Recent content by Laryblack

No, you can't get them legalized :/ . The population have to denounce you, then the authorities come to your house and analyze the documentation. As the babies don't have it, authorities took them and the owners are arrested for some years and have to pay 5000 reais (around 2500 dollars), plus...

In Brazil it's different. Even if you have a legalized couple and they breed, their little turtoises are not legalized, being prohibited even for the owner to have it. The wild turtoises are far away from Rio de Janeiro, and mostly of the sellers show pictures of the babies with their parents...

Yes, I want to get one in the future, but maybe in one or two years from now. As I'm busy with work and I can't ask for my sister to keep animals because of what happened, and I will have to wait until I go to a new house, closer to my work. Also, now I know that even living in Rio de Janeiro...

That's okay guys. I don't have other turtoises, but I have cockatiels that live in the same room that the turtoise was. I had him for 4 months and he was about five or six months alive

He is dead, guys :( . He started to smell yesterday morning (as I live in Brazil and here is hot). Me and my family buried him in the yard yesterday at night, putting only ground up on him (in a last hope to him be alive). Thank you guys.

I will wait until tomorrow to see if he moves. Maybe it could be a lack of sunlight, because I asked my sister to put him outside while I was at work, but she didn't :( Thanks anyway for your support and for answering as fast as you can. It was meaningful to me.

My red foot has stopped moving today. He did not eat much this week, though I fed him with cabbage, broccoli, beet, and egg. Now when I move his leg, he's soft, the head is inside the shell. I put him in the warm water, put other food, heat lamp and nothing. The eyes are closed and somewhat...