Singlebacks Outside

[NoOne]

I strongly doubt that you could successfully keep shingles outdoors in brissy, i've kept shingles for many years and while i live in their natural range extended periods of high(ish) humidity has brought down older lizards with respitory problems.
It's not worth the risk problems can occur very quickly, any long time shingleback keeper will tell you the same thing.
I know people on the coast who had problems keeping them indoors.

Any reptile has to thermoregulate their body temp, they are cold blooded.
As for wild shingles in Brissy i would say someone is pullin your leg, not gonna happen.

[inkydink]

NoOne you and your friends obviously haven't kept them for long enough or appropriately if thats the case...........i tell no lies!

[NoOne]

LOL obviously.
Na only been keeping and breeding them for 12yrs, as well as maping color variations in my area.

I'd have to see it to belive it, how long have you been keeping them outdoors in Brissy?

[obee]

Hi Dicco,I've kept an elderly pair of shinglebacks in our zoo for 5 years now in Kuranda.I was told it couldn't be done.Kuranda gets 2 metres of rainfall a year and average days of 75% humidity all year except winter.
These animals came from Currumbin Sanctuary,SO KEEPING THEM IN BRISSY IS POSSIBLE.Try and source them from somewhere similar to you.Don't let them get to wet for to long and bring them inside during long extended periods of rain.To deal with humidity inside you can purchase a small humidfier or there are products at your supermarket that reduce humidity in an enclosure,just keep this stuff out of reach to the animal.
If they can be kept in a pitt in the middle of kuranda on the coast in nth qld Brisbane would be paradise to them.

OBEE

[Dicco]

Thanks for the great info Obee!

[inkydink]

Need i say anymore!

[NoOne]

Well i'll stand corrected if thats ture Obee, i have heard of it happening but those reports have been dodgy at best, every other attempt i've seen has ended in faliure.
Have you noticed any other problems, are the able to behave normally? Humidity seems to make them slugish around here even the wild ones.

Though i might add that it does seem like alot of hassle and worry when you could keep them inside, but why not i guess.

[obee]

NoOne I agree with you on a lot of what you are saying,but I do know of 2 situations where they were bred in cairns. I didn't want them but the owner got them anyway despite my reluctance.It was a challenge but I slowly introduced them to a pitt situation.I have had one slight respiratory problem with one ,promptly treated with heat and antibiotics he was back to normal.The biggest problem up here is scale rot and retained shed around the toes[this is seasonal though].But all these problems have been slight and treatable.Ultimately this is not the ideal up here but is possible and a real test of husbandry skills.

OBEE

[stockeh]

you could hook a fan to a water sensing switch, when it gets wet from the rain it will turn the fan on .... you can set the duration to whatever you like, if you increase air movement then you will decrease humidity.

[Already_Gone]

The ones that I saw were kept on red desert dirt/sand...

[sarahbell]

they had them in a pit at the wildlife park at hervey bay