Insect Direct

Yep, but theyre only worth whats someones willing to pay at the end of the day. Beardies are the only herp I havent been able to break even on. Invested way too much to begin with though. Been close but havent cracked it just yet, not sure I ever will either with the way the market is at present. But still well worth keeping, no regrets here they are fascinating. Should be able to pickup some fems for 500-1000 maybe even cheaper if your lucky, but you get what you pay for. Most of the time anyway. I sold two female bds for 1800 recently but they were smaller and bit of their tail's missing etc. So yeah $1200 it is if you want one of the best around, the offers there

i wont let mine go, i will sell her though. $1200

still looks to have a good sized tail which it will be using as food. Give it a day or 3 and then start adding some live goodies

yep beardies do best housed alone i reckon, even females can fight. But yea 2 males is definitely trouble, dont want them bang bangin each other

bummer man, im contemplating selling my female bd. but straight up I'll want top dollar to justify selling her. shes in her prime, didnt breed/lay until 3 years old (this season) and that seems to make a huge difference to clutch size. Expect 15-18 if bred at 2 years old. This girl produces around 24-28 per clutch. Just need to brumate now and then get a male over her and your in the biz. :lol:

Crickets and locusts are the best. Mealworms questionable imo. Flies to fast and have very little goodness anyway. Mealworm beetles im not sure, i imagine they could be hard to digest. All I do know is crickets and locusts are safe :lol:

True, well its probably justified in some ways. Things all seem a bit slow atm and reducing prices doesnt seem to get things moving, took me forever to sell my breeding pair. Got 1k in the end but would of liked more. $150-160 on tm for youngins (atm) I think is a steal $300 was bottom dollar but even $500 for youngins was about the norm not so long ago, price will go up again i think but maybe not.

yea theyre not cheap but well worth it :lol: lol do you put a whole egg in Phoenix? do they eat the shell? ive never tried it but saw a full egg in someones tank on tm recently and it got me thinking...

Bang bang lol. Generally he bites her neck and holds her, so she submits. He sits for a bit then wiggles tail and lifts hers, they sort of lock, then the male pretty much appears to fall asleep for a bit (upto a minute i suppose). Then he wakes up and moves on :lol: Can happen just like that, but can also seem like they just arnt compatible at times. Some i just havent been able to get to successfully mate. Could be a number of reasons but I dunno. All i do know is its not always as easy as just having a male + female = hatchlings :-?

Blue tongues are very fast when they want to be, i was lucky enough to breed some last year and the babies were so fast it blew me away. Crickets and even roaches which are probably faster in general were caught with ease and dam they grew like mad on them. Even the adults will chase down a roach when they want to, i tend to demobilise (squash head or take off legs on one side) them as its quicker for me when feeding a few reptiles and I dont want roaches running around the place. Crickets probably just as good if not better and much more user friendly. Otherwise pretty laid back slow reptiles very easy care. Beardies neat to i would probably find it hard to say which one i like more, beardies are cleaner i reckon but more demanding on the live food. But not too bad once they get over the young eat like a monster age I use artificial grass for both, blue tongues do like to dig but so do beardies, maybe not as much but even so i dont think they miss it all that much. As long as they have a hide down the cool end they seem happy as larry. Bark or sand substrates i find get dirty and need replacing to often which i dont have time for. Arti grass just take out and hose/water blast etc. Bit different if wanting to make a nice natural looking setup and keeping them more so as pets i suppose.

Mesh is not good, causes damage to there snouts. Also the grass is always greener on the other side. Stop them been able to see out and they seem to settle to what confinement they have. Not try and escape all the time. Saw a tank of snakenecks, red ears and reeves hatchlings in a pet shop recently. Utterly disapointed to see all the reeves tails gone and not just the tip Snakenecks apparently did it. I'd hazard a guess and say yes well shouldnt have all been together but lack of food is my guess. Theres always exceptions. I use to have snakenecks and reds together without a prob. But they were very well fed and in a reasonable sized pond. Still wouldnt recommend it. Get one or the other and less can go wrong.

Yeah after winter when the pond gets over 18 to 20C they can go out, will handle winter where you are. They just need to have summer to get use to the elements. Then as winter dawns they slowly wind down, once temp gets under 18C stop feeding. I think your tanks is probably more than sufficient, moving the turt around probably isnt doing much for her independence :lol: Can put her outside on really hot days but watch out for cold drafts/wind, especially at this time of year. And must have access to shade, and preferably water. Wrong time of year to be doing so really, but then again there is still a heap of heat in that sun when it shows it face. I was reflecting the sun off my whiteness today

I had forgotten about it untill I saw it hopping around the tank the other day, wasnt overly fat but wasnt skinny. I feed crickets as the staple and theyre easier to catch than flies I would assume. But even still I didnt like its chances, so fed it to a lizard :oops:

:lol:

That some one would send things like that. And for that one courier depot not to take live goods any more..thats all

bollocks

and even females can head bob, darken beard like the males

aha that would make sense.

I see when I edit a post (often :oops: ) it comes up with small message how many times ive done so....but seems to only show this in some of the forums on here? or...?

spawning comes next :lol:

frog avatars all around true hard to say but very likely they just got nibbled. I had a tadpole with one eye from a young age and not sure but im pretty sure one of its sibblings had sucked it out. Its a hard life been a frog

when you say looking odd as a tadpole..what do you mean? thinking about it, it probably is more likely that they were nibbled rather than a deformity.

Weird, they love fish and are excellent at fishing. Very fast like a snake, when they want to be. Maybe water is a bit cold or your just feeding too much prawn. I had never seen mine eat pellets until I got slack and cut back on food. Still not sure thats normal though as I didnt think they eat pellets. And that is just one of them who is a complete guts and eats almost anything i chuck at it. :lol: Actually come think of it, I did have guppies breeding in with them at one stage, to my surprise. But same thing i suspect if i stopped feeding them they would have cleaned up the fish.

impressive isnt it, they can do it to left or right :lol: Females bump i think isnt much if anything, more so created due to the lack of hemipenes. I could be wrong though, thats just an assumption.

Nice pic reptilez. Any more pics of the skink, looks of very nice colour.