So thanks to a very lovely link lisa127 gave me (bluetoungskinks.net) I have found 4 northern BTS breeders in the US who ship! 
(sorry! kind of long, it's been awhile!) Anyway, that was happy, and so I started talking to a very nice breeder in Virginia, and we were talking about baby blue tongues and availability... and it was a little tiny bit disappointing, because she had these gorgeous caramel babies in September (which was the LAST littler of the year she was expecting!!) and they were reserved before they were born, so I was little late to the wagon
Anyway, I asked her if there would be any litters at the start of the year, BUT apparently hibernating for breeding isn't just a thing for torts, it's a ting for BTSs too! So her breeding adults will wake up in April-May, she said, and then hopefully there'll be a few littlers from August-September.
So, to sum up, no baby blue tongues in the winter.
I'm a little sad about this, because if I get a reservation now, just after the last breeding season, I could have a pre-set baby a couple weeks after he/she is born, but I'm iffy about this, because I want to see him/her and choose! What if my baby is unusually aggressive? I feel like I'm being too picky, but I also feel like if I'm going to make a reservation, and pay for a little guy who may potentially not exist, or something could happen, and the fact it's almost a ENTIRE YEAR from now!
I'm wayyy over thinking this, aren't I???
So I can do that, and make a reservation, because this is pretty much universal for all other 3 breeders I was looking at, OR I could wait and hope that after the blue tongues are born, I can hope to get a little guy (which is unlikely, because apparently almost all of her babies are reserved by the time they're born) OR I could rescue, but I'm not finding many little ones, even juveniles, and I know this sounds terrible at mean, but I'm, doing this with my own! I made that decision a wile ago, for many reasons
So, to just add onto that fact, and to make me even more disaponted, I was browsing the net, and I found this site called ReptilesDownUnder. And I mean, I found the BTS MOTHERLOAD. I mean, EVERY BTS species available, babies, adults, the whole shebang! I had already found these adorable super dark northern babies with light patterns and they were soooo cute, when I realized it was based in Australia...which has law forbidding the export of native reptile species, like blue tongues.
So yeah, disappoint.
What option would you guys go with? Am I over thinking this, and just like PICK ALREADY?
(sorry! kind of long, it's been awhile!) Anyway, that was happy, and so I started talking to a very nice breeder in Virginia, and we were talking about baby blue tongues and availability... and it was a little tiny bit disappointing, because she had these gorgeous caramel babies in September (which was the LAST littler of the year she was expecting!!) and they were reserved before they were born, so I was little late to the wagon Anyway, I asked her if there would be any litters at the start of the year, BUT apparently hibernating for breeding isn't just a thing for torts, it's a ting for BTSs too! So her breeding adults will wake up in April-May, she said, and then hopefully there'll be a few littlers from August-September.
So, to sum up, no baby blue tongues in the winter.
I'm a little sad about this, because if I get a reservation now, just after the last breeding season, I could have a pre-set baby a couple weeks after he/she is born, but I'm iffy about this, because I want to see him/her and choose! What if my baby is unusually aggressive? I feel like I'm being too picky, but I also feel like if I'm going to make a reservation, and pay for a little guy who may potentially not exist, or something could happen, and the fact it's almost a ENTIRE YEAR from now!
I'm wayyy over thinking this, aren't I???
So I can do that, and make a reservation, because this is pretty much universal for all other 3 breeders I was looking at, OR I could wait and hope that after the blue tongues are born, I can hope to get a little guy (which is unlikely, because apparently almost all of her babies are reserved by the time they're born) OR I could rescue, but I'm not finding many little ones, even juveniles, and I know this sounds terrible at mean, but I'm, doing this with my own!
I made that decision a wile ago, for many reasons So, to just add onto that fact, and to make me even more disaponted, I was browsing the net, and I found this site called ReptilesDownUnder. And I mean, I found the BTS MOTHERLOAD. I mean, EVERY BTS species available, babies, adults, the whole shebang! I had already found these adorable super dark northern babies with light patterns and they were soooo cute, when I realized it was based in Australia...which has law forbidding the export of native reptile species, like blue tongues.
So yeah, disappoint.
What option would you guys go with? Am I over thinking this, and just like PICK ALREADY?
