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Well today is the day well actually yesterday for one of them :) four eggs from my Penelope (what an egg layer she is) are pipping right now after approx 65 days of incubation in my ghetto bator this will be my largest clutch to hatch 4/4 usually i lose a few eggs :( so im pretty excited...

Okay so this is my juvi GCBT Buttercup that i recieved when i purchased my other Gulfs she is going to be such a pretty turtle :)

Okay, so one of my hatchlings (Lady Bug) has eaten once that i know of and actually it was two rather large worm chunks for her body size. However since that time i havnt been able to watch either of them eat or seen any food missing or nibbled on. What i mean is i was leaving both worms and...

Alright, a recent thread has had me thinking about hybrid box turtles. Western Box turtles are composed of the Desert box and the Ornate (also known as western) Box Turtle, while the Eastern Box is comprised of the Eastern, Three Toed, Gulf Coast and Florida Box Turtle. The Western and Eastern...

Im in the works of sucuring these three wonderful turtles 1.2, in fact i am paying and having them shipped overnight Monday! He had many to choose from but i simply could not turn these guys down! The male and one female are what id consider "non typical" gulf box turtles with the high yellow...

Here are some pictures of my 20gal lond planted terrerium it will recieve its first resident in the next few days followed hopfully but another 4 :)

Alright so in my searching of old threads internet sites and the like ive come up with conflicting suggestions regarding the first set up hatchlings should go into. The first is suggested that i have a very simple arrangement so that i can easily locate and moniter the hatchling, The other...

Okay... here it is after many weeks i delivered today! {just as i told you i would JOJO :) even if it is 10pm pst :)} This is Miss Stinky, a rescue found wondering a public park in Eugene Or, she was suffering from shell rot (stinky) and had previous shell damage resembling some sort of trauma...

Hello All! I am looking to expand my Bale (herd, colony, collection, family) I currently have 2.4. Three Toed Box Turtles, and am looking at other species of new world box turtles (ie: Eastern, Florida, Ornate, Gulf) I am specifically looking for highly colored Easterns 1.3, vibrant...

Hello All! I am looking to expand my Bale (herd, colony, collection, family) I currently have 2.4. Three Toed Box Turtles, and am looking at other species of new world box turtles (ie: Eastern, Florida, Ornate, Gulf) I am specifically looking for highly colored Easterns 1.3, vibrant...

link to general discussion thread funny pictures http://www.tortoiseforum.org/Thread-Funny-Turtle-and-Tortoise-Pictures#axzz1piWBu3vE

Here are a few of my favorite funny turtle pictures :-) feel free to contribute any i missed or any you think are worthy :P Enjoy! and finally one of my favorites

okay so tonight the night that i had to finally give up on one of penelopes two eggs she blessed me with two more... which is why im up at 1AM she didnt show any signs of digging until she was laying so now i have her first egg, moostashas single egg and now two smaller but still perfect eggs...

Okay so i checked the incubator, and.... there is mold... kinda growing on the substright soooooo i changed it out and placed them back on new substraight, of the two eggs penelope laid one has turned off yellow a week or more ago and today i have finally gave up on it :( seeing as it had a...

so i was contacted by email from an old aquaintence whom asked if i would be interested in a trio of three toed boxies, and i relayed that i most definatly would be intersted in another trio :) so now not only do i have my current trio wally penelope penny a lone ornate miss stinky two in the...

Okie Dokie here are the pictures of the Incubator the bowl of rocks is to keep a tight seal for the lid, preventing the escape of humidity and heat Dont mind the temp gauge due to the angle they both look off* the small thermometer is a few degree cooler then the brown one but it...

ive got 1 egg so far! more to come? maybe maybe maybe got some video got some pictures will post tomorrow when its all finished! IM SO EXCITED i dont even know why im online! absdicv9odiwdobwiubhwpovjcpoqwf24f73 IF YOU CANT TELL this is my first time :)!!!

My penelope has dug a few "test" nests the last few days, im getting excited about a possible laying in the days to come :), in which case ill be buying a poultry incubator and possibly hatch out my first little tortles :) :P:tort::P:tort::P

i was looking around the web today and looking at my own personal turts of past and present. has anybody or does anybody have a FEMALE ttbt with white facial coloration? of my two current females penelope has a little bit of orange on her lower jaw, where as penny has a few vivid orange red...

the day prior to yesterday i noticed a small bulge on the side of penelopes ear i did my research and decided it was the beginning of a ear absess. so i kept looking around the web yaddda yadda and yesterday after it seemed to be large enough to deal with i took her into my vet and had it lanced...