Hi, great to have new folks joining. I am not yet sharing my home with a tortoise but I am sure that it will not be long. So until that time and after that I am enjoying all you lucky folks that do and gaining great ideas to help have my home ready when my new friend comes to stay

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Donna agranny4
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welcome to all our newest members! i'm so glad to see people joining from ALL walks of life.

michael, im fascinated by the work you do. i'm about to graduate with an environmental science degree and i'd love nothing more than to get into your line of work!

Hello,

My name is Jess. I live in Tacoma washington. I have several different turtles and tortoises. I have a red foot, a sulcata, two three toed box turtles, a musk turtle, a razor back musk, a map turtle, a red ear slider, central american wood turtle, north american wood turtle and an indian star tortoise. I have had my red foot the longest. I got him over 26 years ago.

I Love to hear about all those babies. I hope that not to long from now my Yard will be like that.

As for the 26 yr long friend, that sounds like my Db. Yel. head Amazon Parrot that we saved 25 yr ago in So. Tx. He had been robed from a nest and He is our longest time dweller. My son and his wife will inherit him and any other long living creature that might be in our home at the time we could not longer care for them. They love the animals like I do.

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Donna agranny4
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Jess welcome! Love your assortment of shelled ones! 26 yrs is something to be very proud of. Looking forward to reading future posts from you.

Welcome to the forum jess. Looking forward to future posts and lots of pics.

WOW!! I want to see pics of all your aquatic turtles and your star. do you keep them in a pond or large aquarium?

I have an indoor pond downstairs that I built that i keep the red ear and the map turtle in. It has a large land area that the box turtles and the central american wood live in. It works out really wel because the wood turtle likes to sit in the shallow pan for the waterfall and the box turtles occasionally get in the water too. I jhave plants in the land area and lots of rocks. I suspended lights from the ceiling for basking. I will have to take some photos and try to load them on here. I think it looks pretty cool. Everyone who comes over loves it. I keep the small musk turtles in a smaller aquarium by the pond. Since they are so small I wanted to be able to keep them in a different enclosure so I know they are eating properly. I have my indian star in a waterland tub downstairs as well. It makes it so easy to care for him because he loves the water and I placed the drain of the tub over a utility sink so I can drain the water daily and refill it. I will try to get some pics on here for you to see. I'm still trying to figure how the site works. I'm not real internet savy. Thanks for the welcome!

Hi, My name's Penny and I live in the UK. Today our family acquired a seven year old rescue Horsfield tortoise called Albert. He seems to be settling in well. Although I thought I'd done loads of research prior to getting him I now find I have lots of questions left to ask so I thought this would be the best forum to join