Northern Blue-tongue lizard Care Guide Video: Enclosure setup, heating, lighting, diet & much more!
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- Опубликовано: 24 янв 2022
- Are you a first time Northern Blue-tongue lizard owner? Or do you already have one and are trying to improve your enclosure setup?
This video is perfect for you! Join Shannon Jones and Bangers the Blue-tongue lizard from Reptile Way, on this informative video that provides you with a broad overview of how to best care for a Northern Blue-tongue lizard!
The topics they will cover are:
Natural habitat, scientific research, enclosure setup, heating & lighting, humidity, diet, Substrate, outdoor bioactive enclosure setups.
This video has been made from an Australian perspective. Therefore, within it, there will be products you can easily purchase within Australia to setup your enclosure, as well as other items for overall care of your blue-tongue lizard.We hope you enjoy the video! If you do, please give us a thumbs up, subscribe and hit the bell button for notifications of future videos.
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Thank goodness! Finally a decent sorce of info for Aussie reptile owners! Please keep it up!!! These are so helpful
Thanks soo much for the positive feedback!
There will be plenty more videos to come! 🦎
Very informative. I’ve owned my girl for 8 months now and I’m always trying to find new info. Great job 👍🏼
Thanks soo much for the feedback, it's greatly appreciated 😊
Fantastic video, good information! 🙂
Thanks! Glad you liked it! There will be more videos to come!
Great video thanks! We are located in NSW and trying to create a lizard friendly environment as there's an eastern bluey that lives in our yard. What kind of mulch (for outdoor) would you recommend?
I live in Darwin too and thinking about getting a northern blue tongue, when the dry season hits and the humidity gets lower would it be fine with the humidity difference?
Hi there, new owner of a 6 month old northern BTS. I was about to purchase some of the Ziwi and K9/Feline natural cans but noticed they both contain fish and mussels and other more natural brands often contain potato starch. So, my question is, how safe are these controversial ingredients and should I avoid dog/cat foods with seafood and/or starches or is it truly ok to feed these to blue tongued lizards/skinks?
@pirad1922 Thanks for the comment. With Ziwi peak (and a vast amount of other natural dog and cat food brands), yes it does contain some fish, but proportional to the contents of the can and amount of fish that you would be feeding your Blue-tongue lizard in one-serving size (with the additional ingredients you can mix into it, vegetables, different cuts of meat, organs etc) is quite minute.
It can be alarming when you google 'can I feed my Blue-tongue lizard fish'. The answers you will get are:
- Absolutely not
- risk of mercury poisoning (Tuna especially)
- risk of parasites and toxins
- high salt
- high fat content
(Keeping in mind these are all risks for humans, yet people still eat fish)
I can say I have had no Blue-tongue lizards die when brought up on the diet I have shared. I have fed adults, babies and everything in between and they thrive.
I would recommend do not feed them a bowl full of fish. However, with the amount that is in these cans, and also mixed with fresh ingredients (vegetables, cuts of meat and organs, fruit) it is totally safe for your Blue-tongue lizard.
However, if you are worried, you can make up food entirely from fresh ingredients. It just takes a bit more time and effort. But essentially creating a base mixture of safe vegetables, different cuts of meat, organs, fruit (small amount as it is a treat) and then add Calcium, vitamin D3 powder (can also add a superfood supplement powder) you will have the ultimate Blue-tongue lizard food mix.
The following video goes more in depth into their diet:
ruclips.net/video/NkgsBdSL4iY/видео.htmlsi=Jw82-j0TsHJJR4CH
Hello! I don't know if I'll get an answer but is it possible to keep two blue tongues together in the same enclosure if they are the opposite sex?
This topic is very highly debated. It is generally not recommended as it can go wrong as it can cause the lizards to be stressed and could potentially injure or cause serious harm to one another.
However, I managed to successfully house a breeding bair of Northern Blue-tongue lizards for a couple years with no incident. This was due to a good pairing as well as them being in a very large breeding enclosures whereby the could easily escape one another. You have to offer multiple basking spots and digging hiding spots for this to have any chance of success. If the stop eating, and are showing signs of stress and/or injured separate immediately.
But again unless you are planning on breeding, and observing them closely, I would probably advise against it.
Hope this helps 🙏
@@ReptileWay Thanks for replying! I wanted to know because I've heard that these guys are solitary animals, but have seen a few people be able to house some together. Very interesting stuff!
You keep you BYS's together, I thought this was a no no?
It's not something I recommend to people if they haven't had experience keeping Blue-tongue lizards and breeding them.
Firstly, this won't necessarily work for all Northern Blue-tongue lizard's. I only have one pair that are in the same enclosure, Hannibal and Lizzy. When Hannibal and Lizzy were paired, there was alot of monitoring that took place.
They are also in a very large outdoor enclosure with multiple hiding and basking spots etc. This ensures they can get away from one another.
They have been together for years with no incidents.
All in all it, comes down to correct pairing and temperament of lizards and having large enough enclosures to do this. It's quite a common practice with quite a few breeders in Australia.
Again it is a hot topic of debate, I know not everyone agrees and that's ok 😊👍
@Reptile Way oh I hear ya, I have BP that I cohabitation with no issues.