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A Syrian Greek tortoise but it’s the normal color not the golden ones.

Hey just curious if David’s Jungle is a reputable breeder I’ve found him on morphmarket and it seems good. Just wanted a second opinion before purchasing. Thanks!

I was curious of my yearling stinkpot musk turtle gender. I tried to find forums and figure it out but I’m totally stumped on how to sex them. Any ideas on if mine is a male or female? Thanks!

Get a bigger heavier bowl. Then he can’t flip it or climb out of it. My tortoise did the same thing and I just got a bigger heavier glass bowl to adjust to him tipping it and escaping.

I’ll have mine inside the house with a heater. I don’t have a pond nor do I need one. I’ve read a lot about them and they should be fairly easy to raise hopefully. I told my mother and she said we actually had guppies when I was young and they ended up breeding LOL.

Yes I had no idea either, which is why when I decided (and realized) that, yes, he will eat fish that I should make sure he's eating the right fish! This forum was so so so helpful when I got my tortoise. I'm so glad there's a good community for water turtles as well!

Thank you so much! I saved the image, that's definitely helpful.

oh yes I bought him food pellets before I ever bought him fish! I just thought he was extremely shy (natural for stinkpots) and that fish may make him more confident and if he eats them, well it’s natural, just the way of life. But no I feed him pellets morning and night. Though last night he...

Well they’re called minnows at petco. Like 20 cents each, technically feeder fish for reptiles. The worker said they don’t usually live too long. One has been eaten, one was snapped at today while I was watching my turtle and the fish twitched oddly after. Not sure if it was hurt or scared; I...

Thanks so much! I looked onto it and I’ll be starting a guppy tank for my turtle. Appreciate the advice!

Thanks! Are the minnows bad for him after all?

Hello! I’m new to the turtle world (though not the tortoise world. I’ve had a tortoise for a year and a half just about and she’s fantastic) - so I decided to get a water turtle (next I’d love to get a box turtle but that’s later) anyway after my turtle came in (a common stinkpot musk turtle)...

If you wanted too, what I did for my tortoise who wouldn’t eat pellets, I got a blender and blended the pellets up! Then you just scoop them out if the blender and sprinkle it into their food. It’s so small and evenly chopped they can’t avoid it. Your boy might give you the stink eye like mine...

I checked on my tortoise when he was a hatchling every thirty minutes. I was even tempted to by a camera I could view on my phone. I was so panicked he’d flip over and I wouldn’t notice, so I get it! Thank goodness but he’s been alive for almost two years despite my panicking. Being my first...

Okay, breathe, for starters. I know what it’s like worrying over our shelled beloved pets but don’t freak; they’re super hardy. Second, my tortoise hated hated hated pellets too - so I bought different brands until I found the one he liked. Zilla Land and Tortoise food is what he’s on now and he...

I prefer to watch my Lumos instead of hold him. I pick him up occasionally, sometimes to bring him to the food dish when he’s sleeping (he isn’t sure if he wants to continue brumation or not) sometimes to soak him (hardly ever since he’s hit a year) or for enclosure maintenance (usually involves...

Have you tried a blender? This is how I cured my picky eater. You may need to give more pellet than blended greens at first but slowly adjust the ratio of pellets to greens until it’s where you want it. My guy wanted nothing but romaine lettuce until I started to blend it. It tasted like romaine...

Okay... so I have health issues and one of the symptoms of it is confusion. Therefore I decided to get a tortoise species that would be hardy enough for any bouts of confusion I suffered. I decided on a Golden Greek Tortoise which was slightly less hardy than the Ibera Greek tortoise. Picking...

I mainly have three concerns with cats and torts, the first is - a tort enclosure is a fantastic litter box for any kitten or cat that can climb into it, so make sure you have a lid! Even if you think the cat would never... he/she could. Second is just make sure the cords for the tort’s light is...

I don’t own a sulcata so I can’t say too much but I soaked my Golden Greek every two days when he was a baby for about 7 months to avoid dehydration in hatchlings (so not daily) I can only recall him pooping in his soaking bowl twice in that entire span. Perhaps it is more common for Sulcata to...