Other pets (pics and discussions)

[ConcinusMan]

Built the above water monitor a new cage:

7X4X4 is what it ended up being, should last me until I move houses where he will get a 12X8X6

Hey! you broke the "rules". you're supposed to show the animal in his new home. Preferably kicking back in a lounge chair with an umbrella, sipping a cold drink.

[Millinex]

Hey! you broke the "rules". you're supposed to show the animal in his new home. Preferably kicking back in a lounge chair with an umbrella, sipping a cold drink.

He's hiding too much, he's been exploring it for the last 6 hours, I already left the door unlocked once and he figured how to push it open and escape down my hallway to come see me in the living room rofl.

[drache]

we got a gift today . . .


not sure about the gender yet, but Mikhaila named the little one Ophie

[ConcinusMan]

Neeto

[guidofatherof5]

Blue Tongue Skinks are awesome.

[drache]

did you know that one can see the light shining through their head from ear to ear?


meanwhile in my uromastyx tank . . .

[guidofatherof5]

did you know that one can see the light shining through their head from ear to ear?

That's nothing. I can do that too.

[ConcinusMan]

Lots of skinks are like that. Alligator lizards too.

In one ear, and out the other, huh Steve?

[guidofatherof5]

Lots of skinks are like that. Alligator lizards too.

In one ear, and out the other, huh Steve?

I'm sorry, Richard. Were you talking to me

[drache]

Lots of skinks are like that. Alligator lizards too.

I did not know that about skinks and alligator lizards.
I love seeing stuff like that.
I'd read up on blue tongues a few years ago, and then gave up on getting one any time soon. I'd forgotten most of the specifics, but I still have the book and there's a forum with a fabulous care sheet that I joined back then, so in terms of the care, it's been just a bit of brushing up.
spending time with a lizard is always different from reading about them
in terms of general disposition, this one seems pretty true to the descriptions - pretty unflappable; burrows a lot; a bit more alert and active than I had expected; with an eating style like a trash compactor
it'll be cool to see her settle in and grow up
she'll be the hit at science events