Recent content by aidbre94

Here’s an updated picture of my pancakes hanging out! Going to be potentially adding a fourth soon as I have the chance at diversifying their genetics!

Just thought I’d share my new trio I got last night and that I mentioned of possibly attaining before on here. The two with the unbroken line down the spine are hoped to be female through TSD & some early signs are related to each other and the smallest one with the broken line down the spine is...

Just thought I’d throw an interesting article into people’s feeds today. It looks like the last country who still legally exported Russians (said they were farm raised but pretty much admitted they were still wild caught) has now stopped the export for Russians entirely. This could mean that we...

My yearling starting to smooth out after a growth spurt. Had to take a pic during a soak!

Hey Tom, thanks for the reply. That’s kind of exactly what I’m thinking. Invest in them now when I get a chance then raise them and see what happens. I still haven’t fully decided, other than for sure 1 haha. In a perfect world 3 females would be amazing like you said. Funny enough, I spent 2...

Hello! I’m strongly considering a pancake tortoise and honestly I’m not against breeding them in the future due to the very low amount of them available in my country. I may have the opportunity to buy 3 unrelated hatchlings (knowing if I get all 2.1, 3.0 etc I’d have to rehouse some), but my...

I shouldn’t say he’s the only one with original Egyptians, but he’s definitely one of the few and MAY be the only.

Yannick is the only person who breeds original generation Egyptians in Canada to my knowledge. There’s a few others that sometimes pop up but they’re all F2+, so do with that as you wish. He’s the only person I would buy an Egyptian off of, and one of the only I’d buy a tortoise off of like...

Right? When we keep mammals, for the most part we disrupt their hormones with neuter/spay, but with reptiles; especially tortoises it’s been eating at me. With snakes & lizards it’s not really seen as a problem and many keep individuals their whole lives and other than maybe some seasonal food...

Hello all, I just thought I’d spark a friendly conversation about tortoise breeding. For background, I have one sub-adult Russian & one hatchling Egyptian that are thriving, from lots of help from the forum & my tortoise breeder. I am eventually going to get one of the Hermann’s to round out...

Thank you Tom, was hoping for a reply from you (and any other of these wonderful keepers) The slight bumpiness in the shell seem fine for a growing Russian? It’s weird because sometimes I see some bumps and get stressed then the scutes seem to kind of grow out and smooth it out before repeating...

I should add that they have a humid hide that stays above 80% all the time and that will continue and their cool side humidity spikes to 90 overnight and I’ve never seen it dip below high 60’s in the height of the day. Soaked almost everyday (once in a while I skip) and shell gets a mist during...

Hello! Just commenting to get some opinions on the size of my Russian who is turning one next week. Everything I’ve been reading says maybe they’re too big and if that’s the case I’ll definitely cut down on the foods. Carapace length in a straight line is 3 1/2”. Gets a whole whack of various...