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One of my friends asked me to ID these torts for him. I know they are not his and not sure where he came across the photo. However I still insisted on telling him to never house torts on pellets as in the photo :) The best ID I can come up with is a Bowsprit tortoise (chersina angulata)...

With a new enclosure comes new toys. I'm currently in the process of making Juno(greek) a waterfall/soaking feature in her enclosure. Plan on this thread being a breakdown of the progress. Started with a piece of 2" extruded insulation foam. Cut it in to rectangular pieces so when stacked...

I having an issue with.my newly built enclosure. I originally built it with screens in the windows as the.picture shows, but about 3 weeks in my cats started to jump on the screens and break them out. Luckily I built it with this in mind and had a quick fix to insert plexi-glass. Now that the...

Juno (5" greek) has been continuing to grow and has out grown her current enclosure (a 2x3 bookcase turned on it's back). With the move to the new apartment comes a new home for Juno!! Here are some pics of the project. The end product will be a 70.5"x40"x60" piece of funiture for displaying...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4754996 Saw this on.facebook n figured its worth sharing Sent from my LG-VM696 using TortForum mobile app

Its been about a week now that Juno (golden greek) has had a bubbly nose. She is still eating and has regular bowel movements. I raised her table temps and lowered the humidity to try combating the illness (Temps are 80-85F day and night and humidity 40). I've read that it takes torts a long...

Tort care seems to be 2 step forward and one step back. Last week Juno was showing 1/8" growth lines on a 4" shell and this week she seems to have developed a little cold. To remedy the snot bubbles Im lowering the humidity (twice a week i clean and water her substrate. Skipping the watering)...

Hi, sorry I'm a greek tort owner and am thinking maybe at some point ill add a redfoot to my collection... from my understanding all cherryheads are redfoots but not all redfoots are.cherryheads? The red head is just a gene passed down from a certain location? Thank you to those who help clear...

In the last week or so my greek has developed light lines between the scutes... guessing this is new rapid new growth before it has changed to match the rest of her shell? She is just at 4in now... not sure of wieght... don't have an accurate enough scale [hr] Happy to see I can upload pics...

Here are some pics of the typical day to day interaction of Juno(tort), Willow & Echo(cats). Willow(closest) and Echo checking out bath time Willow being nosey again... was nibbling on Juno's leaves until he heard the camera! Juno's new food supply about 5 days in Echo using...

I keep reading that cactus pads are a good food source, but I alsocant recall anyone saying this for greeks specifically... just wondering if it would be fine to feed these to my golden greek and how would one prepare them?

Now that we've had Juno for about 3 weeks, I've started to notice that the outter rim of her shell has an almost see thru border similar to a finger nail... Wondering if this is just new growth around the outside or some bigger issue. She seems to be acting normal. Her diet consist of a...

Getting frustrated with Juno's food spoiling in the fridge, I've decided to try my hand at growing some mixed greens. I have a brick of eco-earth coconut coir left over and am just wondering if that would work for a growing medium. Also growing some forget-me-nots that I'm going to trans plant...

I am posting on behalf of my boyfriend who has been previously posting about our new greek tortoise Juno. We have had her for a few weeks now and can't help but notice that all she really does is sleep, eat, sit under her heat lamp, and then repeat. She sleeps probably a good 20 hours of the day...

My gf and I recently bought Juno from a pet store. She was sold to us as a greek tortoise... we were thinking she may be a golden greek. Here are some pics!

Hi all, my girlfriend and I just bought Juno today. Was curious as to what people thought the sub-spieces of greek she is. We are leaning toward golden. I'm also attaching some photos of her pen we put together out of an old bookcase. Looking forward to some input of ways to improve her new...