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It is not a Het, het is short for heterozygous which means it is a carrier of a recessive trait, but does not exhibit it. This is useful in species where the a certain mutation or trait is desired because that means that the trait can be passed on to its offspring even though it is not expressed.

Sheldon is Sold. Thanks for the interest.

I have found myself in a situation where I cannot seem to find a good long term solution to safely housing my 1 year old Sheldon where he will both have enough space as well as safety from my dogs in my back yard. I really just want what is best for him in the long run and would like for him to...

I have never seen a non standard scute pattern like that, can someone with more experience say how common things like that are and if they are any danger to the tort?

Why do you want to put a mist maker into my tortoises enclosure? After all, nobody would copy my completely original tortoise name Sheldon.

I have to ask, I am dumbfounded that you can keep your tortoise in a college dorm, back in my day(2005, lol) we got in trouble for having geckos we had caught in the dorm and had to get rid of them. Are you skirting the rules and hoping not to get caught or is this allowed at your school?

I like to supplement with these "salads" from carolina pet supply, basically everything you are wanting to grow yourself, but chopped up and dried out. http://www.carolinapetsupply.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=33&products_id=275...

I too am in an apt until next summer and have cats that are intrigued my my tort. What I did for my sully that is about 4 months old is get an under the bed storage container and cut out two big square holes in the top and put plastic hardware cloth over the holes with zip ties through holes I...

49ers' Colin Kaepernick Has Gigantic Tortoise This was forwarded to my by a fellow tortoise keeper and thought I would share. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1434041-49ers-colin-kaepernick-has-gigantic-tortoise-and-twitter-happy-father

Your tortoise looks great, but what is in the fancy case behind the last picture of his underside?

Thanks everyone for the recommendations, Sheldon seems to be eating much better now. I am feeding him fresh Bermuda grass clippings mixed in with misc greens and always a couple of slices of cactus for the high calcium and he really seems to love them. I have ordered some of the powdered weeds...

Nice, that place looks like more fun than St Petersburg on a cold December day for little Rasputin.

Thanks, I have read all the what to feed him posts, just did not see much on the lines of how much and was worried because the second day I had him be barely ate anything, but today he finished most of his Kale and some of his cactus. I currently have Thomas grass hay and fresh Kale greens with...

Hey guys, First post here as I am now the proud owner of a new baby sulcata. I got him Saturday but he does not seem to be eating very much, I can get him to eat a couple of pieces of Kale greens but I was under the impression they eat a lot. Is there anything in particular that I should look...