Mel's Exotics

I’m thrilled to announce that we had another litter born here this year – Araucana and Penn would like to introduce their 8 beautiful babies to the world! You can check them out at the 2025 Araucana x Penn Babies Page, or take a look at some random photos here 🙂

Hello friends!

First off, for anyone visiting for the first time, thank you for checking out my website! It’s not fully up to date right now, and we’re hoping to revamp it soon, but I’m still glad folks are finding ME here.

That said, if you want a place to actually communicate with me (maybe to show off your expo pickups?), I wanted to share the link to my Discord channel (and everything else): https://linktr.ee/melsexotics

I hope to see some of you join the Discord, especially the lovely folks I talked to at this weekends MRBE. Which I am now home from, with all my skinks put away, and we’re all very tired but very happy. My final few Bunny Babies went to new homes, so I am officially out of skinks until my preggos start popping!

Speaking of the preggos, see my previous post for photos, and know that babies are due any day now for some of the girls. Please send baby-skink-thoughts in our direction 🙂

Finally, I wanted to introduce two new faces, my (hopeful) pair of White-Lined Geckos (AKA Skunk Geckos). I picked these beautiful CBB geckos up from Tails & Scales, and they’re already enjoying their new quarantine enclosure. While I don’t normally work with geckos, I was looking for this species for a very specific purpose: my Monkey Tail Skink tank is infested with crickets and I hope these geckos will breed an army to eat them all!

That’s all for today. I promise to post an update as soon as the pregnant girls start popping!

Many thanks,
Mel

Hey friends!

We’ve had a busy spring here at Mel’s Exotics, and we’re looking forward to an even more exciting summer!

This weekend ME will be vending at the Manitoba Reptile Breeders Expo:

If you’re in Manitoba consider stopping by to check out the expo and meet many of my skinks 🙂

Now I won’t have any fresh babies available at this expo, but we are expecting babies any day now from five of my breeder females. The following pairings are expecting:

Hey friends,

I’ve been quiet for a while, and my website has been having issues as well. Please know that I’m still alive and am working on a fresh new look for the website this year.

And of course in more exciting news, pairings have officially started for the 2025 season. So far we’ve had three very popular pairs lock up again, so here’s hoping for more amazing babies from:

• Alice & Drooly – Pale Classic Northerns
  • This pairing consistently produces big, healthy, friendly babies that have a very pale yellow colouring.
• Evita x Wasp – Dark Classic Northerns
  • My first ever breeding pair, who had their first litter in 2011, are still doing well and ready to make more of my “trademark” dark northern babies in 2025!
• Tatara x Taz – Caramel Northerns
  • My pair of caramel northerns is at it again, pairing up to hopefully produce another litter of stunning creamy, caramel-coloured babies.

And that’s just our pairings that have confirmed locks so far! We have several other pairings we’re hoping for still, and we’re all excited to see the results in 3-4 months 🙂

I haven’t done a waitlist in years, but if there’s a particular pairing you’d like a baby from, shoot me an email at contact@melsexotics.ca (for those who’ve sent emails, replying to those in next on my list today, sorry for the delay!)

To sum up, expect some website changes to happen soon-ish, pairings are ongoing, babies are expected starting in June.

Have a wonderful spring everyone!

Many thanks,
Mel

In honour of spring springing, and because my friends literally did half the work, my Available Page has once again been updated with new photos of the available babies!

To spice up this update, here’s some of the amazing tongue-shots the photographer, Phynix, managed to get during the Bunny Baby photoshoot:

Hey friends!

I’ve been quiet online, but incredibly busy in real life. Over the summer we’ve had four litters of Northern Blue Tongue Skinks born, and there’s more than 30 babies now ready for their new homes!

Head over to the Available Page and check them out!

Or scroll through them at random here (better photos and a video will be coming soon):

Hello friends! I’m back home in Winnipeg now, and wow do I have so much I want to share with you. The CRBE trip was exhausting, exciting, huge, enlightening, inspiring, and so so many more adjectives. I met some of the kindest people and got to see a few friends who I’ve only ever known online. I met a few of my favourite community voices and got to be part of what I hope is a step to bringing the animal-loving community together.

While I wasn’t able to bring any animals to sell, I’ve now received offers on my monkey tails, pink tongues, and most of my blue tongues. That leaves my Peters Banded Skinks, which I suppose will remain here and I will try to upgrade their enclosure again to promote a better breeding result.

Honestly, my biggest regret was that I couldn’t do more. I would have preferred to not have a table myself and instead help at my friends table and have more freedom to wander and do interviews with all the amazing booths that were there. I’m hoping some other YouTubers have better video. If you haven’t already seen the videos I did manage to do, please check out my YouTube!

If YouTube isn’t your thing, I’ll try to post a more complete written account of the event soon, at least regarding what all happened for me and my friends there. It was an adventure for sure.

In regards to sales, I still don’t have a proper platform to post animal sales or merchandise sales. I have some photos of some available skinks to post, probably on my Available page, so check there shortly. Sales still need to go through contact@melsexotics.ca (I’m so sorry this has backed up so badly, I’m swear I’m trying my best, it’s just a struggle atm).

I’m going to try to post my merchandise items on my Buy Me A Coffee! There isn’t really a good “shop” feature there yet, but it does let me give discounts to my BMAC members, so I’m giving it a try. Check under the Extras section, to be updated ASAP.

Umm, what else. I’m going out to the Narcisse Snake Dens tomorrow. If you want to join me on that mini-adventure message me on Discord or Facebook.

Some pics for fun!

Pink Tongue Skinks:

Blue Tongue Skinks:

Keychains:

Stickers:

Hey friends,

Tomorrow morning my friends from Fire and Ice Designs and I leave for the Canadian Pet Expo! I can’t update my website while I’m traveling, but I will be posting livestreams to YouTube, and trying to update my social media pages when I can.

I am not taking any live animals to the show, though I am travelling with Gabe, a wonderful poodle. I really, really wish I could have brought some of my skinks, but it just wasn’t feasible this time. I will have some merchandise items at my table, and a quest card that leads to Fire & Ice’s booth with a discount voucher. So please stop by and say hi if you’re at the show!

In regards to sales I know I haven’t been able to get back to emails – I’ve had to pause sales until after the expo, there just wasn’t enough time to respond to everyone; I’m sorry to anyone who’s been waiting for a response from me, I promise I will try to catch up with everyone after the expo.

If you’ll be at the show and are up for helping at a vendor table, please let me know. Ideally each vendor has 2 people at all times for a show like this, with extra team members to trade off for breaks. I have had some friends offer to help me take breaks, but ideally a few folks who could help my friends too can volunteer. In exchange we can offer a day pass (and some food/merch if you’re doing a full day).

The best place to get in touch with me directly right now is through Discord or Facebook. However all sales will have to go through contact@melsexotics.ca, just so I can try to organize it.

If you can’t attend the expo but want some merch I promise I’m working on setting up a better online sales platform. There’s so many really cool things coming because I’m getting the chance to work with some amazing people. I really want to tell you all about it, and I will, but right now I need to go sleep. Goodnight my friends, be well!

Many thanks,
Mel