a newbie with a question

[AneesasMuse]

Welcome to the forum!

I recall the caresheet going into some detail about how to prepare chicken and various meats for your Bluey.

Your Beardie is very cute, btw.

[Funda]

Hey again Flodder.
I see you posted pictures
Your breadie looks like a handsome young devil, if you ask me!
Love his colours and the way his enclosure is set up!

f.C

[kris21]

Beautiful little beardie and the enclosure sounds great...i'd like to own it
My blueys do a bit of climbing, i don't have a lot of high things in the enclosure but they do climb up on what i have...logs etc.

Welcome to the group

Kris

[Floddermousie]

thanks everyone

next questions: concerning the kind of blue skink
on the site I read there are many different types/subspecies
I have searched far and wide but I can only find 2 species available here in Belgium and the Netherlands, which are Tiliqua scincoides intermedia and the chimaera. I believe you call them Northern and Taninbar, respectivly, but everybody here used the latin terms.

The intermedia is probably the best one for me to buy, right?
Because the chimaera is a lot more feisty, bity, hissy?
The intermedia is calmer, right?
I knows they look a bit different but for me character is more important...

Ow and if anyone knows how much a baby skink should weigh? (more or less) At what age are they ready to be sold? I have seen some for sale wich were only 2 weeks old...?

sooo many questions

[Funda]

I think it was the Northern.
I've heard that they make great pets for the people that are new to this whole blue tonegue skink thing.
But not quit sure.

f.C

[kvega92]

I cook chicken for Tink and he enjoys it. He also likes beef. I think he perfers the beef to the chicken. zI like doing beef because you dont have to add anything to cook it. I think that when a lot of people first begin with their blueys they start with crickets. At least I did becuase that is what the pet shop told me that I needed. I went and bought a keeper and food for the crickets and my bluey never ate one single cricket. I got all stressed that he was not eating and then I found this forum and learned more. Your beardie is beautiful.

[Jenn]

I would definetly reccomend the northern as your first skink. They are much calmer and docile. Tanimbars can be sweet but it takes more work to get them that way and they are more skitish.

6 of my skinks are in sliding glass fronts cages and unless you leave them cracked open the skinks can't move them and trust me some of my guys have tried. But leave it cracked and if they put the effort in they can move it.

[Floddermousie]

I would definetly reccomend the northern as your first skink. They are much calmer and docile. Tanimbars can be sweet but it takes more work to get them that way and they are more skitish.

6 of my skinks are in sliding glass fronts cages and unless you leave them cracked open the skinks can't move them and trust me some of my guys have tried. But leave it cracked and if they put the effort in they can move it.

thanks for the info, a northern (intermedia) it is!
if anyone knows belgium or dutch breeders, let me know!

[Lucifer_Spades]

I would definetly reccomend the northern as your first skink. They are much calmer and docile. Tanimbars can be sweet but it takes more work to get them that way and they are more skitish.

6 of my skinks are in sliding glass fronts cages and unless you leave them cracked open the skinks can't move them and trust me some of my guys have tried. But leave it cracked and if they put the effort in they can move it.

thanks for the info, a northern (intermedia) it is!
if anyone knows belgium or dutch breeders, let me know!

Johan's from Belgium isn't he? Does he breed any?

[Floddermousie]

Johan's from Belgium isn't he? Does he breed any?

i dunno
who is johan?

[Zach]

He's an original member; I'll try to let him know about this thread.

[suez]

Hi flodder welcome about your beardie he is lovely but you can keep him and not feed crickets. silkworms/butterworms/calciworms /phoenixworms all available on net packed full of calcium great feeder insects and the beardies love them you need never use crickets again my Loui thats my skink loves all of these foods also.as for the chicken i boil the chicken in water until there is no pink visible i do a whole breast then freeze it so its always available. By the way your enclosure looks fab
suez

[bluetonguemad]

just thought i should come and add my 2 cents for all its worth, as i have no experience in any reptile except turtles, this probably wont help...

beardies can be kept without crickets, you just need to find a good enough replacement, they wouldnt eat them all the time in the wild and such...

those pictures are gorgeous, im so jelous..

welome all the same and i hope you really enjoy it

also O.T but i have been to belgium and all of that area of europe, its a very lovely place, switzerland was great i loved the mountains.

oh well i hope you have a great time...