Recent content by MatteoV

East african, the female is from Tanzania and the male is south african. This is the female: Mating: These pictures are of malagasy bell's(I think they are domerguei) were taken ​​by a friend of mine in the Antananarivo park:

Thank you all! Just waiting for a teleporter to be invented! Seth Brundle where are you?! Unfortunately they are really rare here, I've never seen one. The second came out!. This one has the spots on the scutes. Resembles his father very much!

Hi everybody! I came back with this good news: My first Kinixys belliana zombensis hatchling! The colors are very different from nogueyi and from zombensis/nogueyi crossbreed. The carapace does not have small brown spots of nogueyi hatchlings, the head is yellow with black nose. If I...

Hi everyone! Some photos of my spotted turtles: I bought them in 2008, the seller told me that it should come from South Carolina but I'm not sure. Keep them outside most of the year in a waterland tub, in December I move them in an unheated room at about...

These pictures were taken about ten days ago: Soon I will post new photos. ^__^

Thanks to everyone for the comments! The second baby is born! Has hatched 15 days later than the first, this is normal in these tortoises. The strange thing is that the embryonic development of this egg was at least 20 days in advance of the other egg. When the embryo of this egg was about 5 mm...

A little update: :)

In the first two eggs, the embryo is clearly visible. :) Meanwhile I had two other depositions, one from the same female and one from an other female. I'm waiting for two more depositions, I hope to have a total of 15/16 eggs.

Congratulations! Please keep us updated on progress!

I agree with you.

After much effort, here are some fresh eggs! Usually this female lays 4 eggs at once, this time it has laid two. I hope that this tortoise lay more eggs this year, last year has laid 8 eggs.

Congratulations, it's really beautiful! I like very much the pattern of the shell, has a lot of yellow.

Hi you all! I want to share with you some photos. These tortoises are bred by a couple of my friends, Alessandro and his wife, Jitka, (these specimens are from the French Guiana) They are very experienced, and reproduce a lot of babies I hope that you enjoy the photos

Congratulations!!!! It 's a rare and extraordinary event! These animals are difficult to reproduce.

I had no problems of fighting. I have three males together, only two are sexually mature. The babies has very delicate eyes and can easily injure each other, especially while eating. So I think it is better to keep together no more than 4/5 specimens in a terrarium.