inny does ur blue tongue %$#@* the size of dog crap n smell worse cos mine does, the snake poo doesnt smell much same with the mertens n the frogs but roadkill (bluie) well its just disgustin and he poos all ova the walls to it makes me wanna spew!!!!
is it wat im feedin her, i feed her dog food n vegies but she doesnt eat the vegies and wen i mix it with the dog food she manages to leave nearly all of the vegies behind
wat can i do? can i do sumthin bout it or do i have to put up with it or move it outside, cos it stinks up my room!!!
i clean it straight away wen she does it but it still takes a while 4 the smell to leave my room, its a heavy thick smell lol

I don;t own a blue tongue but I would change the food...

Commercial dog food (wet) isn't even that good for dogs, I notice the difference if I feed my dog the stuff... his farts clear rooms for hours! Then I feed him normal meat, bones etc, and they don't smell.

Try feeding something else for a while, and see if you notice the difference... if not.. take it to the vet or something... ?!?

k i mioght feed it same stuff as my mertens

Hey there Daniel, it'l be the dog food that the blue tongue eats that smells so bad! Instead of dog food, try some cut up meat or mince - like the fresh meat (precut) you can buy for cats and dogs, give em a pinkie every now and than as well. Cat food even smells worse!! They also love to be given cooked chicken every now and than as well - but only once a week no more often than that as its fatty. I use to only give my blue tongues dog food twice a week, fresh fruit or vegies every day, a day for cooked chicken, day for pinkies and weekends were for crickets, mealworms. variety seem to suit them well and they don't stink as much.

ok ill try that

Definately too much dog food dude! They are whiffy but, need lots of regular cleaning. You should breed woodies there great. pinkies and snails too, and the veg n fruit aswell, feed every few days, if you feed daily i find they stink more, something to do with digestion time maybe. ?

Ha! Yeah I forogt snails! I use to buy a tin of se-shelled snails from the petshop (it use to freak guess out when i asked them if they wanted some snails than i use to whip out the tin and show them!) The snails stink really bad too but the bluetongues poo wasn't too bad., I use to keep the tin in the fridge. I use to add a couple of the snails to there fruit and vege. - But I think snails are fatty too, and should be fed as a treat as well.

i havnt tried snail b4, i dont think ill feed it much dog food nymore, my feedin days r mon wed n fri and sunday 4 snake every fortnight

Hey Daniel everyone does it with bluetongues! I fed my little fellas soley on dogfood for quite a while (it's what the petshop told me to feed them). At that stage I had to keep them on newspaper as they had colds - weepy eyes and noses. So it was kinda really messy, and I just thought there has to be a better way than this! Luckily I met someone who breeds them and they were able to help me out with what to feed them. - That's what we're all here for to help each other out! After a few months of their eyes and noses clearing up, I kept them on the stuff that Inny keeps his on - golden something or rather mulch. Shortly after that I came to the realisation the 2 bluetongues were beating each other up - barely noticeable except for some flackiness I noticed. Also 1 bluetongue was smaller than the other, so I had to separate them. I kept the little one upstairs in a tank where I could more closely monitor its food intake. As I said I think a great thing about keeping reptiles is you can always keep learning! - By the way do you use calcium powder? The only reason I ask is because my 2 luetongues I sold to a guy I know, has recently told me 1 has a 'deformed leg' and I found out he hasn't been giving them any calcium or U.V. - I have to go over to his place and find out what's going on and give him some tips.

This was my big guy, unfortunately I don't have any pics of the smaller ones or tanks.

kool he looks really healthy, i do use calcium powder

from what i have been told most skinkes including bluies do not need uva/uvb

Well, thats a bit like carpet pythons Craig, always debated, but if your philosophy of keeping is to try to replicate a natural life for your reptile despite incarceration,
then surely that should include uv since they get it in the wild.
Sure they might do ok without , but maybe it means they are just more more hardy than say diamonds.
I think the same should apply to lizards aswell, why do beardys need uv but bluies not
? dont they both get sunshine in the wild? its a bit like saying my turtles dont need to have their water changed because they still live if you dont change the water in 6 months, but its not nessessarily good husbundry or healthy for the turtle.
by the same reasoning, my geckos dont get uv sessions because their nocturnaland hidethrough the day, but if i bought leaftails they would get uv aswell because they ive seen them out on trees in the day.
nobodys perfect, we learn as we go, but surely it makes sense to reason like this?
In any case i suppose it depends on a few variables like
how serious you are about keeping your animal/s healthy
how much time you have/if your prepared to give 100%

if you cant be arsed with something, ie, if you deliberately take shortcuts with a herps care because it dosent "seem" to hurt it, then you dont have either the time to keep it, or the right attitude.
that said some folk goto the other extreme aswell, who ever "polishes" their snakes?



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get him some woodies or crickets. insects are a good food sorce also snails too.. have you tried him on strawberries or cherry tomatos? they love em