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Hi guys, Tom here. I have a 12 inch aldabra tortoise juvenile up for sale. $3000. Eats nonstop, has the usual juvenile aldabra hatred of all humans, though I personally think it doesn't hate me anymore, just doesn't like me very much. It likes climbing the rock outcropping in it's...

Hey guys, I was curious. I live in South Texas. I have a pond with three western painted turtles. I've put a few lilies in the pond, and they usually get torn up by the turtles before summer's out. I have a lot of sunken wood and split terracotta pots, fun places for the turtles to hide to...

Hi guys, Just a few pictures of some of the radiateds. Oldest is a 2013 born animal, youngest are 2018 born. They're all doing exceedingly well. I've got the 2013-2017s out of the baby screen covered house and into the main run. I still bring everyone indoors at night, given my paranoia...

Hi guys, Long time no post. Sorry about that. Life has been rather difficult as of late. Not really interested in getting into it. I have a bit of a conundrum. One of my radiated tortoises passed away suddenly last night. Blood has been pouring from her nose and mouth today, 12 hours...

Hi guys, It's been a while. I'll post pictures soon. Unfortunately, I haven't posted in some time, given that I suffered a tragedy this past winter. Big Gino, the pride of my herd, the big bull male that I raised from a hatchling, the beast who has been with me for a length of time second...

Hi guys, So, I didn't post about it, but last year, a big female red eared slider I had adopted from a friend of my mother's perished in the outdoor pond over the winter. One day in December, it was warm out, and she emerged from the mud to bask. A cold front came in later that evening, and...

Hi guys, Here's a link to the USARK blog post on HR2603, a bill that will apparently abolish the CBW system. http://usark.org/2017-blog/action-alert-h-r-2603/ Thoughts? What will this mean for the captive reproduction of rads? T.G.

So, I recently picked up a Jack Dempsey fish at a local aquarium shop, and for the first two months, I fed the little fella nothing but Wardley sinking pellets. Seemed to suit him just fine. As he got larger, I started supplementing his diet with red runner Turkistan roaches, which I would...

I always feel like a fool when I see a topic on the forum that sounds really compelling, so I read the posts, and it is compelling, and a member has commented recently, so that makes it even more compelling, but then I realize after I've posted (sometimes multiple times) that the thread is over...

New rads from Houston. Here it goes. T.G.

So, most of the info I've garnered on this particular afflicting organism has been here on the forum, and given it's potential to manifest itself in rads, I've been rolling some questions over in my mind. Has I. Coccidiosis ever been documented in Testudo marginata, Testudo ibera, Testudo...

So, I recently learned from deadheadvet and more informed members than myself exactly what is entailed in an endoscopy, specifically, a veterinary process to determine the sex of a sexually immature tortoise. For those unaware, sexing hatchling tortoises is impossible. And sexing sexually...

Hi guys, So, I've had my rad for a few days, and everything is going great so far. I've been seriously considering getting more of them so that I might be a rad breeder in my old age; sure, maybe I'm jumping the gun, but this is a species I very much enjoy so far, and I'm quite certain that...

Alright guys, ya'll know me. I'm the guy with the marginated tortoises. Now, I don't know how many of you follow my threads and posts, but I've been debating getting a large tropical tortoise for some time. First, I was considering getting another sulcata after the untimely demise of my...

Hi guys, Some pictures of my margies. Big Gino is the one eating in front of his house, Little Gino is the guy I've got in my hand in extreme closeup, Lady Gino is the one laying the eggs, and the others are of various babies hatched this year and last. Oh yeah, and there's a picture of me...

I've always been curious. Can they brumate? Is this a situation in which some populations do and others don't? Can the ones who don't actually brumate and survive? Could they survive outdoors in an environment like, say, South Texas, South Florida, or Southern California? Does anyone have...

So my Lady Gino is now gravid, gaining weight every day, and increasingly restless. It's been a few years since I separated her completely from any unsupervised male contact. It is spring and the weather is fine, so I decided to make some modifications to Little Marge's enclosure. As I...

So, I've been curious. Reading some of the threads, I've noticed folks have many different ways of feeding their torts. I'd like to share mine. Whenever I feed my maginated tortoises and my one Greek tortoise, I feed them whole leaves. This is either provided by way of access to a grazing...

This may sound odd, but does anyone else here ever dream of tortoises, only the tortoises in your dream don't match any known species? For instance, I had this one tortoise dream (yes, that's a dream classification for me; has been for decades) where I was taking care of my tortoises in this...

Apologies for belaboring this topic, given that it comes up at least once per month, but I was wondering if anyone else had success using human urine to foil ant colonies. I recently returned from a friend who lives in Three Rivers, TX. He keeps a sulcata, and the topic of ants came up, about...