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RE: Urgent help required!!! nah it's cool... and it's how i'm feeling about Wispa at the minute... just as long as I don't lose my hair as well :D [hr] you've changed it lol... cute tort tho... what type is it?

RE: Urgent help required!!! Yeah hopefully I won't end up looking like your profile pic thru worry bout Wispa lol

RE: Urgent help required!!! Cool thank you so much for your help .. i'll get some ready just in case i can't get Wispa to eat properly this weekend :)

RE: Urgent help required!!! No they're not hatchlings... do you recommend any particular type or flavour of baby food? presumably a vegetable based one?

RE: Urgent help required!!! Yeah i've been monitoring them while they are eating and no bullying been going on but i did feed them seperately this morning anyway so i could monitor Wispa closely. She actually soaks herself throughout the day as well I've noticed, living in Cyprus the water in...

Very concerned about one of my new leopard tortoises!! :( It (Wispa) seems to be drinking a lot of water but not eating much. We brought it home at the beginning of this week and, after giving her chance to settle down a bit, we weighed her this morning and it is only weighing 80 grams compared...

hi all... just to update on my last diet question on getting both my mediterranean spur thigh and greek over on to a healthy diet, I have succeeded a lot easier and quicker than I thought I would and a big thank you to everyone who gave invaluable advice. I now have bought 2 leopard tortoises...

Well he has emailed her to ask her to advise him who the shipping company is so that he can check that out and confirm they are one and the same when the shipping company contacts him to take the payment. All he has provided to the seller is his address for the delivery and nothing else. No...

Where it says "we were aware you can't actually ship countries between different countries" it should have said ship tortoises between different countries :D very early in the morning and I hadn't had caffeine by then :D

This is on behalf of a friend of ours who he thinks and I also think may be about to be scammed... Can you ship tortoises between different countries? Our friend is after getting 4 leopard tortoises to add to his stock of tortoises but in the classified ad he saw them in, the sellers ad said...

Hmmm thanks Yvonne, I was wondering about the over-heating as I mentioned in my initial message about this. And the ants are a worry too as we do get a lot of sun, heat and ants in this country over summer. Soooo maybe I leave this treatment just to do over winter when it is a lot cooler and a...

I've actually just bought some shell treatment today which is also supposed to be good for pest control so the leaflet says :)

Thanks for that ... just had a quick look at the rest of the site. Loads more useful info on there :)

This is a really stupid question brought up by a discussion I had with a friend about her mums tortoise as she used to do this... Is it ok to rub olive oil in to a tortoises shell to make it shine? I would say it's not necessary and I can only imagine that, especially in Cyprus where we and our...

Hi Lynne... Once more thanks for the good advice. Yes they do live outside over here though they will probably be brought in for the occasions when it does rain over winter (God forbid they should drown.. and when it rains over here it pours so the ground doesn't always get chance to soak it up...

Thanks for the advice Tom, the title of that thread did include Greek tortoises which is what one of them is so we have been advised but being a newbie to tort keeping any advice to give my much loved tortoises good care is gratefully received :D

Thanks Tom... I'll give this a go when I feed them tomorrow... they only had peaches for the first time today after finding out what they can and can't have on that "Food for desert dwelling type of Tortoises - Desert Tortoises, Marginated, Greeks, Russians, Sulcatas, etc" thread and thought I'd...

Sorry only just seen these replies... forgot to subscribe to it so didn't get email notification of any replies. Not sure what she was kept on when she was at my friends but she is now kept on a substrate of top soil and playpit sand. I will try to get a shot of her back legs and a clearer one...

Thank you for your advice there. I'll give the second option a go first I think and then if that fails, try the starving them for a few days option

Having had our tortoises thrust on us quite recently, gratefully might I add as I always wanted tortoises, by 2 of my partners colleagues who had to return to the UK for work quickly, they were on a basic diet of lettuce, tomato and cucumber with some added supplements such as calcium and high...