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    Cherryhead male or female

    This cherryhead is at a buddy of mines rescue. What do you guys think? Pics arnt good, sorry. I'm saying female, what do you guys think? N2torts?
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    How's my new growth look?

    As some of you may remember I took in a tortoise, my first, about 2 months ago that didnt have proper care previously. He's been given proper humidity, protein, UV, diet, heat, etc.... I've been expecting all new growth to be smooth. But seeing as this is my first tort and I'm unfamiliar with...
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    Those of you with known locality reds....

    I'm wondering about the scale pattern on the head; how much variance are you guys seeing amongst the same locale animals, and how major are the differences between localities? And couple some of you post some pics of the various locals scale pattern on the head? I'm a sucker for localities( I...
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    HD topsoil and pine bark

    Okay so I just got done removing all the dirt out of my RFs cage and filled it back with organic topsoil from Home Depot.... And it seems there pine bark in it. After some research it is pine bark in the soil( and a descent amount of it). Is this typical of topsoil from the big name retailers...
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    Red foots and animal protein?

    For those of you that feed mice to your red foots; how often do you feed them mice? I've read once a week to once a month. I plan to feed young adult mice to my little guy( he's about 6-7 inchs) as opposed to pinkies for the organ and bone content instead of the high fat low calcium pinkies. Any...
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    Red foot enclosure questions

    Ok so, as with all other aspects of the reptile comunity, there's alot of conflicting information on tortoise housing. Opinions aside what are the facts of airflow, open top tables, enclosed cages.... I've read alot that torts NEED alot of airflow( respritory issues from ammonia and stale air)...
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    Hello all from NC

    Hello everyone, figured I'd do one of these threads before I start drilling everyone for information. I'm an experienced reptile keeper with experience working with everything from hots to crocodilians; but I mostly keep pythons. I haven't had any real experience with torts so I'm looking to...
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