eulamprus quoyii

Here are photos of various plants and animals from the Wollongong region. These photos were mostly taken from late summer to autumn. I have not been out all that much recently due to work commitments. A shot of typical habitat near Wollongong. The coastal forest is damp with eucalyptus...

Wanted - Southern Water Skink Sphenomorphus heatwolei, or Mountain Water Skink Sphenomorphus tympanum. Will pay and organise freight if needed, cannot have Eastern Water Skink as I cannot licence them yet. Thanks in andvance

Found these skinks near Orange NSW any idea what sort they are?

Eulamprus quoyii Eastern Water Skinks 2 months unknown Small 15 Bred By Me Active, easy to care for skink. Great for keepers getting into skinks. CAMDEN, NSW NOT WILLING TO FREIGHT, PICKUP FROM CAMDEN, NSW ONLY 0415956783, or PM...

Hey all, looking at getting an eastern water skink and as I already have a good sized four foot fish tank, I was thinking of tweaking it into an EWS habitat. My ide3a is thus: As the tank is already set up with fish, I was going to drop the water level by around 1/4 and build turtle dock style...

Scientific Name Eulamprus quoyii Common Name Eastern water skink Age 15th jan and 24th jan *** Unknown Length small Quantity Available 8 General Description I have 8 young water skinks available 3 born on the 15th jan and 5 born on the 24th jan from two...

Just another of my recent herp threads, put them up else where and decided to put them up here just for anyone who missed out or doesn't use other forums. enjoy Have been lucky enough to have spent the last 3 nights in the south east brigalow belt of queensland, found about 30 species, went to...

Just thought I would post a few herping pics, don't want to leave anyone out that doesn't use the other forums. you now know who I am if you already didn't, enjoy. these are the species I have managed to photograph. Agamidae Amphibolurus muricatus Jacky Lizard These lizards are very...

Went into the reptile room today to find a thin female Eastern water skink and these guys running around not too bad for her first litter 5 little ones all up.....

Hey all, Ive been seeing so many threads out there showing off snakes and other reptiles and i cant seem to find one showing off skinks, I just love my little Sand Swimmer and would love to see everyone elses Sand Swimmers or skinks that they have !

Hey guys. I went out to the Royal National Park today and snapped this little guy. I'm not very good with skinks but I was tossing up between either Ctenotus robustus (Eastern Striped Skink) or Eulamprus quoyii (Eastern Water Skink). Considering the habitat he was found in (rocky outcrops and...

id love to see mainly pyhons of all sorts, i have seen plenty of diamond and coastal pics, but what about the rest. maybe a wild bredli or jungle. all feel free to post herp pics in there natural habbitat.

My wife and I have just returned from a week long trip to Lord Howe Island. Wow, what a place! It is a superb site for those who enjoy cycling, hiking, snorkelling, birding or just want to be awed by natural beauty. Lord Howe is situated about 700 km northeast of Sydney. It is located...

Well here are some pics of some herps i have found lately. I saw a single Black Rock Skink (Egernia saxatilis) which ran away before i could get pic's, 3 Cunningham Skinks (Egernia cunninghami) i got pic's of one the other 2 were very skittish, also about 20 Broad Tailed Geckos (Phyllurus...

Never seen these guys around my house before... what kind of skink is he?

as the heading says there stupid as. we have them all around our house and there not even scared of people they will let you pat them and everything.we have this large female on our veranda in summer and she can be hand fed.great little critters. so does anyone else have any reptiles around...

Here are a few photos of the herps and flowers from this past week. Broad-tailed Gecko (Phyllurus platurus) -- I made a trip up to see “my” leaf-tails that live in a rocky area near Wollongong. The night was mild and I found a number of these geckos. The gecko in the following photo...

With all this early warm weather thought i'd go for another quick bush walk. Same spot as last time and once again.....same 2 reptiles are last time, haha, Red Belly and Eastern Water Skink. Thankfully i got a better pic of the RBB this time AND he was buried in thick bush compared to the one in...

hey, do any herpers have a list of what they have seen in lane cove national park at day and night while herping etc. thanks.

Lets see some Egernia sp people,I'm hooked on these atm and can't see enough pics. I am looking at buying a few different sp this season so just want to see variety and whats around,thanks

Thought i'd post this thread because most of my lizards are skinks & I'd really like to see some of the differant species some people have. 1: My Pink Tongue Skink, 2: My pair of Cunninghams, 3: My Black Rock Skinks 4: My Bluey enjoying himself in his waterbowl.

Hi, As you's know i love herping and try to go every Sunday in many of my favourite herping spots, well today my family and i was having a day out and on the way home we where going past one of my spots so i asked if i could go for a look but i only had 30minutes there since my Mum was felling...

August is the final month of winter in Wollongong and it has begun to warm. The weather this weekend was beautiful so I went out for awhile on each day. A few reptiles were out and also enjoying the sunny conditions. I decided to produce a short post of what I photographed as well as include...

Hi all, got 3 questions, 1) are there any geckos found in goulburn 2)Whay specie of frogs are found in goulburn 3)do frogs and geckos hybernate cheers.

Hello, My Name is Felix. Im a semi-experienced aquarist wanting to look into herptology:D I'm intent on Hypsilurus spinipes as a first lizard, but first would like to observe them in wild. Going to lamington national park this weekend, any spotting tips? Thanks!

These you don't need a licence for: Reptiles (Exempt) Species Code Common Name Scientific Name S02525 Adelaide Snake-eye Skink Morethia adelaidensis U02138 Barking Gecko Nephrurus milii G02475 Bougainville’s Skink Lerista Bougainvilli C02105 Bynoe’s Gecko Heteronotia binoei...

