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a couple more pictures taken today

It is.... 2008 burnt orange!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I only have my cell phone for pictures, hard to get good close ups in focus. Here are a couple of her along with another female and a male. Sorry about the messy faces!! a couple of the pics were taken with the flash turned on and gave the eyes a reddish center. .

The Tampa Bay Turtle and Tortoise Society will have a table at the show, stop by and say hello!!!! Mark

Here are a few more pics. Except for her eyes, she's a typical looking redfoot.

she seems to get around fine, has no problem finding her hide box and reacts to movements around her.

I just acquired her yesterday, an adult female. Both eyes are the same color blue.

How common or rare are blue eyes?

you might try putting some potted plants in with them. Even artificial plants will help if you mist them a couple times a day and get them good and wet. Spider plants work well and are safe for the tortoises, you can leave them in their pots and place a couple in the enclosure. keep them watered...

that's Bidens alba common name is spanish needles or beggars tick. when it matures it will have small white and yellow daisy like flowers. the leaves are edible for both tortoises and people. I feed them to my red foots.

the 2nd one is Urena lobata, which is in the hibiscus family and is also edible. I have never tried feeding it to any of my torts, I pull them up by the roots when I find any coming up in my yard because they have a hard pricker seed bur that is hard to remove from our dog's hair.

the 3rd one is Bidens alba, it is edible for both people and torts, my redfoots eat the young leaves.

Look like galopagos tortoises.

Beautiful tortoise!! Do you have a pic you can post of it as a hatchling or a yearling!?! :)

Wow, wow and more wow!!!!!! I really like the lighter orange one.

Hi and welcome to the forum, a great place for info!!! You should also check out The Turtle and Tortoise Club of Florida's page on facebook. there is a Clearwater chapter that meets once a month at Moccasin Lake Nature Park.

here's another way to think of it - take a coin and paint both sides black, this is your normal red foot with two normal recessive genes (blk in this example) - take another coin and paint one side black, your normal gene, and one side white, your hypo gene. This is your het. one normal,dominant...

How sure are you about it being raccoons? It looks a lot like armadillo digging. Its not their main diet, but they will eat turtle eggs and even ground nesting bird eggs and nestlings.

Would love to hear about, and see some pics of your spiders! Thanks for starting this thread, it's been very informative.