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Hi everyone. I live in the balmy subtropics of Hong Kong, Im from South Africa. Incredibly and luckily I managed to get a lovely house right in the middle of the mountain national park.
This is where my three dogs, fish and giant monitor lizard (wild) are resident plus the comings and goings of various wild life. Now two tiny little Indian Star tortoises have joined the team.
I have kept a few reptile species for varying lengths of time, all local species. My recent project was "Gekko Ghecko" I had about 30 of them which I released around this neck of the woods as they had become extinct in this area due to collection for medicine. If only they wouldn't call so happily and loudly to each other from the trees they might just take off as a breeding population.
I have absolutely no experience with tortoises, closest I came was when an endangered bigheaded turtle suddenly arrived in the garden. I took her back to the nearest stream. She had obviously taken a wrong turn and headed for my reservoir (open water storage, huge concrete swimming pool pond). And seeing many wild ones in Africa, which of course I have watched keenly.
All i know thus is what I have read and observed in the wild of African species. Its a mayhem of conflicting opinion out there with surprisingly very little research into wild African and Indian tortoises.
So Im hoping to get opinions and valued experience from members here. So far I am very grateful to the forum. Although dont understand fully why but that protein is not such a problem but humidity is for hatchlings proper development. Mine live outside in 80-90 humidity so I feel a big sigh of relief. Thanks :shy:
This is where my three dogs, fish and giant monitor lizard (wild) are resident plus the comings and goings of various wild life. Now two tiny little Indian Star tortoises have joined the team.
I have kept a few reptile species for varying lengths of time, all local species. My recent project was "Gekko Ghecko" I had about 30 of them which I released around this neck of the woods as they had become extinct in this area due to collection for medicine. If only they wouldn't call so happily and loudly to each other from the trees they might just take off as a breeding population.
I have absolutely no experience with tortoises, closest I came was when an endangered bigheaded turtle suddenly arrived in the garden. I took her back to the nearest stream. She had obviously taken a wrong turn and headed for my reservoir (open water storage, huge concrete swimming pool pond). And seeing many wild ones in Africa, which of course I have watched keenly.
All i know thus is what I have read and observed in the wild of African species. Its a mayhem of conflicting opinion out there with surprisingly very little research into wild African and Indian tortoises.
So Im hoping to get opinions and valued experience from members here. So far I am very grateful to the forum. Although dont understand fully why but that protein is not such a problem but humidity is for hatchlings proper development. Mine live outside in 80-90 humidity so I feel a big sigh of relief. Thanks :shy: