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    Tortoise wandered into house... advice?

    The spiny turtle inhabits lowland and hill rainforest, usually in the vicinity of small streams, mainly in hill areas up to 900 m above sea level. Wikipedia Scientific name: Heosemys spinosa Higher classification: Heosemys http://www.asianturtlenetwork.org/field_guide/Heosemys_spinosa.htm
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    Tortoise wandered into house... advice?

    Your right "Spiny" rare turtle.
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    Possible herpes virus

    http://www.cabi.org/isc/FullTextPDF/2009/20093019002.pdf "With early detection and aggressive care, over 90% of tortoises recover with proper care at home. If there are other tortoises in the home, it is likely that they have already been exposed to the herpesvirus, or were themselves the...
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    Possible herpes virus

    The good news is bandit and jewel have a caring kind owner who will get them cured, don't give up hope. Possible reach out for another vet who specializes in exotic animals and experience with tortoises. If Squirt survived it I'm sure these will too. My only recommendation is you keep them warm...
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    Which tort species did you choose?

    Can't resist, a couple more pics of our baby Goldilocks hatched August 2016 Great color, no photo enhancements were made.
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    Tortoise wandered into house... advice?

    http://www.freshmarine.com/asian-wood-turtle.html The one on this website looks like the front scute has a slight flare to me.
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    Giant Asian water turtle care (Heosemys Grandis)

    Yours is a beautiful animal. If you can't find the original owner, and you don't you have space, time and money to properly care for the turtle, I would release it as soon as possible while it's still strong, find a suitable habitat outside the city away from people. Giant Asian pond turtle...
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    Tortoise wandered into house... advice?

    There are variations in nature, hopefully he will post more pictures to be sure but that's my opinion.
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    Tortoise wandered into house... advice?

    Yours is a beautiful animal. If you can't find the original owner, and you don't you have space, time and money to properly care for the turtle, I would release it as soon as possible while it's still strong, find a suitable habitat outside the city away from people. Giant Asian pond turtle...
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    Tortoise wandered into house... advice?

    Like I said earlier I think it's a Giant Asian Pond Turtle (Heosemys grandis) here is another example looks the same to me.
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    Tortoise wandered into house... advice?

    I think it's a Giant Asian Pond Turtle (Heosemys grandis) http://gctts.org/node/72
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    Is my torts beak good enough

    What kind of tortoise is that in the picture?
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    Goldilocks

    Goldilocks
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    Which tort species did you choose?

    What species do you have and how did you choose? I had young Leopards, young Burmese black mountains, young Indian Stars, young Burmese Stars, then sold them all for personal reasons, I live in Chicago suburbs so I have to keep them indoors much of the year so a large growing tortoise would be...
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    How to get my Hermann more active

    Try keeping 80F daytime temp even at the lowest side 80F, at night allow a cooling down time (just like in nature), it's good for them to cool down but during the day not less than 80F ambient temp for the whole enclosure. If your tortoise is younger you will want to try to have 90+ % humidity...
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    Tell me about your tort/help me decide if I should get one

    Also if you want to raise your baby to have a smooth shell carapace and not pyramid, your closed chamber enclosure will need to be kept 90% humidity yet the top layer of the 4" deep substrate kept dry or they can grow fungus that you will have to treat.
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    Tell me about your tort/help me decide if I should get one

    I'm in Illinois and like Michigan the weather its too cold, so most of the year the tortoise will need to be housed in and indoor closed chamber enclosure. So don't by a tortoise that will grow too large, that was my first mistake. I have and recommend colorful Western Hermanns tortoises, the...
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    Burmese star female excellent condition

    Have to sell my beautiful Burmese star tortoise, she is around 200 grams and 3.8". Raised in a warm humid closed enclosure for a amazing smooth perfect carapace and with a good varied diet. Her lines are a beautiful design and well defined, she's very healthy and one of a kind at $1500 shipped...
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