ID help please.

[Mick.Ire]

So just wondering what the top tortoise is, it's very like a young redfoot, dark colouration but as you'll see it's head and limbs are both yellow. I know some reds can be yellow when young so just wondering what ye guys think, They were sold as two yellows. Cheers.

Top tortoise

 

[FLINTUS]

I reckon it's one of those yellow reds Mick. Any chance of a plastron shot?
Are these to go with your other yellow foot?

 

[Mick.Ire]

I reckon it's one of those yellow reds Mick. Any chance of a plastron shot?
Are these to go with your other yellow foot?

No mate not mine, asking for someone I know. Never seen it in person so hard to tell but it is quite dark for a pure yellow right, although it's head and limbs say otherwise. I'll ask for a plastron shot.

 

[FLINTUS]

The legs are making me think more yellow foot now actually. Many more coloured scales than what you see in young red foots-not sure whether that really makes sense but oh well.
The 2nd I one below I would say is 85% likely to be a yellow foot from that picture, so if the animals are from, say a petshop, the animals will be from the same source so should technically be the same species-nice theory, doesn't always work in practice.

 

[Mick.Ire]

looks yellow to me, prob just a very dark one.

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yeah true and thanks mate, ah sure time will tell as most reds form some sort of orange or red as they mature.

 

[Bryan]

They're both yellow colored Redfoots http://www.tortoiseforum.org/thread-14270.html

 

[mike taylor]

They are reds man reds . Ha ha man there reds . Very nice reds to boot .

 

[immayo]

They are reds. Yellows have a different scale pattern on their noses.

 

[Mick.Ire]

100 % sure guys before I inform the owner?

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also will they form any red marking as they mature?

 

[FLINTUS]

They are reds. Yellows have a different scale pattern on their noses.

Technically yes, but the noses are very inconsistent, very often wrong. That said, the plastron does look more yellow foot IMO

 

[mike taylor]

I would say 100% sure reds. Look at these two very little red on the head . One of them has almost no red .

 

[Mick.Ire]

after examining my little yellowfoot the split scale is pretty obvious and the head in the above pic does look like typical scale formation of a red. history is sketchy too so most likely reds as yellows not too common here in Ireland, either that or crosses.
Cheers.

 

[FLINTUS]

Sorry I meant plastron looks more like red foot.

 

[Mick.Ire]

Sorry I meant plastron looks more like red foot.

yeah they must be reds.

 

[Redfoot NERD]

Whitney knows.. the nose - easiest way to tell the difference -

Yellowfoot..



A "Colombian" from awhile back..



Those "light-yellow" are almost always from Colombia!