Thanks! Glad you are well too. We are in this together 👍🏼 stay safe

Hi I want to buy a northern bts I live in the UK and can't really find a good breed could I get one shipped from USA to UK or would they not make the shipping x

Cheers 🍻

Thank you 🙏😊

Thanks Taevian!! You rock 👍🏼👍🏼

You are awesome! Thanks for the support :-)

Happy to hear that! :-) Thank you !

Great question. Expos are one of the least common places for BTS to be sold, at least as far as the Australian species go. Very few quality breeders vend at expos. A vast majority of sales occur online and the animals are shipped all over the US. So expos closing won't impact the Aussie BTS market much if at all. The second part of your question, is harder to gauge. The economy will recover from this, how long it will take is a deeper question I know. We do know luxury items are (mostly) the first to be cut from spending when money it tight and skinks are luxury items. However, there are many people interested in purchasing skinks as evidenced by the number of people signing up to buy a skink from my website. In the past month during this crisis the new subscribers to the email list has increased by over 100 and puts my total at over 2,000 folks. So I can't speak for the entire community but from my little corner things are increasing if anything...

ReptileMountain.TV thanks. Yes, and the other side of things is that when folks are not doing the best, little things like hobby pursuits almost seem more important. Thanks again.

I couldn't agree more for me anyway. The hobby (animals) has helped me cope with some crappy situations for certain.

Thanks. There are out takes full of squirmers. I usually go through my selection to pick one that is chill for the day. They each have good days and squirmy days. Consistency is key. And food bribes are helpful as well.

They deserve much love!

More like 20-50 bucks

I agree to some extent. Easterns from the southern locals do have negative issues with higher humidity though and damp captive environments more so than Northerns. And they do benefit from a cool down at night unlike some of the Queensland Easterns. There is still a major climate difference between Melbourne and Darwin wouldn't you agree?

@@ReptileMountainTV but for easterns found in Queensland there is not much climate difference to Darwin, easterns in far north Queensland deal with conditions just as tropical as Darwin northerns. even easterns living as far south as Melbourne live in an average humidity of 55%, which is above what most would suggest. Brisbane easterns thrive in a summer humidity range of 65-70%, way over what is recommended by most keepers and in summer and spring live with hot days and hot nights, but easterns from this area also deal with humidities of 48% in winter and average night temps of 9°C, just thought I should get this out there because easterns are very versatile, even more versatile then most people believe, but once again not too sure if locales could impact the parameters that the animal needs

Thank you so much!

Good to be here 🙂

Thats great to hear!

Humidity should be between 70-90% and the best substrate (imo) are those coconut stuff. They keep high humidity

Thanks man!

Great name!

Thanks Lance you too!

So happy to hear that

Ha! Yep they are far more common there 👍🏼

Probably not

Thanks so much!!! I got the log at Nature Box Pet Emporium in Aurora,CO

@@ReptileMountainTV Thanks. I’m about to check.

www.reptilemountain.com

Not quite yet. But by far the most overall handleable is the Eastern.

They are available for about 4-5k

No need to worry. Those were just general sizes. Some animals are outliers whereby they maybe different than the norm but still healthy and well. I have a small male Victorian Eastern who is just inside the 300g mark as well. Really the most important part is their body mass ratio. Are they a good weight for their size? If so then great. Wonderful question!

Late April - Early June

Thank you!

I know this whole virus thing is going around so I thought I would ask

I was looking through your breeders and saw that a few come from Captive Bred Excellence lines. My northern came from CBE, one of Donna's "orange crush" line. She breeds such beautiful skinks. 😍

So true. CBE are top of the line skinks. I need more from them.

I sell most everything first come first serve. I haven’t had Eastern babies yet so I will have to see how things go. Fingers crossed at least one of the female that bred has babies 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

@@ReptileMountainTV Thanks for the quick reply and best of luck with breeding! Hopefully you'll have some lil easterns running around soon 💚🦎

Mist weekly if they appear dry.

Thank you I thinking about getting a Northern BTS for my b day so I am doing a bunch of research and your channel is helping me so much keep making videos.

I recommend reaching out to the Scincidae FB group. I believe there are a few keepers there 👍🏼

@@ReptileMountainTV thank you so much!

Good question! Some animals get “neck jowl-like” thickness in the neck. Ive seen it mostly in obese Meraukes and Irian Jayas for some reason. I see a ton of skinks that people think are healthy weight but really are obese. Not saying yours is however its something to look for.

@@ReptileMountainTV no i agree while i had him on the home brew he did put on some weight, its the reason why i switched food. Could this be like loose skin similar to if a person lost weight? His body is quite slim now since changing food and schedule. But tbh i never thought he was obese just over weight thats why i didnt act sooner. Thanks for the reply!

3ft by 2ft

Go for it!

@@ReptileMountainTV sweet thx! How long should my uvb light be? I just want to make sure it's enough

Some Easterns are more shy for sure but so are some Northerns. I think it comes down to the individual really.

Email me a photo 👍🏼

Its an Aussie for sure ;-)

Min of 65F but I do 70F

ReptileMountain.TV OK, that works for me. It doesn’t get below 65 or 70 at night in my reptile room. At least in the summer. But next winter I’m going to provide some heat at night. Thank you. I don’t know how I missed that detail but I will definitely fix it.

I hope you will get some soon. Thanks for watching!

Depends on where you live

Yes

I doubt it unless its a Mercury Vapor Bulb. Check out Reptifiles.com’s care sheet or mine on my website for more info.

Thank you so much dude you probably just helped me save that blue tongue

I found the mercury bulb you were talking about I will now buy that instead thanks again dude

Thats not the ideal for uv and heat really. It wasn’t a suggestion. Check the website I suggested

I no longer ship to Canada.

Adults come available from time to time fro breeders. There’s no particular place to get one really.

Not at this time unfortunately, but I hope to in the future seasons.

ReptileMountain.TV ok. Thanks for answering my question

Yes

@@ReptileMountainTV Great! Just wanted to make sure

What did Underground suggest?

ReptileMountain.TV they said that essentially some skinks are just like that

Sadly they are correct. Time and persistence can sometimes help. Especially with food. Best of luck man.

Post a photo and ask on a FB group. Many folks there will help.

@@ReptileMountainTV okay thank you I will do that, do you have any recommendations for a good group to ask ?

Blue Tongue Skink Enthusiasts or Keepers or Hobbyists also The Complete Blue Tongue they all have folks who can ID a skink easily.

Maybe :-)

@@ReptileMountainTV

They need more than insects. But insects can be a part of their diet.

thx, allways support your channel😃😃

Lol