Thank you I have only one tortoise hatching and he is half yellowfoot and half redfoot his name is Harry Potter he had his one year vet check and he is healthy and growing very fast his shell color is not keeping up so he scutes are cream color in the crevices he has been in the large enclosure...
Hi my male sulcata has become a teenager and he has been acting a little bit strange
Up until 2 years ago he played in our huge fenced in yard for several years so when he disappeared and was missing for 3 hours I was a basket case thank god and our neighbors he was found and brought back home...
These two eggs are the first to hatch
I have a zoo-med incubator
I found 4 eggs on October 25 2019
I currently have 2 adult male Redfoots
1 female adult Redfoot
1 female adult yellowfoot
2 juvenile Redfoot females
I have built a large enclosure
Most of my adults are rescues
Some from the Plant’s...
I am in need of information about preserving my tortoise, I can't bury him and I do not want him cremated, I read up on how to preserve just his shell. I just want him. He was my baby my best friend, I have a rare bone disease and 1have many surgeries as all of my joints have been replaced...
Hi I have a mid matched group of tortoises/turtles
That we found 7 years ago
By a lake where they had been dumped
I have follow diets pretty close and they are doing good, I have decided to add some new veggies to their diet, so today I gave them zucchini just cut it up and put it with their...
Yes he had 3~1 on left cheek drained x 2
1 under right front leg
1 very large abcess by his right ear I have a picture of the last one day before he passed away and I have pictures of left cheek after surgery I will post pictures
I am looking for a way to preserve my sweet Aboo I have read up on methods to keep his shell how ever I want to preserve all of him
It is very important to me he spent alot of time comforting me as I have a rare bone disease and have required many surgeries to continue to walk, move, use my...
I have had ABOO for 8 years and until the beginning of this year and he has always been very healthy, he developed an abcess on his left cheek it was
Drained and antibiotics where taken, this abcess was drained again more antibiotics we found another abcess under his front right leg drained...
He finished his antibiotics last Thursday, I have been soaking him daily and I
Watched yesterday when I put food in their enclosure and he was sitting in the perfect spot to eat he opened his mouth and wiggled his legs but would not or could not reach out and get any food. My daughter thinks...
Redfoot tortoise has had a hard year 2 accesses and just finished antibiotics for upper respiratory infection
He has always been a slow mover but Now he's will not move and only eats. When I use a syringe full of apple sauce that is how I gave him his medicine so how do I get him to eat and...
I feed him strawberry applesauce with his antibiotics and he eats alot of it and i soak him everyday i still can not figure out why he will not move around, he lives in a large terarium with controled humidity/temp and sun light, we keep it covered, when i check on him (several times a day) he...
Redfoot tortoise not eating or moving around since he had 2 abcesses drained and he currently has an upper respiratory infection and is on antibiotics I am really worried