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My Burmese Star eggs are hatching out. I need help finding homes for them all. I stopped using paper towels on the bottoms of the brooder boxes a few years ago. Now I alternate grape leaves and mulberry leaves. In addition to today's grape leaves, they got some lavatera flowers, and some green...

Anyone have a friend or family member with a koi pond? A family friend and her koi survived the Palisade fire, but there will be no power and no water to that area for a very long time. She has four that are about 12 inches, and a few smaller ones. My fiends house did not burn down, but most of...

My babies are growing. I need to sell a few. Anyone want some:

Anyone want a well started baby? I hatched a few: Here are Mom and Dad:

These babies hatched last month and are healthy, started correctly and ready to go to their new homes. They are soaked daily and fed a wide variety of good foods. $70 each. Volume discounts for groups. Message me with any questions.

Mexican spiny tail iguanas. Ctenosaura pectinata. This variety is called "banana pectinata" due to the yellow colors. If you are in to lizards, you can't do much better than this. They are dog tame, and I mean dog tame. They come to you just because they want to. The first one I ever saw was a...

There is a fantastic new product available to help with feeding our tortoises better. I think most people will agree that a wide variety of weeds, leaves, succulents, and flowers is the best diet for our tortoises, but the reality is that no one can provide the "perfect" natural diet year round...

I wanted to ask what people's opinions are on dogs in public. Our own views are skewed by our own experiences. There is no right or wrong answer. Maybe a tortoise forum full of people who love pets isn't the most subjective place to get an answer, but this is what I've got since I really don't...

It seems like a lot of tortoise keepers are into the same sort of things. I've met lots of people that are into the same things I am into. I just discovered quite by chance that two of my favorite TTPG friends are also bee keepers. Anyone one else here like messin' with bees and eatin' honey?

Let's talk turtles. With no qualification or explanation, I asked this question of several of the known "turtle guys" at this year's recent TTPG meeting. The answers were fun, entertaining, and educational for me. I realize that everyone has different preferences in size, shape, color...

These guys hatched in late May and they are 55 and 57 grams now after a good long soak. $400 each plus over night shipping. They eat everything. The one couldn't even be bothered to finish the photo shoot before chowing down on anything green within reach.

This year's babies are eating everything, growing, and they are ready to go. Contact me for pricing and shipping info. Questions are welcome.

Every once in a while, you come across something so amazing, you just have to share it. Well, I'm sharing it... I've been keeping all sorts of monitors lizards since the 80s. Niles, savanna's, waters, mangroves, dumerils, black throats, and most recently red ackies. I love the whole family and...

There are about a dozen or so tortoise weeds that I know are safe and have checked on at some point over the years, but I can never remember the names. Today I took the time to look up one of them. This is London Rocket: Its in the Brassicae family. Related to mustard and arugula. Its a very...

Will @Kapidolo Farms has done it again. "It" being inventing yet another fantastic way for all of us to easily improve the quality of the foods we are feeding to our tortoises. Many tortoise species eat grass. We don't always have grass readily available, and sometimes the grass is in a form...

Hello and welcome to tortoiseforum.org! We are all glad you are here! There is no other forum like this anywhere. We have tens of thousands of members from all over the world ranging from kids with their first tortoise to people who have been breeding and keeping high end tortoises since the...

I was reminded today that not everyone knows that "hard" foods like opuntia, cucumber, carrots, or this time of year, pumpkin should not be cut up and fed in chunks. Chunks of these types of food will be swallowed whole by tortoises and can cause them to choke to death. It doesn't happen every...

Every fall we get bombarded here on the forum with all sorts of questions and problems regarding hibernation and tortoises "slowing down" for winter. The purpose of this thread is to talk about all aspects of this subject, to dispel some of the myths and mysteries, and give a "how to" list of...

As a tortoise food, what's wrong with iceberg lettuce? Or other lettuce types too? 1. Too low in calcium. 2. Low Ca : P ratio. 3. Low fiber. 4. Low nutritional value. Its everything a tortoise food should not be. Right? But what if we amend the lettuce? What if we mix in things to make up for...

I've been wanting to do this thread for a long time... This species has become one of my all time favorites, and for good reasons! The purpose of all of my ramblings that follow are primarily intended to showcase how great this species is and why its a better species for most people than most...