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I just aquired 4 of these little guys I belive to have 1.3 . And in all the info i could find and every thing they say that they come from the solomon island mainly Bougainville and Buka And I was wondering if any one else knows what other islands they might come from and if anyone knows of breeders or just websites that sell them and is there any color morphs or color patterns I also just aquired a indonisan giant gold skink[I belive egernia frerei ] If any info is knows about them info would be a great help thanks justin

Egernia frerei skinks are commonly known as major skinks and they are not native to Indonesia. They come from Australia.
Here is a picture for you to compare with yours.

http://www.anhs.com.au/major_skinks.htm
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Edward
Carpe diem

the body shape is the same but the color is yellow and gold all over theres one at the store i work at and it is also called indo gold giant skink?????????

Congratulations on your new aquisitions!

PTS are found on Bougainville and Buka, as you mentioned and have also been found on the islands of San Cristobal, Makira, the Shortlands, Choisel, Vella Lavella, New Georgia, Isabel, Guadalcanal, Ngela, Malaita, Ugi, and Santa Ana. All of these islands are part of the Solomons Island archipelago. The first are part of the country of Papua New Guinea, the rest make up the bulk of the country of The Solomon Islands.

Skinks have been found on all of the islands listed above, but many of those records are old (30s, 40s and 50s) and a lot of logging, mining and other development has taken place in recent years, so they may not still occur on all of those islands. They may also occur on other islands that haven't been reported.

I too have been looking around to see who's breeding PTS currently. Rico and Darlene Walder of Signal Herps, who post here occasionally, breed them and according to his website, Raymond Goushaw of Herp Breeding Research. Those are the only commercial breeders I've found on the web. I know there are plenty of private individuals out there breeding though. There are also a few places like Walkabout Farms and the Tewksbury Institute of Herpetology that have breeding/research programs ongoing for PTS.

Who did you get your 4 from, if you don't mind me asking?

I got my 4 from a guy here in vegas. He had a total of 7 I got 4 a friend got 2 and he wonted to keep one I have a male and a female that have had 5 babys all together And i have one of there daugthers and a unrelated female the unrelated female has blue spots all over her but I wont to get more but I wont to get color morphs there is tis guy that has some red heads, and almost black ones, and he has one white one almost luesistic with black eyes but he will not sell any the greatest part of this is i only paid 400 for all 4 of them

Holy crap! You got quite a deal.

However, I'm disappointed to hear that someone is breeding color morphs.

I aquired a sexual pair of Corucia zebrata, mite phase and have found a bit of resources as follows: http://www.unc.edu/~dtkirkpa/stuff/corucia.html,
www.reptielen.net> email: rosita.heijens@pandora.be,
www.mcarthur.cc/skink.htm,
http://www.unc.edu/~dtkirkpa/stuff/corucia.html (lists books and articles not usually found),
www.honoluluzoo.org/Solomon_islands_tree_skink.htm,
Signal Herpetoculture has Husbandry and breeding down, and the new English version of Corucia zebrata due soon. Paperback 1999, 80 sides, written by Andree striking sign, Paul Gassner; available at Amazon de (like German Amazon.com)for 19,80 Euro I believe but don't quote me. I will find out when English version is due in US. http://www.ms-verlag.de/english.html is the translated page of Natur und Tier Veriag (Mathias Schmidt Publications) which sells the original German and English translated book "Blue tongue skink" byandree striking sign, Klaus Henle, and Robert Hitz. Books run US Dollars $26 to $150. Email: info@ms-verlag.de, International call: 49/251/13339-0, International Fax: 49/251/13339-33. This is the best I can help you for now.

I have one adult female who is VERY light colored, almost no green, all yellow and blues. With any luck she will produce for me this year.

Devon

My male is army green with dark spots all over and some blue striping My biggest female is almost yellowish green but more yellows with almost no spots banding any thing almost pattrenless Female 2 sibling to male and female above is dark green with lots of dark spotting and a couple of blue stripings female 3 unrelated to all very light coloring with spoting but there is large blue spoting all over about dime to nickel size blothing very clean in side of the blue no green or any dark spoting they are all housed in a 7 foot tale 4 foot wide 2 foot deep cage

YES I DO BUT CAN NOT POST THM THERE TO BIG I GUESS ??????????? IF YOU KNOW A WAY PLEASE LET ME KNOW ???? THANKS