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Anomaly or abnormality?

Postby Lisa » Sun Aug 12, 2007 9:51 pm

I was just going through some photos I took of Santos on the weekend, and I noticed he has a funny little scale that appears on both sides of his face. On his top lip, I've drawn arrows to them.

Now everytime I look at him or a photo of him my eye is drawn straight to it. At least it's on both sides so he's uniform. It'd drive me crazy if not!
It reminds me of a weird slack jawed yokel kind of tooth poking through. Hyuck Hyuck.

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You can see it well in this one, too
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I can't believe I've only spotted it now because looking back on old photos, he's always had them.

So, does anyone else have one that's got something unusual in their scales?
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Postby Omega » Sun Aug 12, 2007 10:10 pm

My guess would be that it's nothing to worry about if it's on both sides(hopefully there isn't some sort of symmetric disease outbreak i'm not aware of or something, haha). Awesome looking lizard btw!
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Postby AneesasMuse » Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:25 am

You're gonna give that baby a complex... he's cute with his little "hyuck hyuck" scales on both sides :D
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Postby KyleWeiss » Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:39 am

Santos is fine.

Silly Lisa. :lol:

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Postby Richard.C » Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:24 am

looks like a normal yockle stumper to me lisa,lol,hes quite a looker to,if he had a blade of wheat hangin out of his mouth,no female stumpy could refuse him
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Postby DeadEye » Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:37 am

Sweet Lisa

All the boys well 99% have a double line of scale,s there ill show you some close ups ,ive got of the same thing on the older males .

No dramma Mate , first i though he had some red ribbon in his mouth ..lol
My eye sight HAHAHAH he,s a champion ...It had me perplexed the more you look at it ... :wink: Males bite for extra shoulder grips lol. J/k


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Postby Leigh » Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:00 am

I thought your little fella was growing his jaw to get down more of that tastey nosh you feed .
MMMmmmmm... Something???????
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Postby Jenn » Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:23 am

KyleWeiss wrote:Santos is fine.

Silly Lisa. :lol:

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I agree! But atleast Lisa's silly worring got us more Santos' pictures!!!
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Postby kris21 » Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:26 am

My Bronson has the same thing, its like a freak scale on both sides of his mouth. His are in a different spot though but still the same kinda thing so it must be normal.

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Postby kris21 » Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:28 am

Santos is cool, anyone reckon he looks like Darth Vader or something?

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Postby Dragontears » Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:15 am

I've noticed a few bllueys with odd lip scales. One of the gigas that I checked out in Portland had 2 rows of lip scales on one side of her face. Nothing to worry about, it just gives them a little more personality and uniqueness.
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Postby Dragontears » Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:21 am

This is what I was talking about:

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Postby Lisa » Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:19 pm

Oh no, I didn't think there was anything wrong with him!! It just drives me to distraction now that I know they're there! I'm weird about things like that.

But I wonder, in the Bluey Bible, one of the determining factors in identifying the different types of blue tongues is a scale count on their heads & faces. Maybe I have a new species of shingleback??? :wink:

That's a good looking Gigas, Renee. He looks like butter wouldn't melt! Although those extra scales do make him look like he's snarling :lol:
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Postby aggiegirl » Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:33 pm

Lisa, if Santos' scales continue driving you to distractions, feel free to smuggle the little guy over here!!! :lol: :lol: I have always wanted to feel/hold a shingleback. I don't even know where I can see one around here! Definitely on my list of things to do before I die! :wink:
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Postby DeadEye » Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:30 pm

Jenn wrote:
KyleWeiss wrote:Santos is fine.

Silly Lisa. :lol:

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I agree! But atleast Lisa's silly worring got us more Santos' pictures!!!


Yes he,s cuteness is of the scale
Lisa ..My misses is drooling at his jet black & white spots
we only get them in shark bay

thanks ill get a close up of some asap . :wink:
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Postby boonaen » Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:08 pm

his face is going to fall off in 7 days...
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