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26-Apr-08, 09:36 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-05 Location: Brisbane Gender:  | | | Updated Albino Blue Tongue pickies
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26-Apr-08, 09:44 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-07 Location: Gippsland Gender:  | | | | beautifull lizzard you have there, How much do the albinos range from in price $.
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26-Apr-08, 09:49 AM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-05 Location: Brisbane Gender: | | | | They are lovely animals. I love their pattern and colouration. I don't remember how much exactly they were (I think my brain has blocked out the memory of handing the cash over) but I had to save for a looooong time!!
Didn't realise how worth it they were until I saw them in the flesh though, photos don't do them justice. I saw some albino darwins recently in the flesh for the first time and was also amazed at how much more stunning they were than in photos. Quite strange. |
26-Apr-08, 10:43 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-07 Location: SouthAustralia Gender: | | | | I'll agree with that Saz....pics dont do justice to whites ...albino or not
i think it may be the colour of the background...affects the colour of the animal
reptiles appear shiny in pics....
when you take a pic of a whit e horse,dog etc...it doesnt matter...they have depth because of their coat!..no gloss!
Ok...what are there names....gather they are a pair?
what about Candy & Stripes?
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26-Apr-08, 10:46 AM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-05 Location: Brisbane Gender: | | | | The smaller one is Rhubard and the larger one is Custard!
No idea what gender they are at this stage. Hoping for a pair of course! |
26-Apr-08, 10:57 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-07 Location: SouthAustralia Gender: | | | | beautiful names....!...pm'd you
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26-Apr-08, 11:01 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-08 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | | Very nice looking. |
26-Apr-08, 11:03 AM
|  | Seller | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: South Australia Gender: | | | | They look stunning Saz. Can you please tell us how much they were.... each?
Do you have photos of the enclosure? Would you need lower wattage and less bright lights due to the obvious?
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26-Apr-08, 12:01 PM
|  | Addicted to reptiles Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-08 Location: Southern Adelaide, S.A Age/Gender: 23 | | | | Very beautiful blueys you have there. They have grown alot since you posted the last pics. Judging by the pics you have posted on here, you have an amazing collection of herps.
My fingers are crossed there a pair for your sake also. |
26-Apr-08, 12:06 PM
|  | Regular Member | | | | | There gorgous! Lucky you!
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What happens if you get scared half to death twice?????
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26-Apr-08, 12:14 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-05 Location: Brisbane Gender: | | | They were somewhere around the $1500 mark each I think give or take a few hundred. I can't remember exactly I'm afraid.
Yes, they have grown tons!! I had no idea blueys grew so fast as my others were all bought as adults.
They will not TOUCH veggies at all, have tried them with everything. They are fed on Rep-Cal beardie pellets, with cat food once weekly and of course a few tweezer fed woodies. It's funny watching them trying to catch woodies as they just grab hold of them, then they go to munch them and end up letting them go again!!
Any tips from bluey keepers out there for getting them into their veggies?
Regarding UV and heating, I have found that they are a little sensative to light. At first I had them under a heat lamp (normal 100 watt globe) but when basking they would close their eyes.
On noticing that I placed a log (one of the turtle dock logs) under the basking spot, and found that they liked to bask underneath the log rather than on top of it. I then switched to under floor heating which they seem to prefer, and use a lot.
As far as UV goes, they go outside on the weekend to soak up some rays. They are given a hide of course so they can get out of the sun if they wish to.
They tend to bask for short periods and then retreat into the shade.
They are kept in tubs with newspaper, hides and a litter tray of shredded newspaper that they bury into. Nothing much to look at but they seem to like it.   |
26-Apr-08, 12:20 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-08 Age/Gender: 12 | | | | do you watch the show "rhubarb and custard"?
if so do you like "mouse"?
I think he's weird
I only see it if I turn on the tele and it's on
don't realy care what i watch as long as it's a cartoon! |
26-Apr-08, 12:34 PM
|  | Sponsor | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane | | | Yours have certainly grown alot Saz! Looking great. 
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26-Apr-08, 12:36 PM
| | Sponsor | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane | | | | 'No name' - 2 |
26-Apr-08, 12:38 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Brisvegas | | | Hi Saz,
I kept bluey's for years in outdoor pits, and never had a problem getting them to eat fruit- honestly I never tried veggies!! Trick is they love anything sweet and mushy- bananna was a favourite as well as strawberrries, grapes, peaches, and a little bit of apple, pear and orange. Different bluey's would prefer different fruits... one of my big females would plough through the giant fruit salad pile and pick out the banana, another would do the same with cherries and another particualrly liked the grapes.
The northern bluey's (Tiliqua Scincoidies Intermedia) I have found to be far more agressive than their eastern counterparts, so even when they're not hungry, rubbing a chunk of bananna along the side of their lips would initiate an agressive CHOMP response, then seemingly pleasant surprise at the yummy morsel suddenly in it's mouth. You could try this method with yours. | | |
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