![]() Signature Required UPS generally requires a signature for delivery. We verify all addresses with VISA, MasterCard, Discover and American Express. SHIPPING AND BILLING ADDRESSES: If your shipping address is different from your credit card billing address, please make sure your card issuer has listed this shipping address as an "authorized" address. Due to the nature of our products, we cannot backorder live animals. If you would prefer to be contacted if we are missing items, please let us know when placing your order in the comment field. Any missing items or substitutions will be marked on your order and your total will be adjusted accordingly. Availability In the interest of meeting your schedule, if 70% of your order is in stock, it will be shipped. Saturday delivery is an extra $26 charge. How much is Saturday delivery? Saturday delivery must be made by special request by email or phone. You will receive a confirmation email with your tracking number when your order has shipped. All LiveStock are shipped Wednesday and will be deliver Thursday Morning. Orders generally ship within 1-2 business shipping days. All livestock orders must be shipped overnight via UPS or FEDEX Priority Overnight to reduce transit time. Dry goods, Aquarium Supplies, and Reptile supplies are ship using ground service unless Specified. Live Rock and Sand are ship using 2nd day service. If other shipping method is chosen we will modify the shipping method. All livestock orders are shipped via Next Day Air. Shipping Charge will be calculated base on the actual shipping weight. These highly visible diurnal skinks are commonly observed on low vegetation and low on tree trunks, flicking their long tails.įREE SHIPPING on order over $500 on all Fish, Corals, Inverts, Package Deals, and Live Reptiles excluding Live Rock, Sand, and Natural Sea Water! If order under $500 In New Guinea the blue-tailed skink exhibits sexual dichromatism, the females are brightly marked with blue tails while male blue-tailed skinks are usually light brown with indistinct stripes and a brown tail. It is possible that the stripes are intended to direct the eye of the predator towards the bright tail, thereby deflecting an attack away from the vulnerable lizard body. The combination of electric blue tail with black body and three longitudinal yellow body stripes in a common pattern found in skinks, lacertids and other lizardsaround the world. It is thought that the bright coloring on the tail is intended to direct the predator's attention to it, instead of the vulnerable body. Females usually keep their blue tail for their whole life, though. As the juvenile males age, they lose their yellowish stripes and their back starts to become a brownish black color, and they begin to grow a reddish color underneath the neck during the mating seasons. When young they have a dark black body with bright yellow stripes leading from the back of the neck down to the meeting of the bright blue tail. When they become frightened they have the ability to pop their tail off and it will continue to wiggle and distract their predator while they run away. ![]() It is relatively small with a black body with yellow stripes going to a bright blue tail.īlue-tailed skinks are usually about 4 to 8 centimeters long. The Blue-tailed Skink (Cryptoblepharus egeriae) is a skink native to Australia's Christmas Island and is not closely related to the Plestiodon skinks of North America, whose juveniles are known for their blue tails.
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