skinks

[lizardboy_ryan]

can you buy copper tailed skinks or garden skinks as pets. also how much would they cost and can you catch wild 1s

 

[Australis]

can you buy copper tailed skinks or garden skinks as pets. also how much would they cost and can you catch wild 1s

Ive seen coppertails advertised in the past, i dont recall how much they went for.

You can catch wild ones, you can even rob a bank,both possible, but illegal

 

[lizardboy_ryan]

RE: Re: skinks

lol

 

[Veredus]

RE: Re: skinks

Im interested in whether anyone sells garden skinks as well as I would like some for an ecology research project
.

 

[codeth]

RE: Re: skinks

me too, then id have a better supply of them to feed to my burtons

 

[codeth]

RE: Re: skinks

me too, then id have a better supply of them to feed to my burtons

 

[RevDaniel]

RE: Re: skinks

Careful guys it is illegal to be feeding skins to other reptiles. Best they are not talked about being used for food.

 

[codeth]

RE: Re: skinks

:twisted: they arnt its umm reserch

 

[geckodan]

RE: Re: skinks

Careful guys it is illegal to be feeding skins to other reptiles

In NSW but not here in QLD (we have 9 feeder skink species we may collect as needed)

 

[LeaBilby]

RE: Re: skinks

That is awful!! My shingles would be in uproar over that and there would be a skinky revolution!!
I have covered there ears so they don't hear you say that... :cry:

In NSW but not here in QLD (we have 9 feeder skink species we may collect as needed

 

[geckodan]

RE: Re: skinks

That is awful!!

Why????? Species that have evolved as exclusively lizard eaters (e.g Burtons Legless Lizards) have a right to eat don't they ????

 

[LeaBilby]

RE: Re: skinks

Eats a skink eat skink world I suppose. I didn't realise those legless lizards only eat other lizards.... what a strange existence, I wonder if they ever get a craving for mashed banana and avocado, with mango coulis topping?

 

[Magpie]

RE: Re: skinks

In NSW but not here in QLD (we have 9 feeder skink species we may collect as needed)

I didn't know that. What are we allowed to collect and are we allowed to keep them or just use them as a food source?

 

[Pike01]

RE: Re: skinks

I asked the same question to parks and they said "you cant keep them as pets they're only for food" so youre allowed to kill them but cant enjoy them.You could say you are breeding them as a food source.

 

[geckodan]

RE: Re: skinks

Its a shame we can't keep "breeder colonies" as it includes some really nice Carlias and Ctenotus robustus.

 

[Pike01]

RE: Re: skinks

Common sense should mean if your allowed to kill these lizards, it should be easy to get a permit to keep and breed.

 

[youcantryreachingme]

RE: Re: skinks

I'm interested in garden and other small (under 25cm) skinks also, in Sydney... It's a shame you can't even collect garden skinks. I'm new to herpetology, so I'm guessing the reason you can't collect garden skinks is because you might accidentally collect another, less common species? Or is it just easier to keep the red tape simple and say "no reptile collecting"?

Chris.

 

[geckodan]

RE: Re: skinks

Common Sense and the EPA have never been a good combination before but at least its better than Vic EPA which licence the keeping of lizard specialist species and make it illegal to feed them wild food and don't licence species suitable to breed as captive food. Now that's common sense.

 

[lizardboy_ryan]

RE: Re: skinks

wats the cheapest reptile is it a garden skink

 

[codeth]

RE: Re: skinks

cheapest aye, kingscross back alley skink :lol: