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Sooo a couple years back I was highly active on the tortoise forum threads. I posted often, and still do have an average understanding of a little bit of everything in the tortoise world.
I had a paradalis babcocki, who I received from a breeder as a baby, and grew him out of infancy. Some of you may remember multiple growth threads in relation to him as well as enclosure advice and tutorials I posted.
During this time I was in college (not living in a dorm, but living in a house) and my leo “Simon” lived with me. All was great, he was growing weekly by at least a gram or two, I was very specific in his feeding regimen, took great care on daily soaks, etc.
Shortly after a lot of my posting on here (probably at my peak activity on the forum), Simon started to decline rapidly, losing weight, loss of appetite, lethargic. Upon taking him to the only vet available, she could not diagnose any direct problems with him and we tossed around what could have been causing it. Long sorry short, he died within 2 weeks of him ahowing signs, and I really thought I was in the clear with getting him out of the baby stage, but I guess I was wrong.
Instead of seeking advice from the community, I felt betrayed by the tortoises and basically threw my stuff in the basement and gave up until I graduated college. I was angry and frustrated and wasnt sure if I would want to come back to owning another leopard (always has been my favorite species), and maybe just stick to my redfoot for the time being.
I graduated last may, have been working, looking to buy a place of my own, and kicked up the idea of owning another leopard, only this time NOT getting a baby.
Im happy to be back and second time is hopefully the charm here!
My main question is (and I am in no rush and willing to wait) does anyone know of any breeders of paradalis paradalis (Giant Leopard Tortoises as some people call them). After some recent and extensive research, I have decided on owning a gpp instead of a gbp because we all know bigger is better! (Just kidding *kind of*)
Anyways sorry for such a long post but it is good to be back and any help in finding a reliable gpp breeder (preferably no hybrids) would be great! Thanks guys!!
I had a paradalis babcocki, who I received from a breeder as a baby, and grew him out of infancy. Some of you may remember multiple growth threads in relation to him as well as enclosure advice and tutorials I posted.
During this time I was in college (not living in a dorm, but living in a house) and my leo “Simon” lived with me. All was great, he was growing weekly by at least a gram or two, I was very specific in his feeding regimen, took great care on daily soaks, etc.
Shortly after a lot of my posting on here (probably at my peak activity on the forum), Simon started to decline rapidly, losing weight, loss of appetite, lethargic. Upon taking him to the only vet available, she could not diagnose any direct problems with him and we tossed around what could have been causing it. Long sorry short, he died within 2 weeks of him ahowing signs, and I really thought I was in the clear with getting him out of the baby stage, but I guess I was wrong.
Instead of seeking advice from the community, I felt betrayed by the tortoises and basically threw my stuff in the basement and gave up until I graduated college. I was angry and frustrated and wasnt sure if I would want to come back to owning another leopard (always has been my favorite species), and maybe just stick to my redfoot for the time being.
I graduated last may, have been working, looking to buy a place of my own, and kicked up the idea of owning another leopard, only this time NOT getting a baby.
Im happy to be back and second time is hopefully the charm here!
My main question is (and I am in no rush and willing to wait) does anyone know of any breeders of paradalis paradalis (Giant Leopard Tortoises as some people call them). After some recent and extensive research, I have decided on owning a gpp instead of a gbp because we all know bigger is better! (Just kidding *kind of*)
Anyways sorry for such a long post but it is good to be back and any help in finding a reliable gpp breeder (preferably no hybrids) would be great! Thanks guys!!