: About Me

Blue-tongued skinks are native to Australia, so when my husband wanted one, it seemed natural to name her Matilda. She's a placid, rather pleasant creature, and boy, that tongue sure is blue! These lizards like warm habitats, some room to move around (experts suggest a 40- to 55-gallon aquarium), and someplace to hide. Matilda is rather a plus-size lizard, and the standard size half-logs sold at the pet store are not enough to hide all of her, um, magnificence, so she just hides the front half. One end of her aquarium is kept warm with a heat lamp above and a heating pad below. That's her ...