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  • Northern Blue-tongue Skink Breeding 2020 — A Review in Photos
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Northern Blue Tongue Skink Colony — Males

Here are photos of some of the current males with information on their ages, behavior, and background.

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Northern Blue Tongue Skink Colony — Females

Photo galleries of some of my females, their ages and dispositions, and breeding summary up through 2019.

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Blue Tongue Skink Care Sheet

A Blue Tongue Care Sheet -- with information on housing, lighting, and diet.

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Baby Blue-tongue Diet Recipe This recipe is not ancient or sacrosanct, and I am sure it can be modified and even improved upon. I would be happy to listen to potential upgrades if other keepers have suggestions! The important thing is my baby skinks have been flourishing on it, and […]

Baby Blue-tongue skink ‘Muscle Builder’ Glop Recipe

Feeding the Little Rascals Fortunately, healthy baby blue-tongues are almost always voracious feeders. Even when nervous about you lurking menacingly nearby, their appetites usually overcome their fears. In my experience, there are a couple of common questionable assumptions about blue-tongue skink diets in captivity: one is that they eat a […]

Feeding and Caring for Your Baby Blue-tongue Skink

Baby photos and prices are posted below. I’m posting photos of the parents first so you can see potential adult colors. Posting 3 litters that are ready to go to new homes now. Three more litters from different parents will be posted in two weeks after the babies have a […]

Northern Bluetongue Skink Babies – 2021 All-Stars

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First batch of babies caught me by surprise because it was none of the gravid females that seemed most primed. The mother, Elektra, is a young 3-year old that was produced by a breeder back East and is reputedly of Turner – White & Sunset stock. These are ‘lineage’ terms […]

Northern Blue-Tongue Skink Babies — May 2021

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How do you know when a female is gravid?   The females shown in the photos below all bred from February 1st to February 11th, 2021. By May 10th, approximately 90 to 100 days have passed from the breeding season, and the females are in the last stages of pregnancy. […]

Gravid Females — May 10th, 2021

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In lizards and snakes the males have two penises, which are known as hemipenes. (Turtles and tortoises have lost the plot and only have one — like the monkeys and naked apes and such.) The Squamata, the order comprising snakes, lizards and amphisbaenians, wisely keep their hemipenes in an internal […]

Sex Lives of Skinks

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T. s. intermedia metabolic bone disease

I purchased a Northern Blue-tongue skink that was captive born sometime in the summer of 2018. The skink was around 6-months when I acquired it, and clearly displayed serious health issues. The lizard had been raised by an inexperienced keeper who knew little about blue-tongue skinks, and had only cared […]

Diet Problems and Metabolic Bone Disease in Tiliqua Skinks

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One of my young Northern blue-tongues deposited an interesting gauzy material in its water bowl. When I first saw it I thought it might be a sperm plug. However, it doesn’t look like tubules of coagulated sperm, which are normally viscous and opaque.   It looks more like a slough […]

Sperm Plug Anyone?

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Tiliqua occipitalus

Is spermatozoa retention in Tiliqua for long periods a possible reproductive strategy? For captive blue-tongue skink breeding projects, and just a general understanding of Tiliqua reproduction in the wild, it would be important to discover if viable spermatozoa could be carried across breeding seasons. I’m not aware of any examples […]

Long Term Retention of Spermatozoa in Tiliqua?

I’d like to write a testimonial to my late friend, the German herpetologist Ludwig Trutnau. Ludwig published around a dozen books on lizards, snakes and crocodilians. Several of his books are only available in German, but several have been translated successfully into English. This is just a placeholder … full […]

A Testimonial to Ludwig Trutnau

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  • Female Northern Bluetongue Breeders — 2023
  • Northern Blue Tongue Skink Colony — Females
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  • The Captive Blue-tongue Skink Diet — An Overview
  • What Do Blue Tongue Skinks Eat in the Wild?

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