Frankie is not so smart when it comes to weather. But Frankie is also pretty smart about the weather. I can't decide. He has me completely bamboozled.
During the summer, Frankie is perfectly able to perceive growing temperatures due to sunlight and ambient heat. Smartly, he chooses the coolest spot in his backyard. He can even preceive...
Every year for the last four years we have opened our doors for a party the day before the Daytona Reptile Show. Turtles, food, fun, and more turtles. This year was our best year for attendance with 23 guests. Lots of fun. Hopefully even more can make it. LisaD, we missed you :wub: We plan on doing it next year the Thursday before the show as...
The summer after Blackberry came to stay with me, another interesting resident came into my care. One morning an adult female eastern box turtle was found left anonymously in the overnight drop-box at the wildlife center where I worked at the time. She had no obvious injuries aside from the fact that she was missing one of her front legs. The...
Ed loves eating. And I don't mean just eating. When I drop a pile of food on the floor for her she consumes it and walks around looking for more in a bored sort of what-else-is-there-to-do way. That's not the kind of eating I'm talking about. I am talking about the kind she does outside after she is warmed up to about 100 degrees from...
Today was the first day that Emys took food from my hand. I never would have expected that a white mushroom would be the food that would tempt him enough to eat from my hand. I guess that's my personal bias. I just don't go for mushrooms myself. But apparently Emys does :) The mushrooms were bought in a supermarket, not collected out...
So I just got my new turtles yesterday, one that belongs to my brother, one that is under my wing ;) well they've been real good, eating and playing, they would sleep at night when all the lights are off. i guess from the mood that they are still in, are that they are still a bit afraid of their new environment. however, that won't last...
Yesterday, our oldest cat pushes open the wedged-shut door and comes into the zen room while I am down on the floor reading and Scutes is soaking in her big turtle dish. Morphie strolls straight to the big sun-spot on the carpet, completely oblivious to the turtle, so I decide to allow him to stay, as long as he behaves himself. Scutes notes the...
So today i got my very 1st tortoise. His name is Andante. Andante is an old musical term meaning "in moderately slow time", which frankly couldn't be much more perfect. Andante is a baby red-foot. He's about the darn cutest thing ever.
But i digress...
today, i laid out some nasty lookin food pellets that came with the tort,...
HELLO ALL,IM NEW TO THIS FORUM, I WILL TRY TO KEEP UP WITH IT AND UPDATE IT OFTEN. I HAVE A MALE GREEK TORT AND A FEMALE GOLDEN GREEK. THEY ARE BOTH ABOUT 4 YRS OLD AND THEY'RE GREAT. I CURRENT;Y HAVE THEM IN A 24" X 24" GLASS TERRARIUM, WHICH WAS GREAT WHEN I JUST HAD ME MALE BOUT NOW WITH THE PAIR I FEEL ITS TOO SMALL. SO AS OF...
If anybody knows how to obtain a permit to keep and possibly breed spotted turtles in Il please let me know. I have been a turtle lover for years! I currently have 2 large red ears that I've had for years. I would like to help repopulate the spotted turtle in il. They are on the il indangered list!!! I would also like to...
I have four desert tortoises and they have had babies the last three years. I am not exactly a professional turtle owner, but I have had pretty good luck so far. I have 4 babies and the youngest of them has "lost its tail". I am not sure if this is normal, but I have no idea what to do. Does anyone know? HELP
“Turtle Talks” is a sea turtle conservation program that I created in 2001, at age eleven. It is an out of the box, traveling seminar that visits schools, libraries, and nature events in Florida. I authored a children’s sea turtle activity book and a gopher tortoise activity book, to accompany the program. There are now over 100,000 in print and...
well its been crazy I got a job at a pet store Lila is growing like a weed, I got rid of a lot of turtles, I got 5 cuora trifasciata, I been selling common turtles to get myself my rare turtles, and so on and so on....,,,JON
Well, we made our adoption choice. A bit different than we'd initially anticipated.
The rescue that we adopted Sherman and Bradley from just happened to have another sulcata listed on their site. It said the adoption was pending. I went ahead and sent them an e-mail anyway and told them that if the adoption fell through we may be...
Since the first people to see him are all of you guys here on TT (which is funny because my daughter calls herself TT) :P I've decided to name him after my handle, Scute Carapace. Say hello to the nice people, Scute. Here is a more smooth, even painting of the shell. I also glossed it to make it look a little more natural. After all the...
Hi everyone i am brand new to this forum im glad to see there are so many turtle lovers like myself , so while at work today i came accross a rather large snapper laying eggs i watched for a while then went back to work , at the end of the day i walked to my truck and i saw a ground hog lurkiing around ! Me being an animal lover i wanted to...
Looks like hes been on his dock sleeping from 5PM yesterday! And he still going lol! Well he looks healthy and i noticed he pooped shortly after eating yesterday so thats a good sign, pics coming later today. Tom and Musky Sleeping Of
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Frankie is not so smart when it comes to weather. But Frankie is also pretty smart about the weather. I can't decide. He has me completely bamboozled.
Every year for the last four years we have opened our doors for a party the day before the Daytona Reptile Show. Turtles, food, fun, and more turtles. This year was our best year for attendance with 23 guests. Lots of fun. Hopefully even more can make it. LisaD, we missed you :wub: We plan on doing it next year the Thursday before the show as...
The summer after Blackberry came to stay with me, another interesting resident came into my care. One morning an adult female eastern box turtle was found left anonymously in the overnight drop-box at the wildlife center where I worked at the time. She had no obvious injuries aside from the fact that she was missing one of her front legs. The...
Ed loves eating. And I don't mean just eating. When I drop a pile of food on the floor for her she consumes it and walks around looking for more in a bored sort of what-else-is-there-to-do way. That's not the kind of eating I'm talking about. I am talking about the kind she does outside after she is warmed up to about 100 degrees from...
Today was the first day that Emys took food from my hand. I never would have expected that a white mushroom would be the food that would tempt him enough to eat from my hand. I guess that's my personal bias. I just don't go for mushrooms myself. But apparently Emys does :) The mushrooms were bought in a supermarket, not collected out...
Yesterday, our oldest cat pushes open the wedged-shut door and comes into the zen room while I am down on the floor reading and Scutes is soaking in her big turtle dish. Morphie strolls straight to the big sun-spot on the carpet, completely oblivious to the turtle, so I decide to allow him to stay, as long as he behaves himself. Scutes notes the...
So today i got my very 1st tortoise. His name is Andante. Andante is an old musical term meaning "in moderately slow time", which frankly couldn't be much more perfect. Andante is a baby red-foot. He's about the darn cutest thing ever.
HELLO ALL,IM NEW TO THIS FORUM, I WILL TRY TO KEEP UP WITH IT AND UPDATE IT OFTEN. I HAVE A MALE GREEK TORT AND A FEMALE GOLDEN GREEK. THEY ARE BOTH ABOUT 4 YRS OLD AND THEY'RE GREAT. I CURRENT;Y HAVE THEM IN A 24" X 24" GLASS TERRARIUM, WHICH WAS GREAT WHEN I JUST HAD ME MALE BOUT NOW WITH THE PAIR I FEEL ITS TOO SMALL. SO AS OF...
Here they are. Shell is only 1.5 inches at the mo on both. Cant wait for them to grow (my brothers is a 5inch male and is cool).
Well, we made our adoption choice. A bit different than we'd initially anticipated. 
Since the first people to see him are all of you guys here on TT (which is funny because my daughter calls herself TT) :P I've decided to name him after my handle, Scute Carapace.
Looks like hes been on his dock sleeping from 5PM yesterday! And he still going lol! Well he looks healthy and i noticed he pooped shortly after eating yesterday so thats a good sign, pics coming later today.
