Does anyone remember the caramel albino that hatched back in 2009? Well it's ended up here with me. Here are some recent pictures of it. I'm aware that it has severe pyramiding but it is a very healthy tortoise otherwise.
I have a hypo redfoot. The father of this hypo is albino (with red eyes) and the mother is hypo (with normal eyes.) It has some albino siblings (with red eyes) and some hypo siblings (with normal eyes.) If albinism and hypomelanism are both recessive genes and deemed to be different to each...
This sulcata hatched this morning and unfortunately it has no eyes and quite a severe over bite. Other than this, everything else about the tortoise is perfect and it is nice and lively.
Just thought I would share this experience.
I'm not sure if this something that has been covered but if a male tortoise has successfully fertilised a females eggs and produced offspring, the female can produce fertile eggs for years without seeing that male again. So if a second male was to mate with the same female, would the offspring...
I'm not sure if there is a topic on this but I have recently had some issues trying to import some red foots into the UK from the States. But then had no issues what so ever importing from Germany.
Has anyone had any experience with this and does anyone know exactly what paper work or documents...
I'm struggling to understand this so if anyone could enlighten me that would be great.
I have a hypo het albino redfoot.
From what I understand, "hypo" has co-dominant alleles and albinism is recessive. So with my redfoot, is the albinism still recessive? Or can it become dominant?
What would...
What is the youngest anyone's Indian star has produced eggs?
I have a male and a female approx 4 and a half years old and they've started to procreate. I didn't know if it was possible for anything to come of it?
I would appreciate anyone's thoughts.
My Name is James, I live near Portsmouth in the UK.
I have 2 Indian stars, 6 spur thighs and 8 Hermanns.
4 females producing babies each year ( Hermanns and spur thighs )[/font]