This is the last of the leopard tortoise babies I raised, and my favorite. Has always been the biggest! She is 9.5" SCL and weighs a little over 2000g, with new growth showing at the seams. Going to be huge, her Mama is over 20" SCL.
Hatched Dec 2020, got her Jan 2021. I raised her in a closed...
I have several well-started CB2 (2nd gen captive bred!) 2023 Russian tortoise babies available.
I have raised these horsfields tortoises to 100g+ to ensure they are thriving. They are ready to ship, temperatures permitting.
Fed a varied diet of weeds and garden-grown tortoise-safe greens...
Not my posting. Someone in a FB group I'm in has found a hingeback (Kinyxis) in their yard.
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This beautiful 1.5 year old, 550g pure SPP leopard tortoise needs a new home. Known parents feom a reputable breeder.
I raised it from 1 week old, and it's smooth and perfect. It spent the first year in a closed chamber, high humidity habitat. Daily soaks, natural UV during warm season...
In an effort to simplify my life, I've decided to sell this well started, smooth, beautiful, extra dark mixed genetics leopard tortoise hatched by Byron Pitre. It's father is pure SPP, mother is SPB/SPP mix. Should be a pet, not a breeder, in the interest of keeping the gene pool orderly...
This little one is turning out to be SO dark! I love the coloring. Its neck has some amazing marbling on it, too.
I'm curious what it will look like fully grown. Whether it will continue dark, or end up with more light coming in?
19 months old, outside 24/7 since May this year. Before that, in a...
My little crew has had a good hatching year so far! 1 month old to 3 days here. 3 different clutches. All of them are CB2, second generation captive.
We left on a road trip for 17 days, and 2 more eggs hatched during that time. I had placed 3 more eggs in a separate bin on moist paper towels...
Phoebe is thriving outside! I moved her out there 24/7 in April from the closed chamber. She (ok, might be a he) is growing so much. I'm dreading winter, because she is used to roaming a whole big area outside that is more than twice the winter habitat.
I got her at 1 weeks old weighing 22g...
I have a beautiful, nearly 400g yearling+ leopard tortoise available.
I got it at 2 months old from a TX breeder who soaks their babies daily. I also soaked daily and have raised it in a high humidity closed chamber, fed on weeds and garden greens and grass. Good eater, friendly, used to...
One of my female Russian tortoises laid eggs today. Unfortunately, she broke one of them, but the yolk was still intact in the dirt.
I very carefully spooned it up and brought it inside, since I remember seeing a thread here about an external incubation in saran wrap. (Here...
With warm weather coming, I wanted to share what I do about shade. You need sone DEEP shade, medium deep shade, and speckled shade.
Ground temps can rise to 150°F here in the summer, which obviously isn't safe! I use 80% shade cloth (bought online - compare prices), one layer up high at a...
Pebble is getting so big. She is the granddaughter of my first tortoise. She turns 1 in June and is just shy of 200g.
Her coloring is really interesting, she was a very 'plain' baby with no speckling when she hatched, but is turning out to be quite the beauty!
She lives outside now full...
Since I took this photo to show one of our members how I do locking lids, I figure I'd post this so others can also see. :) Each of the habitats is 10ft x 10ft (I have a total of 4 for RTs, plus one for my junior leopards, and the area around them is inhabited by an adult leopard tortoise)...
One of my young CB Russian tortoise females who reached breeding weight last year laid a clutch of 8 itty bitty eggs this afternoon.
I was so surprised! I think she was, too. The final 2 eggs were barely covered, she must have run out of space.
The smallest egg is only 10g. Six of them are...
RT breeding season is off to a good start. Topaz laid these 5 eggs yesterday afternoon. I dug them up at dusk, didn't expect that many in one clutch!
Topaz is the daughter of my first tortoise and Jasper, the male, is also CB. These babies will be CB2.
I'm not selling any hatchlings, only...
Hydration squiggles! Do you see those little light colored squiggles? This is what a healthy, well hydrated baby's shell should look like.
How do you grow a baby with a beautiful shell?
- Daily soaking
- Misting shell every 2-3 hours with warm water
- Good weeds for food
- 30 mins of natural...
I'm officially a tortoise great Grandma. My first tortoise's daughter's egg hatched this weekend.
Timmy girl (Grandma) was my first ever tortoise. She was killed by a racoon 3.5 years ago.
Topaz (Mama) is an 8-year-old female who hatched from my first clutch ever. I didn't breed her until this...
I know that growing smooth leopards is the standard now... But I still wanted to post a photo of my 5 little beauties.
They range from 36g-143g.
Raising in closed chambers with high humidity, diet is all weeds and fresh snipped grasses. Daily soaks, misting several times a day.
Right now our yard and field and tortoise habitats are growing more tortoise food than my tortoises can eat. Thinking ahead for dry Summer months and cold winter months (during which my Russian tortoises are brumating in the fridge, but my leopard tortoises still need food!), I've picked a bunch...