New leopard tortoise

[yagyujubei]

[/font]Everybody likes to see pics of leopards, here are a couple of pics of my newest. A female, 14" long and about 18 pounds.

 

[ticothetort2]

nice looking girl, congrats...

 

[coreyc]

Looking good Is Leo fever going around Lot of leo's latey I love it

 

[Neal]

Great tortoise! What history do you have on her? As far as what conditions she grew up in, etc...

 

[ALDABRAMAN]

She does look good and big.

 

[yagyujubei]

Great tortoise! What history do you have on her? As far as what conditions she grew up in, etc...

She's from Florida, from a single leopard family. Her previous owner used her for little local reptile exhibitions. The only time she's been bred was last year to a male sulcata, her pen mate. She laid one clutch of eggs, which I believe weren't incubated. Her diet Romaine, squash,apples, banana, and parrot biscuits. The guy wasn't a breeder. When I first saw her I thought she might have been wild caught, but she was raised from a hatchling. I'm going to have to say that she most probably lived her life outside, at least mostly.

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She does look good and big.

She's a big girl. She's almost 11" wide.

 

[CtTortoiseMom]

Wow she's awesome! She looks great.

 

[Neal]

Do you have a male for her?

 

[yagyujubei]

Do you have a male for her?

Not yet.

 

[kbaker]

The only time she's been bred was last year to a male sulcata, her pen mate. She laid one clutch of eggs, which I believe weren't incubated.

It will be interesting to see what she produces. All the leopard/sulcata mixes I know of were from a female sulcata and a male leopard.

 

[yagyujubei]

The only time she's been bred was last year to a male sulcata, her pen mate. She laid one clutch of eggs, which I believe weren't incubated.

It will be interesting to see what she produces. All the leopard/sulcata mixes I know of were from a female sulcata and a male leopard.
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Usually the sulcata males are way too big for a leopard female, but she's got some size, and I understand that the sulcata was young and about her size. Eventhough I wouldn't have bred her outside of her species, if I get eggs, I will incubate them. As far as the breeding goes, instead of leopcatas, I suppose they'd be sulpards. Could be very different from the others we've seen. Look at Ligers and Tigons - completely different. We shall see.

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I don't want to be know as a hybridizer, however if the damage is done, a clutch of eggs could buy me a proper mate for her.

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[B K]

Nice leopard.I didn’t realize but you are like 20min from me I live east of you off 224

 

[yagyujubei]

Nice leopard.I didn’t realize but you are like 20min from me I live east of you off 224

Small world, I'm a couple of miles north of 224.

 

[B K]

Nice leopard.I didn’t realize but you are like 20min from me I live east of you off 224

Small world, I'm a couple of miles north of 224.

Im in Greenwich