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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]