Beautiful IJ on Kingsnake.

Postby **Bird_Brain** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 3:59 pm

Well, i am a sucker for IJ anyways, but man, I LOVE the colors on this guy. If only I had an extra $450

jasjmm27 · Postby **jasjmm27** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 4:03 pm

Yeah, saw that last night! Looks like he would make a nice buddy for that other IJ that was being sold for $500...(once upon a time as a Blotchie).

This one looks like another prime candidate for the "scientific naming discussion" that was going on in another thread.

Love the zebra-like striping and contrast!

Postby **Zach** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 4:05 pm

Cool! Who's selling him?

shingleback aus · Postby **shingleback aus** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 4:05 pm

nice ij the colors are gorgeous love the pattern too

Postby **Bird_Brain** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 4:25 pm

Zach wrote:Cool! Who's selling him?

Prehistoricpets.com has him for sale.

AndrewSeike · Postby **AndrewSeike** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 5:32 pm

Hi gang,

Personally I dont see it as being worth 450. If i saw it in real life - I might change my mind but if it comes from Prehistoric pets they really don't know anything about bluetongues. I just made a personal visit to them last summer and had a talk with the owner on several skinks they have on display which were completely mismarked and over-priced.

He sure had this attitude as if I had NO IDEA what skinks were. *shrug*

If you want to take a risk and get it be my guest but I have a feeling you'll see more of these "special" types elsewhere.

I also took pictures of a "hypo-indo" which they have on sale for near 2000 that looks pretty much NORMAL to me.

I'll see if I can dig up the pictures but who knows where they went after my cpu problems.

Andrew

Postby **Bird_Brain** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 5:37 pm

Hey Andew,
Thanks for your post. I agree that it is over priced just like the odd patterned IJ that Exotic pets had listed a while back. But if the skink truely looks like that, that would be one that I wouldnt mind having in my collection. But like i said, I wouldnt pay that much for it. It would have to be a very special skink before I would pay that much of it. I just thought it was interesting and thought I would share.

Marie · Postby **Marie** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 6:50 pm

To me, it just looks like a bad picture. The fact that you can't even see the scale definition in the white parts, makes it look like an over-exposure camera or photoshop issue.

Fatal_S · Postby **Fatal_S** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:38 pm

I very much agree Marie. They're also using the black background to trick the eye into making the lighter areas more white. I think this is just a light IJ they're trying to get more money off of...

RocketRocks · Postby **RocketRocks** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:22 pm

Considering my normal skink was $120, that's way overpriced. Cool though.

Fatal_S · Postby **Fatal_S** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:38 pm

"We have not been able to accurately sex this animal, so we will be selling it as an unsexed adult"

Does this meant they attempted to sex the animal? *shudder* Poor little lizard, hope they haven't done it in a way to damage it...

Funda · Postby **Funda** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:24 am

Awesome colours !!

:blueyprint:

f.C

Postby **Zach** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:10 am

Fatal_S wrote:I very much agree Marie. They're also using the black background to trick the eye into making the lighter areas more white. I think this is just a light IJ they're trying to get more money off of...

I was going to say the same thing about the black background.

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Beautiful IJ on Kingsnake.

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