True Fire Skink?

[adamanteus]

Esther, she really is lovely! What a beautiful face!

[drache]

nice looking BTS
looks pretty mellow as well

[GarterGuy]

Everybody, meet my beautiful girl, Tallulah:



She does have a proper tail but the end is hidden in the pictures. I believe she's an Irian Jaya.

Actually looks a lot like my Northern. Too bad you're not closer, she'd make a nice girlfriend for him.....LOL.

[Sputnik]

Thank you all.

Do you think Tallulah is a Northern, too, then? Despite my best intentions of asking 1000s of questions at the reptile shop and getting them all answered, I bought her without the guy being able to answer them all. Ifell in love wit her and would have had to take her whatever. Was a bit od though for the guy not to know more about her. Grrr. I tried identifying her via the pics on the bluetongueskink.net site.

If I lived closer, yes I would certainly get her to meet your treasure! Would be wonderful to breed from her.

[GarterGuy]

Yeh, looks a lot like my big boy Bane....here's a full pic of him.


He's a little lighter, but the pattern pretty much looks the same. If I remember correctly the Irian Jaya has more red to it, but I'm honestly a much better snake person then bluetongue person....LOL.

[Sputnik]

To be honest, I think his pattern is quite different from Tallulah's, lol.
The lines on her back are more solid and brown. I might be brave and post on the b.t.s. forum, maybe they can shed some light.

[Lori P]

Oh wow Rosina, Tallulah is gorgeous!!! (I have a goat named Tallulah!) I bet she's going to be loads of fun!!! Definitely keep sending pics!!!

I have a skink-- he is, I believe, a Schnieder's skink. I rescued him from an aquaintance's kid who was keeping him in a dark closet in one of those little plastic critter carriers, no bedding, no water, no heat... you get the idea. I named him Eddie Lizard. :-) He's SO cool.... he eats pretty much everything you give him (including my fingers if I'm not quick enough, lol) from veggies to fruits to all kinds of feeder insects to pinkies... and since we raise our own meat animals here, I feel comfortable giving him bits of raw beef, chicken or goat (I wouldn't do that if I had to buy meat from the store tho).

He spends most of his time buried in the sand, but when he's out he climbs and explores like crazy. I have him in a 55 gallon tank, and he really uses every bit of it. And he's such a hoot, he watches the dogs thru his tank with a look on his face that says, "As soon as I can figure my way out of this jail you will be my next meal..." LOL I think I'D be his next meal if he could fit more than a finger in his mouth!!!!

Here's a pic... :-)

[GarterGuy]

Skinks are just so cool! Esther, I'd go ahead and pick some brains on the blue tongue forum. They'd probably have a much better idea about the various subspecies (I think Irian Jaya is a subspecies???) then I would. I love my big head to death, but still just a GarterGuy.

[Stefan-A]

Here's a pic... :-)

Nice boar skull.

[Lori P]

LOL!! That is-- er, was-- a male potbelly pig. As you can see, if you look between his eyes, he died if lead poisoning... ok, sorry, that's so bad!! (sheepish) Actually, he had to be put down due to an illness, and I do have a fascination with skulls, so when that happens we have a place we lay them in the woods until nature leaves us with a nice clean skull.

It's really cool to watch Eddie climb all thru it! He rubs on the teeth to help shed.