Recent content by John1982

Welcome to the club, you picked up some nice cuties there! Just the way they move, act and look with that pulsating throat screams ancient - love manouria.

Beautiful pair! Looks like Phae had you pinned down in the first pic, did she go for a taste or are they well behaved?

They were yearlings when I got them. The scutes were not raised. The small % of their diet that isn't greens/sweet potatoes is pretty random. I've offered and seen them consume pumpkin, watermelon, honeydew, cantaloupe, grapes(leaves and fruit), tomato, cauliflower, broccoli, spinach...

Can you link me threads/pictures of the conical spurs? I water my tortoises every day it doesn't rain. When I go to water the elephant ears(growing next to enclosure) the torts get a good soaking too. On hotter days I often leave the hose in the enclosure for 10-15 minutes, which floods it...

Thanks you two. The leaves are some type of elephant ear(colocasia) that I've planted around the enclosure. During the growing months they get as many as the plants can spare. This equates about 1 meal a week but I'm hoping to let them eat more alocasia/colocasia as I get more plants established.

I've had these two almost a decade now and love them to death - just thought I'd share a bit. Martha is the bigger one at ~17 inches, George is ~11 inches. When they were 2 years old or so we had some heavy rains and George escaped due to some washout on the side of their old enclosure. I...

Those are some huge yellowfoots! Thank you for the info Baoh, you made a believer outta me. Now to find someone who is actually working with these behemoths, the search resumes!

I remember seeing some ads popping up for these a while back and being skeptical(some of them claimed they got up to 30+ inches).. Mostly it was young torts being offered but occasionally I'd seen animals that were larger but not out of the size range of the normal yellow foots(15-16 inches). I...

I did a quick search for your questions earlier, hope this helps. http://www.tortoiseforum.org/Thread-Suggestions-suggestions-about-my-Golden-Greek#axzz1TjQmqHNW http://www.tortoiseforum.org/Thread-I-think-my-tort-has-some-psych-issues#axzz1TjQmqHNW[hr] As to the water dish, it's not so...

Too cool, my torts love their daily showers too but I have nothing near that big! :)

Very cool post to read, good luck!

I have a lot of fire ants as well and watering the plants/enclosure every day does a good job of keeping them out for me.

Congratulations to everyone, the pictures were all great and choosing just a handful was indeed difficult.

It was an open contest and I rather enjoyed having so many pictures from which to choose. I'm a new member myself, though I joined a bit before the contest, so maybe that's why it doesn't bother me. I know 1 thing, by the time I got halfway through the pictures I had used all my votes and had...

Too cute, I love the "making like a pumpkin" one. :)