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I'd recommend this article to anyone who has an interest in diet and pyramiding: https://moh-it.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/assessment-of-dual-energy-x-ray-absorptiometry-for-use-in-evaluat Both group 1 and group 3 were fed naturally growing vegetation, but group 1 was housed in an...

Tom, may I get the permission to translate your post "2015 Growth Experiment" into Chinese and post the article with the pictures on my website www.paludarium.net ? Thank you.

Hi all, for your reference: http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/301.full Erich

Hi, Tom. May I get the permission to translate your post "Hatchling Failure Syndrome" into Chinese and post it on my website www.paludarium.net? Thanks.

Hi all, sorry to dig this up. I was the guy who translated Tom's posts/articles into Chinese. Because I thought Tom's experiments were very helpful, I asked Tom for the permission for the Chinese translation almost one year ago via PM, and Tom agreed that I might use both his articles and...

While human needs are satisfied by 45 minutes exposure to the sun a week, reptile veterinarian and researcher Dr. Alison Alberts states that 30 minutes exposure to the sun a day is sufficient for green iguanas. What about the tortoises? I don't know. But in 1994 Charles Innis already pointed out...

The leopard tortoise inhabits dry semi-deserts with only 100 mm annual rainfall, thorny scrublands, to rainy areas with 1400 mm, from flat plains at sea level to altitudes of nearly 3,000 meters. They seem to be quite versatile in its selection of preferred habitat and are not picky in terms of...

The paper by Weisner and Iben was neither a field research nor a retrospective review, it was indeed a prospective study or a controlled trial. I agreed with Dr. Sue Donahue that further work is needed to replicate these results, determine mineral balance (acid-base balance) under dry and humid...

In his book Tortoises (Complete Herp Care) E.J. Pirog also points out that "many experienced keepers suggest limiting protein by feeding a high-fiber/low-protein diet. Inexperienced keepers who follow this advice commenly end up with a malformed tortoises or a tortoise that is not growing...

I don't think the following researches supported the concept that tortoises must be restricted to high-fiber diets. In the study Body Size Development of Captive and Free-Ranging Leopard Tortoises (Geochelone pardalis), the leopard tortoises were kept in enclosures with a natural vegetation of...

Field researches provided us important information and facts, but due to interoberver and intraoberver variations, those facts were not always truths. Wegehaupt's website http://www.testudo-farm.de/html/habitatsklima.html also recorded some informations about the climate in a habitat of...

Here are 2 prospective studies that began with the hatchlings or neonate for a few years. Growth and body composition in captive Testudo graeca terrestris fed with a high-energy diet. The diet in the study was exclusively composed from a commercial canned, vitamin-enriched cat food(Tuffy’s...

The study tried to compare growth rates in captive and wild tortoises, however it did not show adverse outcome of the fast growing captive individuals. To my surprise, the 3 sulcata tortoises ate animal matters when they were young. Because the authors reported that in their first years of...

A good research to read: Thermal utility of desert vegetation for the Egyptian tortoise and its conservation implications I hope this might help. Erich

Unless we raise the star tortoise babies with closed chambers by Tom's method, it's very hard for us to come to conclusion. Erich

Exactly. Many keepers raise their star tortoises in the dry pens, as a result star tortoises are vulnerable to bladder stones and pyramiding. We eventually see the real habitat of the star tortoises in Sri Lanka, and now we know that the climate out there is hot and humid in certain seasons...

I apologize if this has been posted before, but obviously this habitat of the star tortoises was moist not arid. http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/other/videos/wild-recon-a-star-tortoise.htm

Well, the Burmese stars have been bred in the farms and been sold to the tortoises keepers/freaks for a long time. I don't believe that uplisting from Appendix II to Appendix I will stop trading Burmese stars, at least in Asia. But the costs for Burmese stars are expected to be more expensive in...

Is there also a humid hide inside the enclosure?