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Thought i’d line them up and take a photo of them like i did when i was in school. Haha.

Finally completed my 4.5ft by 3.5ft dual tier setup. Whole setup rests on a 4ft by 3ft dolly with 7 caster wheel for mobility. Upper tier propped up by an old dining table with 4 additional legs installed for better support. Drainage pipes on upper tier meant for watering the substrate and...

Sunning all them tortoises together.

Hi all, l’ve recently acquired two pancake tortoise sub adults. They’re about 5” in length, eats well, climbs/hides well, very active when soaked and sunned. But i’m curious and a little concern, do these fellas have sunken eyes or do their eyes generally look like it’s sunken and a little...

Hi all, i’ve recently rescued a pair of baby sulcata tortoise from an inexperienced keeper. He had this pair for about 3 months but recently their appetite dropped and one of the started swelling in the face. I’ve been trying to get it to eat but to no avail. So what i do is bring up the temp...

i tried giving my Cherry Heads and they gobbled them up pretty fast. almost like when i throw them hibiscus leaves. the Indian star, Leopard and Sulcata didn’t care for it much.

Hi, does anyone know if Piper Sarmentosum is safe for torts? It’s usually eaten raw as part of a salad delicacy in Asia and I have an abundant amount of this where I live. here’s more info on the plant: https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/dna/organisms/details/347 a study conducted on it...

I’m using the Reptile Max 60. It has temperature control but have to manually adjust the humidity.

how big is your red foot tort? any chance signs of the plastron concavity yet?

That’s what i thought. But oh well, i’ll leave it in the incubator still.

I woke up to yet another egg this morning from my female Cherry Head. As usual, i marked it with a pencil and carefully placed it in the incubator. However, i observed a stark difference in this egg as compared to the previous ones. It is at least 20% smaller. This is the first time this has...

Thank you for those kind words!

oh alright. thanks for that. i was so panic-stricken and in fear of damaging the egg that i didn’t think of doing that. it’s too late to do anything now right, since it has already dried up and formed like a crust?

Hi, my CHRF female has laid her egg on the surface. This is the third time she’s doing so despite digging a 3” pit on the other end of the enclosure. Reading on how fragile the egg is, i marked it with a pencil so i don’t unknowingly roll it over and carefully place it in the incubator. The...

Hi, can anyone help me on this? I can access the site on my cellular using VPN but not on my Mac. Any help is much appreciated! and thank you in advance!