Mum wants to convert one of my old broken 6ft fishtanks into a planted feature and could like some kind of lizard to live in there. It would need to to be hardy and able to live outside in NSW (no heating). My thought was eastern water skink, but are there any other options I should be...

Out of curiosity, i have heard alot that putting snakes in grass will make them poo. So i was wondering if anyone new why they do this? And also if snakes that do get put in the grass, is their is much of a risk of them getting parasites or infection? thanks.

what reptiles do u have???

Well I just received a tag from my Tanami... Nothing unusual there except where he got me :lol: So after being tagged on my ****! :shock: It's compelled me to ask... Where's the weirdest place that you have been tagged?

My Friend called me up a week ago, and he said he had a few lizards running around in his yards, so i whent to have a look and found 2 Jacky Dragons (Amphibolurus muricatus) and a Couple of Eastern Water Skinks (Eulamprus quoyii), and this Bat that i found a long Time ago, if somebody could tell...

Ok the other day i photographed a rather large skink.As far as i can work out it is a Ctenotus arcanus. But not completely sure.

I visited Royal National Park about a month ago and then returned again today with my younger daughter, Alexia. Both visits were along the Great Coast Walk from Garie Beach to Wattamolla. I decided to combine photos of these two trips into a single post. The rugged coastal cliffs, strange...

Did some herping at Somersby Falls (Brisbane Water National Park) today. Saw a couple of things not as many as all the other times ive been there, but still good. Ill put some more up after these 5. 1) Blue-tongue lizard (Tiliqua scincoides) 2) Blue-tongue lizard (Tiliqua scincoides) 3) Common...

Just thought i would post some pic's of reptiles that live around my area. Some of the herps live in my backyard and some live in the bush around here. I will put some more shoot's after these. 1) Broad-Tailed Gecko (Phyllurus platurus) 2) Jacky Dragon (Amphibolurus muricatus) 3) Eastern Water...

My garden is coming together nicely. I have an old bathtub in my yard that has been full of dirty water and rubbish for yonks. Well thats what I thought. Couple nights ago decided to wander out to see some nightlife of my yard, looking for the croaking frogs and found them absolutely thriving...

hi, did a few daze camping over the weekend. got a few shots of some local herps when i wasnt woking hard at emptying the grog esky:lol: first 2 shots are an eastern water skink (Eulamprus quoyii), she was missing some of her tail and looked gravid 3rd a healthy specimine of the same variety...

After Tully, we headed to the Atherton Tablelands. We spend three nights there, during which time we saw a ton of stuff. We went to: Millaa Millaa Falls, Malanda Falls, the Curtain Fig, Lake Barrine, Wooranooran National Park, Mobo Creek Crater, Chambers Eco-Lodge, Yungaburra. Here are...

We left Charters Towers and headed back to the coast and up to Tully. We arrive mid-afternoon, and went for a short walk to see what we could see. Down by the river I saw a little head peeking out of a hole in a tree stump. I waited patiently for the body to emerge. Saproscincus sp...

Copied directly from my blog. --- Note: if you've seen the 2009 ReptilesDownUnder.com calendar, you might recognise some pictures here. We left The Warrumbungles in the morning and drove up to Girraween National Park, just across the border in Queensland. Despite it being quite close to...

I think it's a Cunningham's Skink but it should be called a Lucky skink from the look of it. Seemed happy enough when I put it down again Ted

Recent and rambunctious reptile resolutions Here are some random pics of reptiles from mountains in south-east Queensland. No narrative, just pics. Lamington Plateau: Coastal carpet python (Morelia spilota mcdowelli) hiding under a rock. Eastern water skink (Eulamprus quoyii)...

i live in victoria and i went to this place called mount donna buang, its 2 hours east from melbourne, it is in the middle of the yarra ranges national park and on the summit there were heaps of these skinks, this area was like forest and humid but also rained alot and occasionally snowed. these...

This has been a good year so far for finding reptiles in Wollongong. Overall, the weather has been cool and fairly wet, but there have been enough warm days mixed in to bring out the snakes and lizards. Here are a few shots of Wollongong and the surrounding areas where I search. Wollongong...

Just letting everyone know that the annual Inter-Club Herp Xmas BBQ is on Sunday the 7th Dec at the Australian Reptile Park.. always a big day, a chance to catch up with other herpers, get to have a look a the back rooms at the ARP, check out whats new ect ect....not to be missed! Hope to see...

These are my first reptile babies :D ( since I bought the parents as babies ) Golden / Eastern Water Skink - Eulamprus quoyii 66 days from mating which was sooner than I expected. They are live bearers so the first you know of the birth is a bunch of new lizards running around with the adults...

Here are a few pics from areas near Wollongong. I visited the hills above Wollongong, Carrington Falls and Dharawal in the last couple of weeks. The weather has been pretty good with mostly warm days and a little rain. The hills above Wollongong are covered with wet eucalyptus woodland...

Took some pics of a skink which lives on the banks of the Angus River in Strathalbyn. Can anyone identify him? He is about 20-25cm long & wasn't at all bothered by me. I could have almost touched him, he was that close to where I was sitting! Last pic is of the area where he lives.

This post includes photos from a couple of sites that I visited this weekend near Wollongong. Yesterday, I spent the morning at Carrington Falls (40 minute drive) and today, I spent a couple of hours at Dharawal (20 minute drive). Also included are a few shots from last weekend in the hills...

In this post, I will include photos from the coastal areas of Mission Beach along with photos from a short day trip inland to Murray Falls State Park. Mission Beach is a beautiful place with Dunk and the Family Islands a few km offshore. Although there is a great deal of development...