BLUE TONGUE SKINKS

A couple of Rex








A couple of Olive

I LOVE the one of Olive snoozing in the water bowl! That is too cute!

And Raptor!
He has been sick now for about a year...the vet thinks he might have a respiratory defect that has gotten worse as he's aged.
He is eating great, gaining weight ( he weighs 452g), and has good color.
The vet is really stumped


BTW...we have tried antibiotics, holistic medicine, ect...

I keep forgetting that you have a merauke!

Great photos!

Rex is such a stud! Too bad about Raptor. I feel your pain. My vets also think that Popsicle has a respiratory defect. Basically, she has a really strange breathing pattern. They have tried every treatment, and nothing has been successful. After being on meds for an extended period of time, we were a little concerned that the medications were being hard on her organs. So, we made the decision to stop them. She has been drug free for over two years. She still has that strange breathing pattern, but otherwise she appears comfortable. She eats well and is very active.

Marie wrote:Rex is such a stud! Too bad about Raptor. I feel your pain. My vets also think that Popsicle has a respiratory defect. Basically, she has a really strange breathing pattern. They have tried every treatment, and nothing has been successful. After being on meds for an extended period of time, we were a little concerned that the medications were being hard on her organs. So, we made the decision to stop them. She has been drug free for over two years. She still has that strange breathing pattern, but otherwise she appears comfortable. She eats well and is very active.

Raptor has been off of antibiotics for about 6 months...They didn't work at all.
Raptor sounds "congested" but in every other way he is fine.
It's been very frustrating for both of us

Poor Raptor! Is it a possibility that he just breates noisily, (you know, like those mouth-breathing people whose noses are always stopped up from allergies or whatever? Or maybe they just like breathing through their mouths, I dunno! I'm a nose-breather myself. . . )
Or did the vet actually find something that you guys just can't seem to pinpoint?
By the way, Rex looks HUGE! What a chunka-lunk of love!

I love all the pictures especially the one of Rex laying in his bowl.
I can never get my skinks to do that!
Would be very cute to see!

Thanks for sharing

f.C

SailleSkinklover wrote:Poor Raptor! Is it a possibility that he just breates noisily, (you know, like those mouth-breathing people whose noses are always stopped up from allergies or whatever? Or maybe they just like breathing through their mouths, I dunno! I'm a nose-breather myself. . . )
Or did the vet actually find something that you guys just can't seem to pinpoint?
By the way, Rex looks HUGE! What a chunka-lunk of love!

Rex is 20 inches and 850g...He has actually dropped weight, he used to weigh 920g.
He is my big cuddle baby

Raptor definately has a problem...just not sure what.
The vet says he is stumped...and my vet is very good.

Funda wrote:I love all the pictures especially the one of Rex laying in his bowl.
I can never get my skinks to do that!
Would be very cute to see!

Thanks for sharing

f.C

Thanks...I love showing off my babies
A few of my babies do that...but the one doing it in the pic is actually Olive my Merauke.

SkinkysMom wrote:

Funda wrote:I love all the pictures especially the one of Rex laying in his bowl.
I can never get my skinks to do that!
Would be very cute to see!

Thanks for sharing

f.C

Thanks...I love showing off my babies
A few of my babies do that...but the one doing it in the pic is actually Olive my Merauke.

Oh..well olive is just as adorable

f.C

SkinkysMom wrote:

SailleSkinklover wrote:Poor Raptor! Is it a possibility that he just breates noisily, (you know, like those mouth-breathing people whose noses are always stopped up from allergies or whatever? Or maybe they just like breathing through their mouths, I dunno! I'm a nose-breather myself. . . )
Or did the vet actually find something that you guys just can't seem to pinpoint?
By the way, Rex looks HUGE! What a chunka-lunk of love!

Rex is 20 inches and 850g...He has actually dropped weight, he used to weigh 920g.
He is my big cuddle baby

Raptor definately has a problem...just not sure what.
The vet says he is stumped...and my vet is very good.

What sort of sounds does Raptor make exactly? TQ (my tanimbar) breathes differently than the rest...he even whistles loudly thru his nostrils.


Thanks SO MUCH for the Rex pictures! I've never seen a BTS with a nose as blunt as his. He's so cool; I want to meet him one day.

Zach wrote:

SkinkysMom wrote:

SailleSkinklover wrote:Poor Raptor! Is it a possibility that he just breates noisily, (you know, like those mouth-breathing people whose noses are always stopped up from allergies or whatever? Or maybe they just like breathing through their mouths, I dunno! I'm a nose-breather myself. . . )
Or did the vet actually find something that you guys just can't seem to pinpoint?
By the way, Rex looks HUGE! What a chunka-lunk of love!

Rex is 20 inches and 850g...He has actually dropped weight, he used to weigh 920g.
He is my big cuddle baby

Raptor definately has a problem...just not sure what.
The vet says he is stumped...and my vet is very good.

What sort of sounds does Raptor make exactly? TQ (my tanimbar) breathes differently than the rest...he even whistles loudly thru his nostrils.


Thanks SO MUCH for the Rex pictures! I've never seen a BTS with a nose as blunt as his. He's so cool; I want to meet him one day.

He sounds like he has an RI, he will also seem to gasp at times.
Like I said it's been a year of this, very frustrating

Your welcom for REX pics, he just shed and looks so pretty

nice pictures.

How old is Raptor, and also, does anybody smoke in your household?

SailleSkinklover wrote:How old is Raptor, and also, does anybody smoke in your household?

Raptor is 2yrs old.
No smokers in my home.
We don't use any air "fresheners" (Perfumes give me headaches)
So basically a fragrance free home.

Just curious, Have you had Raptor all his life? Or did he have a previous owner that may have kept him in a cedar enclosure? I ask because I just learned (from Kyle) that Cedar is way bad for the respiratory system of skinks.

Di

mom22wins wrote:Just curious, Have you had Raptor all his life? Or did he have a previous owner that may have kept him in a cedar enclosure? I ask because I just learned (from Kyle) that Cedar is way bad for the respiratory system of skinks.

Di

I got Raptor as a baby from Ray.