Probably a stupid question...

[Badgemash]

Wow this is actually a lot of good info, and now I feel less silly for asking. I think my main concern is that someone might steal one of them when they're bigger and living outside all the time. At least then I could prove ownership if one of them turned up somewhere.

-Devon

 

[Yvonne G]

Ok, so what about migrating? I've heard that sometimes a chip will migrate throughout the tortoise's body. Myth?

 

[APBT_Fanatic]

Ok, so what about migrating? I've heard that sometimes a chip will migrate throughout the tortoise's body. Myth?

I have heard this happening to dogs too.

 

[Tom]

Wow this is actually a lot of good info, and now I feel less silly for asking. I think my main concern is that someone might steal one of them when they're bigger and living outside all the time. At least then I could prove ownership if one of them turned up somewhere.

-Devon

Constant nightmare of every tortoise keeper. Its not that large pyramided sulcatas are expensive or hard to come by, its that I've spent over a decade of my young life caring for them.

 

[stells]

Alot of species in the UK are supposed to be chipped when they reach 10 cm... most prefer to wait until the tortoise is bigger... but if selling a tortoise requiring chipping... over that size they have to be chipped... if you breed from a tortoise that requires chipping you also need to get it done... if not you can't get paperwork and sell the hatchlings...

Those of mine that have been done have had the chips put in the rear leg...

 

[Terry Allan Hall]

Alot of species in the UK are supposed to be chipped when they reach 10 cm... most prefer to wait until the tortoise is bigger... but if selling a tortoise requiring chipping... over that size they have to be chipped... if you breed from a tortoise that requires chipping you also need to get it done... if not you can't get paperwork and sell the hatchlings...

Those of mine that have been done have had the chips put in the rear leg...

I was thinking that was the case, but wasn't sure of the exact details.

 

[Badgemash]

Wow this is actually a lot of good info, and now I feel less silly for asking. I think my main concern is that someone might steal one of them when they're bigger and living outside all the time. At least then I could prove ownership if one of them turned up somewhere.

-Devon

Constant nightmare of every tortoise keeper. Its not that large pyramided sulcatas are expensive or hard to come by, its that I've spent over a decade of my young life caring for them.

Exactly, these little guys are like my children, I still wake up in the night sometimes and check on them. I hate the thought of anything bad happening to them.

-Devon

 

[ALDABRAMAN]

I have never known anyone that had them chipped.