Hi Gillian,
He is good, eat a lot. He also peed on my floor this morning. He is more active at night. He is not afraid of me now. He even climb on my arm now. :)
Hi Kenn, i think the Philippines is quite close to Elongata's original habitat in terms of temp, humidity, plants, etc. So I would not provide UVB for it if i were you. I am from Shanghai where the temp will drop to below 20 C when Autumn is coming so I have to put it into an indoor enclosure...
Mine leopard and redfoot are all captive bred and raised by human from very early age. I feel they are more relaxed when I handle them and could eat immediately after I let them go. In contrast, the south east Asia tortoise is very wary, I suspected it was caught from wild. It alreay gets...
I give a mix of different brands of pellets, like Mazuri, Versailles, Sudo, rep-cal, zoomed. My leopard likes Sudo and Mazuri a lot. Sometimes, in order to feed him with grass I plant, I grind the pellets into powders and spray them on the grass, so the tort has to eat grass in order to taste...
Thanks for the tips. I live in Shanghai, humidity is around 70. My leopard tort is a bit pyramiding, though. Its previous owner keeps it in indoor enclosure with himidity around 50. I am giving it 80 now, hope that would reduce pyramiding.
Hi, everyone,
Just found this forum when seached leopard tortoise on wikipedia. I have three tortoises and two turtles. The one i would like to introduce first here is my first tortoise, the South Asian tortoise, Bentham. He is about 20 cm long and 5 years old. There is a remarkable heart...