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  1. Tortoise_Wrangler

    A Tortoise impersonates Owen Wilson

    I love this.
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    How my tortoises made friends with lizards.

    This little guy is the Western Fence Lizard aka blue bellied lizard. If you live in Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah or Washington then you probably see these guys all the time. When I first moved into my neighborhood here in SoCal, I rarely saw these guys and didn't think much...
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    Just a little something I learned about wind, tortoises and their enclosures.

    So I had to leave for an overnight vacation on the one day the winds came in strong. I have recently built the current enclosure and it was never wind tested. Now I don't want anyone to worry, the obvious lesson of this story never happened and my tortoises are fine. My enclosure did fine...
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    My heart sank this morning...

    My hatchling ingested a dog hair, I'm not sure how seeing that I clean her food and her substrate and her terrarium is a no dog zone. It must have been on my hand or floating through the air. My dog has long hair and about 2/3rds of it has passed through, but she's the size of a half dollar and...
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    Romneya coulteri Aka Matilija poppy

    My neighbor grows this in large quantities and I have found multiple sources stating this to be a non-toxic plant. I'm still coming to the forum to see if anyone here also feeds this poppy to their torts. I have RTs, Pancakes and Marginateds. Thanks.
  6. Tortoise_Wrangler

    A lesson learned the hard way.

    I was out one afternoon inspecting my Russian enclosure when I found a weak point on the siding. It wasn't a vulnerability for escape, but for invasion, this was something I would learn later... Some of you know where this is going. In my head, it was more of an aesthetics problem, so I designed...
  7. Tortoise_Wrangler

    After some years of hardwork... I've been rewarded.

    I've raised Tortoises since I was 5, but for the first time in my life I've been able to pursue my hobby further by actually having the room to breed Russian Tortoises. I built a nice 15ft x 6ft enclosure for my herd, it has 7 different types of plants available at all times to graze on and a...
  8. Tortoise_Wrangler

    SocalReptiles

    So I have bought 3 tortoises from SocalReptiles and I have never been anything but 100% satisfied with my purchase. Not only do they have some of the most beautiful tortoises I've seen, but they are extremely healthy and hardy. My first purchase was a Pancake hatchling, and he immediately took...
  9. Tortoise_Wrangler

    Hello

    Hello everyone, my name is Jim from Southern California and I've been raising Tortoises for 23 years. I'm 28 years old and work/own a small business with my very small family. When I was a small boy I was shown a cartoon by my older cousin, that is known as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turles and...
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