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Centralian blue-tongue skink

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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Blotched bluetongue skink

Blue Tongue Skink Care Sheet

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

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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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