We have hatching

[Jacqui]

Ahhh "a plan"... so what is this plan?

 

[tortadise]

Ahhh "a plan"... so what is this plan?

A small chunk of enclosed jungle of warmth, humidity, and endless amounts of nutritious food. Been growing quite thebarrage of taro, alocasia, collocasia, oyster mushrooms, and Pothos. Of course will add some store greens too.

 

[tortdad]

I can "foster" one for you


0.0.1 Redfoot (Spike)
0.0.1 Cherryhead Redfoot (Bruce Wayne)
1.0 Sulcata (Hal Jordan)

 

[Elohi]

Those are so incredible!!! Nice work!!!'

 

[emysbreeder]

Correct. I also moved the tanks about 10 times because they were in the way of the remodel. So they went through some serious movement and absolutely no heat or cooling at all. We got a few cool snaps early on. They dropped as low as 71 for a combined week, and as high as 102 is what the thermometer read middle of the nest for a good while. All the windows and doors were open too. So basically end of spring beginning of summer ambient. Crazy huh? For sure will be getting a data logger for next year so I can see exactly what the temps dropped and rose. I added water only once to the substrate as it seemed a little dry on top about 3 weeks ago. But yesterday I found I didn't need too. Where the eggs were was quite moist but still dry.

 

[emysbreeder]

How many days of incubation to first pip? Vic

 

[tortadise]

73 was when I dug them up. One was almost tunneled out. Sacs are almost sucked up. So best guess at pipping would be 2-5 days prior. So that would be 68-71 days or so. Can't know exactly the first pip as they were already flattened busted out of the eggs when I dug them out.

 

[mike taylor]

Awesome! Kelly you going to keep them or sell them?

 

[tortadise]

Awesome! Kelly you going to keep them or sell them?

I may sell a few. But for now all will stay. I want to grow them up and see which sexes appear with this method since the temperature were so broad. Not to mention this is a new bloodline to offer to the US not related to anything. So knowing the sexes many years from now may help out others that cannot find opposing sexes for ones they already have. I'm also in contact with possibly sending some offspring over to Malaysia for reintroduction. We shall se about that though. Long road ahead.

 

[Abdulla6169]

I can "foster" one for you


0.0.1 Redfoot (Spike)
0.0.1 Cherryhead Redfoot (Bruce Wayne)
1.0 Sulcata (Hal Jordan)

I'll help with that. I always wanted RF!

 

[Flipper]

They are beautiful

 

[tortadise]

Day 3 they're sucking the sacs up more. Very little munching but some has taken place by a few that are almost sucked up.

 

[mike taylor]

I may sell a few. But for now all will stay. I want to grow them up and see which sexes appear with this method since the temperature were so broad. Not to mention this is a new bloodline to offer to the US not related to anything. So knowing the sexes many years from now may help out others that cannot find opposing sexes for ones they already have. I'm also in contact with possibly sending some offspring over to Malaysia for reintroduction. We shall se about that though. Long road ahead.

That is awesome to hear that some will be taken back to the wild . I would love to work on a program like that .

 

[tortadise]

That is awesome to hear that some will be taken back to the wild . I would love to work on a program like that .

Yes. I'm trying. Seems most conservationist don't understand why I would want to do that. Sure does show true colors of what they really think. Wouldn't be all the hatchlings year after year. After all one bloodline(for now) shouldn't be polluted in reintroduction programs anyways. But it's a start and every little bit helps.

 

[mike taylor]

Day 3 they're sucking the sacs up more. Very little munching but some has taken place by a few that are almost sucked up.View attachment 96288

Day 3 they're sucking the sacs up more. Very little munching but some has taken place by a few that are almost sucked up.View attachment 96288

The the color of the little guys make them look dead . But very beautiful .

 

[emysbreeder]

Yes. I'm trying. Seems most conservationist don't understand why I would want to do that. Sure does show true colors of what they really think. Wouldn't be all the hatchlings year after year. After all one bloodline(for now) shouldn't be polluted in reintroduction programs anyways. But it's a start and every little bit helps.

 

[mike taylor]

Yes. I'm trying. Seems most conservationist don't understand why I would want to do that. Sure does show true colors of what they really think. Wouldn't be all the hatchlings year after year. After all one bloodline(for now) shouldn't be polluted in reintroduction programs anyways. But it's a start and every little bit helps.

I agree totally . One small step makes great things happen . You can't please everybody . But one tortoise returned can save a beautiful species for the future.

 

[emysbreeder]

Tell us about the repatriation. I think we could all get into that. I dont know if anyone is doing that yet for Manouria, do you? I was asked for some emys emys to do that but they wanted me to head start them. So, getting free emys emys wasn't enough, I had to raise hundreds of them to three years old too. As you now know, it aint easy to reproduce them. He was going to place them in Singapore on protected water shed land . They have guarded land around big Hotels for Eco tourism . He is a well known Man that I respect with the vision of Trans World relocation of tortoises World wide in natural habitats that mimic that of the species range.*(the last tortoise. C. Stanford.). Keep on defying destiny my friend. Build more! Vic

 

[bouaboua]

WOW! ! ! WOW! ! ! WOW ! ! !!

Congratulations! ! ! I know this species are very hard to be CB. I have so many tortoise in China which they love this species but never had a success in egg laying regardless the hatchling.

Congrats, Congrats, Congrats, ! ! ! !

 

[Jacqui]

I love the way that last picture really shows the bottom of the cute little foot.