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09-16-14, 07:27 PM
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Indo. Blue Tongue Skink
This guy/girl has been sitting in my local Reptile Shop for months now and I jokingly asked if they'd sell me it on discount. They offered me a deal I could not pass up so... Yeah. Put a payment down to hold it for me while I set up at home.
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09-16-14, 08:50 PM
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Re: Indo. Blue Tongue Skink
Very cool lizard! Congrats!
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09-16-14, 11:10 PM
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Re: Indo. Blue Tongue Skink
Nice pick up Owl. Very handsome critter.
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09-17-14, 05:24 AM
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Re: Indo. Blue Tongue Skink
blue tongue's are really cool 
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Aho ni toriau baka!- Baka wa shinanakya naoranai...
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09-17-14, 09:40 AM
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Re: Indo. Blue Tongue Skink
Beautiful skink, congratulations!
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09-17-14, 04:59 PM
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Re: Indo. Blue Tongue Skink
Thanks, I can't wait to bring him/her home.
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09-20-14, 03:18 PM
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Re: Indo. Blue Tongue Skink
Here s/he is!
I named it Podoboo (Boo for short)
He's a grumpy little butthead but that's okay. All bark and no bite. Just a lot of huffing and hissing.
Ignore the red light. My basking light busted when I set this all up. ds,fjnsdkjfnlksdjfn
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09-22-14, 10:55 AM
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Re: Indo. Blue Tongue Skink
I like the name! Careful of the hissing and biting when he's getting ready to shed. The only time I was ever bitten by my guy was just as he was getting ready. They can pack a whallop of a bite. You may want to get a much larger water bowl. They love to soak. I just used a large ceramic dog dish, worked great. Best of luck with him, he's gorgeous.
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09-22-14, 07:13 PM
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Re: Indo. Blue Tongue Skink
Beautiful animal..another reason why I love reptiles 
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09-23-14, 06:50 PM
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Re: Indo. Blue Tongue Skink
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Originally Posted by Zoo Nanny
I like the name! Careful of the hissing and biting when he's getting ready to shed. The only time I was ever bitten by my guy was just as he was getting ready. They can pack a whallop of a bite. You may want to get a much larger water bowl. They love to soak. I just used a large ceramic dog dish, worked great. Best of luck with him, he's gorgeous.
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So far he's been hiding. Haven't seen him in days now. Kind of makes me nervous because my last BTS hid (it was a baby) constantly and then randomly died. So I get nervous now with new lizards. lol I know it's normal but it stresses me to no end.
I will get him a bigger water dish. I also feel I need to deepen the substrate as well as add a basking rock.
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09-23-14, 07:04 PM
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Re: Indo. Blue Tongue Skink
I just went to a local pet ship today and they had a juvenile BTS up for sale, 70$ . I had enough to buy it and walk out, my mom would kill me though lol. I wanted to get it sooooo bad
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09-23-14, 07:14 PM
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Re: Indo. Blue Tongue Skink
For that price, it was probably a wild caught (like mine). You'd be better off spending a bit more and getting a nice, CB Northern.
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09-23-14, 07:37 PM
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Re: Indo. Blue Tongue Skink
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Originally Posted by Little Wise Owl
For that price, it was probably a wild caught (like mine). You'd be better off spending a bit more and getting a nice, CB Northern.
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Next time I see it, I will ask. Hopefully not. I've been looking at them for a while now but I can wait
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09-24-14, 09:37 AM
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Re: Indo. Blue Tongue Skink
Mine used to burrow and stay buried for days on end. Sometimes he would even stay under for a week to 10 days.
If they have come down that far in price maybe I'll get another one. I spent three times that and he was wild caught but it was a good number of years back.
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09-24-14, 02:47 PM
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Re: Indo. Blue Tongue Skink
Still hasn't surfaced today. Bummeeerrrrrr.
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