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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...

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...

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...

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...

I could do with some help identifying my new tort as well please... Joesmum advised this would be a more reliable way of identifying her than our local vet. As there is so many people on here with so much knowledge she is probably correct :)

Hi all... I would like to know at what age tortoises can begin to breed as my 2 are very young, possibly 18 months to 2 years old. As they are too young to tell the sex of them and as they are different sub-species, which I have found out on the internet can be very dangerous for sub-species to...

Hi everyone... my name is Nicola and I am a UK ex-pat living in Cyprus with my partner, Mark, 2 dogs Molly and Suzi, both rescue dogs from Cyprus, 2 cats Charlie and Django again rescued and my 2 lovely and quite young tortoises, Poppett and Snickers. Having wanted a tortoise since I was...