[bella3]

He is so beautiful! Do you have any others?

[SFBlueTongue81]

Thanks! nope just the one, maybe someday but I just don't have enough space to house two right now.