She is not ready

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She is not ready

Postby freeloader » Mon Jul 27, 2015 5:18 pm

She is not ready Richard. Will have to try and establish living pattern for her as the owner has her on 24hr heat.
Wait until next season to see if we can work out her window. My one just isn't interested so will leave him until next season. Still think mine looks female though.
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Re: She is not ready

Postby MechHAN » Mon Jul 27, 2015 9:51 pm

Wow...are they albino skink?
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Re: She is not ready

Postby NickBrahz » Mon Jul 27, 2015 10:13 pm

Nice looking skinks you got there, i see you got the camo model for your tiles.
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Re: She is not ready

Postby freeloader » Tue Jul 28, 2015 2:19 am

Hypo nothern blue tongues.
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Re: She is not ready

Postby Dakota » Tue Jul 28, 2015 2:55 am

Did this line come out of the wild or was it a random mutation in captive propagation?
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Re: She is not ready

Postby freeloader » Tue Jul 28, 2015 4:17 pm

The major development of this type was done by a person in Darwin a Mr. Coward, am unsure if a foundation animal was used or selective line breeding. Will try and find out more or if anyone has more information feel welcome to add.
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Re: She is not ready

Postby Richard.C » Wed Jul 29, 2015 9:38 am

Scott,that first pic is telling me he thinks shes ready,i have a couple of mine on 24 hour heat and they seem to follow the no night heat ones,and the actual low ambients of cage even with a hot spot available,they appear to use the ambient drop to there advantage either way ,so i wouldnt write it off just yet
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Re: She is not ready

Postby Richard.C » Wed Jul 29, 2015 9:44 am

From memory i believe mr coward bred these from wild darwins,i recall on a forum him mentioning the wild ones were throwing the odd hypo baby back when they were first breeding them and working on the line

From all accounts hypo over hypo serms to be a challenge to successfully breed consistently ,this form i think is a super hypo form,theres also a hypo form i believe thats more normal darwin looking but minus any black

I could be wrong there but that was my understanding of it with out looking deep into it
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Re: She is not ready

Postby freeloader » Thu Jul 30, 2015 3:12 am

Thanks for that Richard. Better pics of the two hypo. Outdoors, no flash and overcast day.
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Re: She is not ready

Postby Dakota » Thu Jul 30, 2015 5:07 am

Insane. It would have been really cool if this was a locality. That last photo looks like an oddly shaped silver phase Tanimbar. Nice skinks.
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Re: She is not ready

Postby Richard.C » Thu Jul 30, 2015 5:15 am

I believe origionally they were a locality type animal dakota,but alot have been put over any old northerns over a number of years and i cant say ive ever seen any labled as a specific locality type northern,as people are still trying to establish the line and the lines labled hypo northern because of this

Both look great scott,milky white,one of these daus im going to have to bite the bullet and try some out
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Re: She is not ready

Postby freeloader » Thu Jul 30, 2015 5:34 am

Thanks Dakota. Thought i would post some decent pics of the two of them to show their true colour. Haven't given up on these two breeding this year Richard. I think another year of growing will do him good. I am not sure whether the owner of the female is happy to have a Northern put over her. Then grow the off spring to breed with her. I am not keen on putting my big northern over her as the marks he leaves on her don't look good. Especially when you have a light coloured animal like her and is owned by someone else.
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Re: She is not ready

Postby Richard.C » Sat Aug 01, 2015 12:53 am

Yeah big males can be rough as guts enough on normal coloured fenales

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