I never noticed before that one of my female Russians has some pretty hefty spurs. Much bigger than the other Russians. It made me wonder if she could be a Greek or maybe a hybrid. Here's a couple pics. Opninions?
I'm thinking female judging from the distance of the opening to the shell, males seem much farther to me, and the width of the base. Turtle is 3.75". To small? Opinions?
A couple months ago my leopard dug a nest and tried to lay, but nothing came out. Now, every couple days she's laying an egg wherever she happens to be. Often walking on and breaking them. The ones that weren't broken seem to have a very thick shell and are extremely hard. Do you think these...
Early last week I ordered a male and female southern painted turtle from Turtle Source. I received them quickly. But, what they sent was two males rather than the pair I requested. I wrote them explaining the problem. I offered to pay for the third turtle if they would cover shipping. IMO, a...
Ordered a 3-4" male / female pair of southern painted turtles from Turtle Source. They arrived yesterday.
Unfortunately they were both male. I'm trying to work something out to correct this issue. But, until then it's a nice looking couple of males
I'm starting to worry about my star tort, Ravi. When I bought him, from someone here on the forum, they told me he was a little over a year old. But, he still looked about hatchling size to me. I've had him for two months now, he eats well, (spring mix, catus, Mazouri, etc...) and gets sunlight...
I've never seen this before. My little musk turtle was upside down at the bottom of the pond this morning. He's alive but just kind of flopping around like he has no control. I suppose it could be brain damage from lack of oxygen for a while. But, just in case this is something anyone has heard...
Wow, just discovered one of my boxes came up from hibernation with one of the worst cases of shell rot I've ever seen. Almost all of the plastron is covered with it and most of the scutes are gone or a falling off. Treated it for the last couple days with the Iodine stuff and then rubbed in...
Decided to build a pond for my water turtles the other day. It's coming along pretty nicely. About 6 feet long, about 3 feet wide aroung 24 inches deep at the deep side and 12 inches on the shallow.
Can this really be anything but a female? Almost 11" totally flat plastron ans short tail. However, she mounts anything that moves, complete with the open mouth grunting noises. Don't see anything like a penis exposed when it happens though. Just showing dominance, possibly?
Weirdest thing yesterday. One of my female Russians had flipped on her back and couldn't flip herself back over. As I was walking over to flip her I saw the male headed her way. I thought he was going to bite at her, as he often does. Instead he went under her on the side and flipped her back...