I had a very scary experience last night.
We were expecting a moderate storm surge due to a king tide coinciding with a very heavy storm (Gulf Coast of Florida), but the water rose much higher than anticipated; even higher than any of the hurricanes I've been through here. By sheer coincidence...
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For years I have had Brazilian Redfoots (Cherryheads) and I have never had issues with fungus. I have never added anything to the substrate of their pen: just the natural dirt/loamy sand of this island off the Gulf Coast of Florida. About mid-summer I decided to put cypress mulch in...
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This young Brazilian "Cherryhead" (3 years old? 4?) arrived recently, and I introduced it to my creep of 1 male/4 females (one of the females is 8 years old; the others are 5, and I have had the latter since they were hatchlings). As soon as I put the new one in the pen--sex is...
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Just got this one; purported to be 4 years old. Any thoughts as to the sex?
When I dropped it in with my creep of 5 year olds consisting of 1 male/4 females, the established male--who up to now has shown indifference to the females and keeps to himself--kind of freaked. out...
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I am trying to determine the sex of a 4-year-old Brazilian/Cherryhead. The tail looks female, but the anal scute looks male. The plastron is perfectly flat, though I frequently read that the male Cherryhead may show no concavity to it. Is this in fact correct? Can any actual owner of a...
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Has anyone experienced this?
My 4-yr-old Cherryhead--who appears to be the only male in my creep of 5--takes 30 seconds and sometimes longer to open his eyes when picked up and/or jostled in the mornings. They are outside year 'round here, where we're on an island off the Gulf Coast of...
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Are we certain that Ruellia Simplex/Purple Showers/Mexican Petunia is safe for the Redfoot...? My yard is filled with this (invasive) plant (that I wish I never got involved with) though as I always believed it to be toxic, I have kept my tortoises away from it...
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I'm still unsure on this one.
A friend of mine who lives on a large farm some 35 miles inland advises his herd of @50 RF and YF adult tortoises are never preyed upon by raccoons. Further, I notice that the Kamp Kenan guy leaves his various species of adult tortoises in open enclosures...
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I will start by saying I will abbreviate redfoot to RF, because otherwise spellcheck keeps changing it to REDCOAT...
I live in zone 10a on an island off the Gulf Coast of FL and I currently have my group of 4 juvenile (6" or so) RF/CH in a 10' x 4.5' enclosure (see photo). There is a...
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We have four Redfoots (one is a particularly stunning black Cherryhead) that are 3-4 years old, and they measure between 6 and 8 inches. I am curious to know what the sexes are, and while I try to glean info from the internet, I really cannot tell for sure...
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First-time poster; greetings.
I have four Redfoot Tortoises--one a Cherryhead variety--and they are nearly 2 years old. I'm in zone 10a on an island off the Gulf Coast of Florida. Last "winter" I kept them inside, but my idea now that they are bigger is to leave them in a 10' x 4'...