cunningham skinks

[geckos_are_great]

hi guys i was just wondering if anyone actully breeds cunninghams on this site apart from thegreenies. if so can you post pictures of your set ups and cunninghams. at the moment i have 2 cunninghams and im getting another 2 this weekend. so i can hopfully breed them. also for the people that do breed them are they hard to breed???

thanks in advance for anythings you guys post.

 

[zulu]

One of the easiest skinks to keep and breed the cunninghams,my friend had a pair that we collected near bathhurst in 1970 as adults,they bred almost every year until 1990 when i took them to another licensed keepers house and he put them in his outdoor pit.They kept breeding and he had them until a few years back when he then also moved.So they are extremely long lived and hardy lizards,ive onley got the one adult here at the moment and its outside in a 6 metre enclosure,they get along alright with bluetongues and a land mullet that share the cage.

 

[geckos_are_great]

awsome. mine are housed outside in a 3meter square enclosure with blueys beardies and turtles.

 

[geckos_are_great]

pics any 1?

 

[geckos_are_great]

bump

 

[H.bitorquatus]

I have read that related Cunningham's skink's will not breed??? It was in a nature Australia mag, but I am sure that would just be with wild animals. Has anyone bred sibling skink's before?

 

[geckos_are_great]

hmm thats interesting as they live in realy large colonys in the wild i guess they would have a good gene pull.
none of mine are related so thats good i guess. is there any possable way to sex them?

 

[geckos_are_great]

bump

 

[greeny1]

lol, thanks for the special mention

 

[geckos_are_great]

lol thats ok

 

[snakeman478]

i have 5 new england cunningham siblings that i have had for 8 years. they are in an outside pit (6m round) they have bred every year since they were 2 years old. i just leave the babies in there. the colony would consist of atleast 40 to 45 animals from the massive 5 original adults to last seasons offspring. they get along famously, although sometimes a couple of new borns get eaten. its an awesome little colony and i sometimes sit there for hours just watching them.

 

[geckos_are_great]

ohh no they get eaten! sounds like aa wicked colony you have there do you have any pictures???
also is it hard to tell if there gravid?

 

[geckos_are_great]

bump it up. would love to see some pictures

 

[geckos_are_great]

bump come on just one picture and ill be happy XD

 

[geckos_are_great]

ok so now im trying to work out localitys would like to see pictures of different localitys so i can try to id different localitys when i see them. im going to be doing my reasearch project on these next term. so any pictures would be great

so far the only localitys i know are the victorian ones are kinda browny green theres the ones from the granite belt are those orange headed ones aswell as the ne england ones. but thats all i know. any corrections would be great.