So this post is for anyone (hopefully long time breeders) to post up their stories.
Why did you get into tortoise keeping/ breeding?
How did you start, first tort? Species? Etc.
When did you chose to share your life with these fascinating creatures?
I'll go first , I'm not a breeder and have only about 7ys exp overall with tortoises.
4-5 with box turtles.
So I'll be 43 in December, back in the day (middle school age) a friend I had met in 3rd grade had box turtles, eastern I beleave the 1st one was. So that kinda when and how I got into it. So over those school yrs we collected a great number of turtles. All species and of course we didnt know the laws or best rule to keeping. We simply had a large pen build filled it with plants and they all lived happily ever after. Food and water. They basicly lived wild just in our back yard.
They actually breed, ground hatched etc. Was a great time. Then of cores we grew up and life changed and on with life we went.
Fast forward to my early 30s, walking threw traders village NW houston, we see a small pet shop and of course there is a little sulcata, later to be named Samson.
Brought back all the love I had from school days. So we bought him really not knowing what we got , did a lo of asking and searching , reading .
We thought be where doing it correctly back then, but we did not. We had him 7 yrs grew to about. 10-12" little pyramiding but not honorable.
Well we lost him one day got out of the yard. Was heartbreaking So we bought 2 more , built a nice big enclosure outside. Thought this would do well. Well 2 weeks later Samson was found , so we are at 3.
Long story short we lost all three. One disappeared, two passed over night. Still dont know why.
So it's been a few yrs and after doing better research , reading and trying to make my understanding of the information work, we are trying again with 2 leopards. . Atlas & Dexter.
Still learning so I'm always msg members and asking when I don't know or when I'm second guessing my thoughts.
So please if you feel so inclined share your story.
Why did you get into tortoise keeping/ breeding?
How did you start, first tort? Species? Etc.
When did you chose to share your life with these fascinating creatures?
I'll go first , I'm not a breeder and have only about 7ys exp overall with tortoises.
4-5 with box turtles.
So I'll be 43 in December, back in the day (middle school age) a friend I had met in 3rd grade had box turtles, eastern I beleave the 1st one was. So that kinda when and how I got into it. So over those school yrs we collected a great number of turtles. All species and of course we didnt know the laws or best rule to keeping. We simply had a large pen build filled it with plants and they all lived happily ever after. Food and water. They basicly lived wild just in our back yard.
They actually breed, ground hatched etc. Was a great time. Then of cores we grew up and life changed and on with life we went.
Fast forward to my early 30s, walking threw traders village NW houston, we see a small pet shop and of course there is a little sulcata, later to be named Samson.
Brought back all the love I had from school days. So we bought him really not knowing what we got , did a lo of asking and searching , reading .
We thought be where doing it correctly back then, but we did not. We had him 7 yrs grew to about. 10-12" little pyramiding but not honorable.
Well we lost him one day got out of the yard. Was heartbreaking So we bought 2 more , built a nice big enclosure outside. Thought this would do well. Well 2 weeks later Samson was found , so we are at 3.
Long story short we lost all three. One disappeared, two passed over night. Still dont know why.
So it's been a few yrs and after doing better research , reading and trying to make my understanding of the information work, we are trying again with 2 leopards. . Atlas & Dexter.
Still learning so I'm always msg members and asking when I don't know or when I'm second guessing my thoughts.
So please if you feel so inclined share your story.