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[animal_crazy]

hello, i wanted to know if anyone had any good info on blue tongues, we introduced our male to our female and they excepted each other very well twice that I know of...  but know about a week later she hates him bites him and goes after me to now... she has never been like this she is in her own cage again which was where she was before and she goes right after my hands when i go to change her water and fluff up her dirt... does anyone know if this is common after breeding or what may be going on?   he's still in good moods, but her ... not so much... lol

[Keiness]

I dont know why, but I do have an idea? The males can be aggressive when breeding and will bite the female, she may not be welcoming of his advances, or she is confused to what's going on. For the record, i always introduce the male into the female territory, it will make it slightly less stressful for her if she recognizes her environment. The males wont care. Perhaps she just tired of his advances and is biting him to get him to stop, and biting you because soon as something enters the cage or goes near her she's associating it to the male's advances, and bites out of reaction. She might also be biting because she's stressed out.

[iMsP]

It's possible she's gravid, and once gravid, she might not want anything to do with him.  This is true with snakes too, as once mating has happened, you remove the male (who will keep going for it if you let them).  What Keiness mentioned about moving the male into the female enclosure, not vice versa, that's definitely true for snakes, anyway.

I'm no expert on skinks specifically, far from it, but from what you said, I take it they've mated already.  If so, I'd say she's feeling protective of something (gravid).  It's not likely that the males stick around after mating in the wild (unless their social skinks, I know at least one species that is), as the female drives him off when she no longer requires his services, heh.

[animal_crazy]

well, once i seperated them and gave her a while i have gone back in with her tonight and she came out for me with no attitude, so I am hopeing that when they did mate something happened but sense it was only about a week ago probebly wouldn't show signs already, but iMsP as you mentioned about being social skinks I have done research and some people say they can keep males and females together and some say not to so i thought for breedeing I would try it. I also read about introducing male to female or female to male so I put them in a universal cage... nutral territroy.
Here is hopeing she is gravid and yes I caught them twice in the middle of the dirty deed....lol thanks for the ideas and I think it might have been a bit about stress to she's good now and his little bite wounds are healing good too.