BLUE TONGUE SKINKS

Check the size difference between the blotcy and the easterns,they are all about 3 months old,the baby easterns are sydney type.The blotchy pictured is 12 inches long overall,obviously ile have to feed up the easterns a bit,they are fairly healthy but could do with more weight.Ime thinking of calling one of these little easterns edward,as they appear sneaky and able to 'slink"themselves into a tight hole like rat up a drain pipe texas coyote eddy.

Nice looking mob there, I thought that blotchy in the first pic, had snack of baby eastern head on its mind

Yeh i was thinking it was a possibility leigh,the size difference is fairly radical i suppose the blotched could eat the eastern if i let it.

They make those blotchies look huge.

KW

Awesome comparison!

Zach wrote:Awesome comparison!

Yeh zac,the blotchy is about same age and 12 and a half inches long LOL yeh the easterns come from a lady up in the blue mountains near lisa that was selling them for ten dollars each if you bought more than one lizard.One of the easterns looks like jubby,the others are more orange bownish type in the bands,i got them to eat a large snail each today and they loved it,also had some mushroom,catfood and bannana with calcium sprinkled on top,edd is the fattest one that ate two snails.Cheers!

KyleWeiss wrote:They make those blotchies look huge.

KW

Yeh KW old mate,there like a southern blotchy that got a complete make over,full spray job and fed steroids,starve the lizards they could make a rocky movie,the easterns are metro sexual queer eye for the straight skink that hang around bars late at night (like edward)sipping blue tongue beer ooh ooh ooh is that you bigboy!

Do blotchies tend to be larger than easterns, or do they just grow faster?

Aww now I wanna Blotchy and an Eastern....and a western...a stumpy
ahh Just give me two of everything and I'll be happier than Noah with his silly boat

Ralphie's big bum doesn't seem so big anymore! It's in his genes

Lura wrote:Do blotchies tend to be larger than easterns, or do they just grow faster?

Good question lura,the blotchys from the NSW mountains and tablelands areas both seem to grow faster? but are definetly much bigger and longer than easterns in the areas where they both occur together.Northern form blotchys are born long and robust and females can grow over 24 inches in length and be very heavy because of the strong body.

Sold!


haha, great bunch of blueys there colin!

Gday autumn,hows ya mothers chooks going,sold you recon,OK ile send them,edward will get me off with a technically!

Ralphie was bigger than Jubby before he was a year old than Jubby full grown at over three years old. And the main difference I see between them is that the easterns have distinctive sections in head, body and tail (they have a big head, then their neck, then their body and then they curve in again to their tail), whereas the blotchies are kind of thick all the way from head to toe.

There was someone selling easterns around here? I must've missed that. I would have gotten a baby making buddy for Jubby! Oh well.
....selling any of the Ralphie babies, Colin?

The seller of the easterns is a lady at warrimoo lisa,she has an advert on petlink,still has some available i think,15 for one and 10 each for 2 or more.If you want another ralphie lisa just give me a call,ive got a few,havent been trying to sell cause i wanted to see how they turn out.

Colin Hamilton wrote:Gday autumn,hows ya mothers chooks going,sold you recon,OK ile send them,edward will get me off with a technically!

Where is the E-man, Colin? Hiding in the sand no doubt....

Lucifer_Spades wrote: Just give me two of everything and I'll be happier than Noah with his silly boat

What?!

Zach wrote:

Lucifer_Spades wrote: Just give me two of everything and I'll be happier than Noah with his silly boat

What?!

Didn't you ever see Jesus Christ Superstar?

KW

Zach wrote:

Colin Hamilton wrote:Gday autumn,hows ya mothers chooks going,sold you recon,OK ile send them,edward will get me off with a technically!

Where is the E-man, Colin? Hiding in the sand no doubt....

Lucifer_Spades wrote: Just give me two of everything and I'll be happier than Noah with his silly boat

What?!

Where is the E man zacry,whats that? Is this new world colonial jargon,did ya get the big box of blotcys i sent zac,stock up on snails LOLz

KyleWeiss wrote:

Zach wrote:

Lucifer_Spades wrote: Just give me two of everything and I'll be happier than Noah with his silly boat

What?!

Didn't you ever see Jesus Christ Superstar?

KW

We performed that at school! Oh hang on, it was Joseph & His Technicolour Raincoat we did! (...catholic school education... I bet other schools got to do cool stuff like Hair )

Colin, you came up the mtn and didn't bring me a friend for Ralphie?

Colin Hamilton wrote:

Lura wrote:Do blotchies tend to be larger than easterns, or do they just grow faster?

Good question lura,the blotchys from the NSW mountains and tablelands areas both seem to grow faster? but are definetly much bigger and longer than easterns in the areas where they both occur together.Northern form blotchys are born long and robust and females can grow over 24 inches in length and be very heavy because of the strong body.

As babies, the blotchies I've seen have been way stockier than baby easterns. Blotchies seem to get this chiselled looking, almost equilateral triangle head, whereas easterns are all slender and streamlined, with an isosceles triangle head. Doesn't surprise me that blotchies grow bigger and heavier.