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This Week’s Highlights

keeping green sea turtle as pets
January 12, 2019   •   49 posts   •   535 views
Sea turtles

Mohsin khan said — i live in pakistan and here grean sea turtle new hatchling aare being sold in pet shops and i have bought two of them i know its illegal but i sure want to save them so i need ...

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Redfoot care sheet draft(PLEASE CRITIQUE!)
January 10, 2019   •   40 posts   •   636 views
Redfoot and yellowfoot tortoises

TechnoCheese said — DISCLAIMER: I do not keep redfoots, and I only have one tortoise in total. With this in mind, remember that I am in no way an expert, and this should not be used as cold hard proof ...

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A Critique of the Redfoot Care Sheet
January 08, 2019   •   60 posts   •   1,125 views
Redfoot and yellowfoot tortoises

cdmay said — In the following I will attempt to review and critique the Redfoot Care Sheet that is published on this Forum by Redfoot NERD. I will say at the outset that I feel Mr. Kilgore ...

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The Feral Kid
January 11, 2019   •   22 posts   •   397 views
Redfoot and yellowfoot tortoises

cdmay said — Some months ago a neighbor of mine called me to report that another neighbor had found one of my missing tortoises. "Oh yeah, its exactly like your other ones, just smaller. But ...

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Beak won’t open?
January 14, 2019   •   26 posts   •   296 views
Tortoise Health

jackielhogan said — Hi! I am new to tortoise care-taking and I'm very worried. My new guy/girl hasn't eaten since I received him as a Christmas gift. I initially thought it was just the stress of ...

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Sulcata Bladder Stone Surgery
January 10, 2019   •   106 posts   •   1,564 views
Sulcata tortoises

DozerCooley said — Just got the update call: Everything went as smoothly as possible and the stone is finally removed! They ended up having to cut an entire piece of her shell out to remove the stone ...

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Redfoot care sheet via Northeast North America
January 12, 2019   •   21 posts   •   337 views
Redfoot and yellowfoot tortoises

Redstrike said — @cdmay @Madkins007 @CharlieM @allegraf @kathyth @Yvonne G @Redfoot NERD @Will @Tom @Markw84 @TechnoCheese All, Please find and critique this draft care sheet. I have included a ...

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My tortoise is an idiot...
January 09, 2019   •   24 posts   •   401 views
General Tortoise Discussion

tortoisekev said — I've posted a couple of times recently about how much my tortoise seems to want to climb over or up everything - his pot, the plants, even up the walls. It doesn't appear to be ...

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Arizona Sulcata Hatchlings!
January 11, 2019   •   21 posts   •   329 views
Sulcata tortoises

Tortlex said — Hello all, I'd like to share my experience with incubating a clutch of rescued sulcata eggs from my mother-in-law's ranch in Tucson this past summer 2018... My mother-in-law has ...

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Instinct or being a brat.
January 10, 2019   •   15 posts   •   232 views
General Tortoise Discussion

Ray--Opo said — Ok everyone about 2 weeks ago Opo started flipping substrate in the feeding dish. Like the other day I gave Opo some collard greens that were mature. Knowing Opo probably wouldn't ...

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