Lao Market Species identification

mrscruffy

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Hi Forum,

I have been on the road in Laos and came across these shells. I can see Impressa, Elongated, Keeled and plastic frog! But what are the bottom two shells on the right?

Pity, I arrived too late for these torts.

Cheers
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The sort of radiated pattern on the scutes makes me think they're stripe necked leaf turtles Cyclemys tcheponensis.
Endangered species, oh dear, all those poor torts and turtles.
 

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We'll send a shout-out to @Will . He's pretty good at the Asian tortoises.
 

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I agree with Tidgy's Dad on those two, leaf turtles for sure Cyclemys, but I have no guess to the species. To me the frog looks like painted wood.

I think your right on both counts! Thanks.

Later I was at a market and they had a few live Impressa.
 

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Hi Danou,

Great, how long have you had her? How did you get her?

Hope she is doing well.

Cheers
Scruffy

Hi ! I saw they selling at the local market, and i bought here to save her from end up in the soup.
But i really glade i had her for around 3 months now.
She's healthy, doing great and eat a lot :)
 

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Hi ! I saw they selling at the local market, and i bought here to save her from end up in the soup.
But i really glade i had her for around 3 months now.
She's healthy, doing great and eat a lot :)

I would have a difficult time not buying all of the tortoises there.
 

mrscruffy

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Hi ! I saw they selling at the local market, and i bought here to save her from end up in the soup.
But i really glade i had her for around 3 months now.
She's healthy, doing great and eat a lot :)


You did the right thing, but now you have the responsbility of caring for her. How is that going? Have you got her setup?

Cheers
Scruff
 

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sadly one thing we must all come to grips with we cannot save them all you do the best you can for as many as you can and you have to live with yourself
 

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You did the right thing, but now you have the responsbility of caring for her. How is that going? Have you got her setup?

Cheers
Scruff
Yes i know that it would come with responsibility.
Now i have her set up and finally found a Male for now.
Now they living in pair and healthy.
 

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Danou

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Hi Danou,

Great, how long have you had her? How did you get her?

Hope she is doing well.

Cheers
Scruffy

Hi Scruffy,
She is doing fine and healthy.
And i collected some eggs, and i start to learn and research about it.
Finally, i did a incubator with the help from a reptile expert friend.
And we manage to hatch most of them ;-)
I really love them.
We manage to hatch 11 of them ;-).
Sound excited ? ;-)
Here are the newly hatch photos.
 

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Hi Scruffy,
She is doing fine and healthy.
And i collected some eggs, and i start to learn and research about it.
Finally, i did a incubator with the help from a reptile expert friend.
And we manage to hatch most of them ;-)
I really love them.
We manage to hatch 11 of them ;-).
Sound excited ? ;-)
Here are the newly hatch photos.
 

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I agree with Tidgy's Dad on those two, leaf turtles for sure Cyclemys, but I have no guess to the species. To me the frog looks like painted wood.
I love those frogs. You take the rod and run along the back, makes a frog sound. Things like that make me smile.
 
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