We will be needing trusted posters who can serve as moderators and be eager and willing to share their tortoise expertise with others. Nominate folks you think are up to the task, ultimately I'll use this thread to start appointing people as we need them.

Hello Everyone!

My name is Cory, and I am a lifetime turtle and tortoise lover! I have the real life experience of over 18 years taking care of turtles and tortoises. And I have the education to back it up! I have finished my Bachelor's Degree in Biology and I am working on my Master's in Biology.

I am also doing genetic research on the Western Pond Turtle. This turtle is very threatened in the western states. I hope to bring them off the threatened list.

I have over 30 turtles (aquatic and terrestrial) and tortoises. I am very knowledgeable about housing, feeding, breeding, hibernation, and caring for sick ones.

Please nominate me to be a moderator for this wonderful site!

Thank you for your time,
Cory

I will nominate you when I can see more of your posts to see if you'd be a great moderator for this site.I have a question why do you want to be a mod?

This post was last modified: 08-24-2007 05:56 PM by Rees2.

Hey Rees2,

I want to be a mod because I want to be able to help people learn more about these incredible creatures. I have devoted most of my life studying and caring for turtles.

I recently rescued a soft shelled turtle from being someone's dinner! A family was going to eat it, but once I found that out, I immediately got it, and put it in a pool i bought off of craigslist.

This past summer I spent a month in Mexico, in the small town of Colola, and there I was helping the jump start effort of the locals to help increase the sea turtle population. The sea turtles that I helped were the Black Sea Turtle and the Olive Ridley Sea Turtle.

I documented my entire journey and created a 20 minute long DVD. Once I figure out how to post it online, I will do so. I presented that DVD as well as 100s of pictures at my local CTTC chapter (Valley) at the last meeting.

I would love to answer any and all questions anyone has about my adventures.

-Cory

oooo, that video (and the photos) sound awesome! if the video file isnt too big you can use a site like http://www.sendspace.com to upload it

That sounds so cool, I would love to go see and assist with a turtle or tortoise project. I have considered multiple times changing my major so that I am working with reptiles all day for my employment.

thanks for the link josh. ill definitely look into that. if it is to big, ill break it up into different parts. i think that would make it easier to download as well.

well my major is biology, but i work for a company that does research on diabetes. so my only turtle/tortoise work is in my lab at school. but i hope to eventually get my PHD doing tortoise research at either Iowa State or UC Davis. that is where a lot of tortoise genetics research is going on.

All nominate Spikethebest.I looked through most of his post and he seems like a trusted poster.

thank you very much. please check out the pictures i recently posted of my backyard.

I can be a mod