#bluetonguelizard — Public Fediverse posts
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The long saga of bureaucratic mismanagement that was the renewal of my Companion Native Animal Keeper licence has finally come to a conclusion.
13 1/2 weeks after submitting my renewal application to the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service I have now received my new licence. That means that this scaly sausage is legit again, after being held on an expired licence for the past 12 1/2 weeks through no fault of my own.
As noted up thread these types of licences used to be granted automatically within minutes, but then the NSW goverment decided that all animal licence applications needed to be reviewed, but didn't give the NPWS Wildlife Licencing Team the necessary resources to do it. The inevitable result has been months long backlogs of applications awaiting manual processing.
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One of my more successful 3D printing projects: Jerry's platforms and ramps. The scaly sausage does seem to like them.
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The lizard dug a hole, and is now resting in his hollow log.
One of the big advantages of a "bioactive" reptile enclosure like Jerry's is that it does encourage natural behaviours. Having a soil-like substrate, a layer of leaf litter, and lots of isopods running around prompts Jerry to poke and scratch around in the leaves and dirt like a wild blue tongue would. This is good enrichment for his little lizard brain.
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Resting his chin on the rock where his food bowl gets put, looking for all the world like he's thinking "Why is there no food here? This is where my food normally appears. I definitely should be getting food right now. Can't you see I'm wasting away."
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Tempting as it is to give that tail a boop/stroke I must resist, because that is the one and only way to annoy this lizard. Something touching his tail when he's inside his hollow log is the only thing that ever makes him hiss. Even getting some water on his tail while I'm watering the plants down that end of his enclosure will result in him audibly complaining.
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More often than not this is the view I get of the scaly sausage: the end of his tail sticking out of his hollow log.
He absolutely loves that log, and spends a lot of his time just hanging out in there. I was very lucky to get it. Shortly after I bought Jerry a tree surgeon ended up with some natural hollow logs from their work, and decided to offer them up for sale on a local reptile Facebook Group. A rare opportunity, with perfect timing, and it turned out that the logs were an ideal size for Jerry's enclosure.
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Jerry the blue tongue is coming up on his 5th Gotcha Day.
This has triggered the annual Ordering of the Replacement UV-B Tube, and I've ordered some of his favourite foods and a spare basking lamp while I was at it. Meanwhile I've topped up the leaf litter layer in his enclosure, but I think I need to replace at least a couple of his plants too. The ferns down the cool end aren't quite dead yet, but they are not doing well.
Jerry himself has been antisocially hiding away for most of the past week, which I think was preparation for shedding his skin. He seems to be all done with that now, but is still just lurking in his beloved hollow log today.
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The lizard is wearing his ramp as a hat this morning.
Why? I have no idea.
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I'm pretty sure that Jerry is watching the TV. He's come to the cool end of his enclosure and is just sitting there with his head raised. Intrigued by the sound and movement, I guess.
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Now that I'm back in Australia Shinkansen posting will reduce, but #LizardPosting can resume.
Nice to see Jerry again after 3 1/2 weeks. Even when he has his face in his food bowl he still manages to eye me suspiciously.
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He spotted the blueberry on top of his hollow log almost immediately, but the one on his platform is still there for now.
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It's Jerry's birthday! 5 years old today. His birthday present was 3 big blueberries. He got handed one, but had to find the other two.
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I decided to give Jerry some enrichment with the Hol-ee Roller dog toy. The smaller holes are just the right size to wedge blueberries in, making Jerry work a bit for his mid-week treat.
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The space lizard has boarded his rocket.
It's a bit short for him but if he wedges his nose into the nosecone (which is obviously where it belongs) he does still fit, just about.
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Space lizard is inside his rocket again, this time with his snout inside the "engine".
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Space lizard!
This is how I found Jerry this morning, he must have spent the night in there. Most of the time he ignores his rocket, so it was nice to see him making use of it.
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This appeared sometime during lockdown and it’s just lovely.
The #echidna is so cute, so too the #rosella… beautiful colouring. Vibrant.
#Wombat and #bluetonguelizard even get a gig too!
The peeps in this scene can be described perhaps as #gumnut characters. Not sure, but I reckon their heads resemble the fruit from a eucalypt tree.
The one in blue, riding the rosella looks like it’s having fun!
The entire face of this art piece stretches about 20 metres (65 foot) and is located in downtown #Bentleigh #melbourne #victoria
Looks terrific IRL 🙏💖
#suburbanart #streetart
#suburbs #burbs
#murals #muralart #publicart #art #bentleigh #melbourne #victoria #makesmehappy