This is Libyan Greek. They not supposed to brumate. Did you say you had him for 55 years ? Did he brumate in the past ? Those are highly sensitive species and recently imported a lot into United States
What kind of golden Greek is this. Are you talking about terrestris. There is locale as well. I won’t put a 1.6 year old tortoise out. Specially those not cold hardy. They can not means they should. some people had success hibernate some don’t. even for so called golden Greek. There are ones...
is worm coming out your egyptian tortoise ? Most Egyptian in United states are captive b and kept indoor. How did worm get there in the first place. send to correct tortoise forum section might be helpful
very beautiful. they got nick name "beautiful turtles". the black stripe on the plastron looks similar to Mandarin word "beauty". the more like that world the higher they can be sell ( weird lol). for the enclosure, i went to a breeding facility many years ago. they set them up pure aquatic...
this must be CB even they were imported from China. first for CITE2, only CB can be exported out of china. 2 pani pretty much extinct in the wild. 3. there are a lot breeders in china produce enough new pani for the market every year. even though they were imported, but im pretty sure they are...
@TammyJ . she escaped around 40s and i bring her back next day morning.
@ZEROPILOT, excuse my english. you are correct. cooler temperatures cause those slow down of digestion, i believe there are food not been digested in time and cause the constipation.
Want give an update for everyone. After whole winter raising temperatures under indoor enclosure and continuously soaking under 88+ degree. The tortoise condition is getting much better. She past out some food little by little. And limbing is improving significantly. Now I moved her back to...
I separate her out. The other tortoise seems fine and did not infected. That’s actually the first thing I did. I brought her inside into a separate enclosure.
This female decided to take walk in a cold night or early morning and escaped from her night box enclosure. I found her stone hard though she might be dead.
I warmed her with ceremic heat bulb, And she seems okay, she seem not having running nose (yet) or problem to breathe. But today i found...
I thought it’s a she but she kept mounting on other females after the rain. I heard from my friends some of his cherry heads does so as well. Or is that too young to sex yet ?
I recently acquired this a group of red foot subadult 1.4 , shell length 6 to 9 inches. my previous experience mostly around box turtle and Testudo gene. As fall coming, I want to prepare for their winter enclosure. Not sure need to build a big indoor enclosure or use their current outdoor...