I've got limited experience, but I love this subspecies Neal. What are their personalities like?
Are you getting babies from them?
very cool turtles .... I wouldn't give up on breeding them , having bred dogs for most of my life , from what I've seen , sterility from inbreeding is a long way down the road , lots of bad genetic things happen from inbreeding before sterility , I've actually never seen a sterile dog I would attribute solely to inbreeding .... anythings possible but I doubt those turtles could be inbred enough to cause them to be sterile .....
Any math wizards out there? I'd like to know the odds that I would be talking about how I thought these turtles were sterile and less than an hour later I came across these:
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@Tom Here you go. These are very small, like candy eggs, but I'll incubate them all the same.
Any math wizards out there? I'd like to know the odds that I would be talking about how I thought these turtles were sterile and less than an hour later I came across these:
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@Tom Here you go. These are very small, like candy eggs, but I'll incubate them all the same.
(Just so you know. . . I sent 4 hatchling luteola home with Will a couple weeks ago to sell)
Gotta start somewhere!
If those hatch, I don't want to see any pics, and I don't want you to bring them to TTPG and offer ether to me for sale!
Your killing me Neal. This is one of those that I've always wanted to get into, but never made the time to do it...
Do you have any threads where I can see the adults, Yvonne?
No, but I'll take some tomorrow. They're not very colorful.
I hate to be getting animals only because of their color, but I just love those pistachio heads.
Neal's luteola pics are showing some nice color. Are yours less colorful? I can't remember seeing them. We looked at your 3 toed box turtles a lot because I was trying to tell if that's what my Tommy turtle was so many years ago, but I can't remember seeing your luteola. Maybe my mind was just fried after the drive...No, but I'll take some tomorrow. They're not very colorful.
Neal's luteola pics are showing some nice color. Are yours less colorful? I can't remember seeing them. We looked at your 3 toed box turtles a lot because I was trying to tell if that's what my Tommy turtle was so many years ago, but I can't remember seeing your luteola. Maybe my mind was just fried after the drive...
Several old blurry pics in this thread:Do you have a picture of your old box turtle that you could scan and post?
Several old blurry pics in this thread:
http://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/tommy-turtle.13050/