This is a habitat setup that someone designed for one of my adult Northern blue-tongue skinks. The combination of hides, basking platform and faux foliage makes for a very aesthetically pleasing terrarium. My only recommendation is to use a much larger water bowl. I use dog feeding bowls that are […]
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Is it Tame? Or Will it Rip My Hand Off!? Is it tame? This is probably the most common question that I get in regards to the bluetongue skinks that I have for sale. Most of this information applies to captive born animals, specifically Northern and Eastern bluetongues — […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]