Use to. Still have only males. All the females perished from poor previous care. Very unfortunateBeautiful! Such small tortoises, but loaded with personality.
Are you breeding these right now? If so, shoot me a PM, I’d love to chat.
Use to. Still have only males. All the females perished from poor previous care. Very unfortunate
Yep. They were both in renal failure. Salvaged the shells. Carapace on both specimens are paper thin. Very very sad. For such a difficult species to obtain they seem to be goners when I finally acquire them. All the captive ones I’ve found as young end up males too, go figure. Haha. However I have a couple colleagues down south. Should be hopeful to have a decent assurance breeding group imported in. Also working on Argentina subspecies of donorborossi as well. Those are most excellent and exciting. Will leave them outside year around since they winter over differently than Chilensis or Petersi.That sucks. I think I remember you mentioned losing the females a few years back, was hoping you had found another. Seems like a common situation, several other breeders have lost mature females for various reasons.
Yep. They were both in renal failure. Salvaged the shells. Carapace on both specimens are paper thin. Very very sad. For such a difficult species to obtain they seem to be goners when I finally acquire them. All the captive ones I’ve found as young end up males too, go figure. Haha. However I have a couple colleagues down south. Should be hopeful to have a decent assurance breeding group imported in. Also working on Argentina subspecies of donorborossi as well. Those are most excellent and exciting. Will leave them outside year around since they winter over differently than Chilensis or Petersi.
Yep. They were both in renal failure. Salvaged the shells. Carapace on both specimens are paper thin. Very very sad. For such a difficult species to obtain they seem to be goners when I finally acquire them. All the captive ones I’ve found as young end up males too, go figure. Haha. However I have a couple colleagues down south. Should be hopeful to have a decent assurance breeding group imported in. Also working on Argentina subspecies of donorborossi as well. Those are most excellent and exciting. Will leave them outside year around since they winter over differently than Chilensis or Petersi.
I was actually thinking about importation of Chacos today. I wondered why no one has imported a group, given their rarity in the US. I wouldn't think it would be impossible since they are only CITES II. And, since people are keeping them successfully these days as opposed to the large number that perished in the early days, the risk seems low.