Can blue tongue skinks eat banana?
Bluetongues are omnivores and should be offered a variety of foods such as insects e.g. crickets, worms, snails and slugs. They will eat a range of chopped fruits and vegetables including dandelion, milk thistle, watercress, banana, apple, pawpaw, pear, green beans, carrots, alfafa sprouts, parsley and tomato.
What should I do if my blue tongue skink is not eating?
If your baby blue tongue skink is not eating, then you should entice it to eat. Babies can sometimes be fussy about food. What often helps is offering higher protein food, such as cooked mince meat or premium dog food. Sometimes you will also need to push the bowl with food to your blue tongue skink’s nose for it to start eating.
Is there a difference between male and female blue tongue skink?
This is especially true when blue tongue skinks are still young – less than 12 months old. There is almost no difference between female and male blue tongue skink characters and temperaments (apart from breeding behaviors).
Can a blue tongue skink eat a grasshopper?
Yes, your blue tongue skink can eat grasshoppers. But make sure they are sold for reptile consumption, and don’t collect any from outside. Lubber grasshoppers are toxic.
Can a blue tongue skink eat raw celery?
Yes, blue tongue skinks can eat raw celery stalks, but only occasionally. This is because celery is high in oxalates. Can blue tongue skinks eat cherries? Yes, blue tongue skinks can eat cherries, but only occasionally. This is because cherries are goitrogenic (bind iodine). Cherries should be included in a 5% fruit allowance.
How can you tell the gender of a blue tongue skink?
Blue tongue skinks store fat in their tails. Reproductive organs – can be seen through ‘popping’. Breeding behaviors – surefire way to determine the gender. Everting hemipenes when pooping – a male can evert its hemipenes when its pooping. Semen and seminal plugs in the excrement – surefire way to tell your skink is a male. See picture below.
How often do blue tongue skinks need to eat?
How often do blue tongue skinks need to eat? Baby blue tongue skinks of under 5 months old will need to eat every day with one day a week fasting (6 days a week), 5-10 month olds – feed 2-3 times a week. Adult blue tongue skink of over 10-12 months old will need to eat only 1-2 times a week. How much do blue tongue lizards eat?
What’s the difference between a male and female blue tongue lizard?
It has been generally observed that male blue tongue lizards have more defined and fine patterns on their body that are easily visible to the on lookers while the female skink has combination of dull brown on its body that cannot be distinguished in to clear patterns.
What kind of diet does a skink lizard need?
To maintain optimal levels of calcium in your skink lizard’s body, you should make sure that it doesn’t eat foods with high phosphorus levels. Ideal Ca:P ratio in the diet is 2:1. This is because too much phosphorus will bind calcium and remove it from the body. Over time, this will lead to deficiencies.
