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Hello everyone, Since moving into an appartment, I will not be able to provide the space my babies will need, long term. They are perfect in every way, nearly 8" long, and have been in my care since April, 2010. I am asking $1,100 plus shipping, for the pair, obo. Pictures are available by...

It has been a looooong time since I have posted. I moved to a new duplex and had to give up my tortoise garden, but not my tortoises! They are happy, healthy, growing like weeds, and the hungriest creatures I have ever known. They are about 2.5 yrs old and half been with me , what will be 2...

I am wondering what the advice might be regarding my male Manouria. His conjuctiva are swollen and there is some white build up in the corner of one eye. I am not concerned that it is anything aside from complications due to lower humidity and having central heat. He sees fine and the eyeball...

I invite comment from those more experienced than myself, regarding supplementing with calcium,D3, and vitamins. Please refer to the thread under Debateable Topics, titled How much is too much calcium?, to see my current regime' and add your input to that thread. If you don't supplement at all...

I have a pair of ornate uromastyx and while researching them, I came across inofrmation about the product by Repashy called Veggie dust. It is much like TNT, but has a fruity (like bananas) smell, that would be particularly attractive to forest dwelling torts. I am using mine with TNT and keep...

I just about threw my hands up and decided that tortoises, in the wild, eat only air. It seemed logical, after finding a list of edible plants only to find another list that condemns the plant as too high in oxalates, saponins, tannins, goitrogens, hallucinagens, or what ever else. I have...

I have read all that I can find regarding keepers accounts of what they feed and also what few wild studies have concluded about Manouria diets in the wild. Wild many keepers choose to feed thier Manouria animal protein, studies of adults have revealed that they do not consume any appreciable...

I know tht Vic Morgan, Burmese Blacks were raised outdoors in FL, and it gets hot there, but we are getting lots of heat and I am wondering what they can endure, without stress. I currently keep them indoors, except when supervised, b/c I am waiting to finish the outdoor enclosure anyway, but...

I know many members with climate extremes are forced to feed store-bought fare to thier torts, but I want to avoid this as much as possible. Does anyone have experience or know which edible weeds and plants can be frozed and thawed for torts to eat later, without turning to mush? I have TONS of...

I may not put them out this year and there is a lot of growing left to be done, before it is shady enough for them to be protected from the heat. I have reinforced the chain link with gray, plastic mesh and used landscape timbers around the perimeter, but blocks will be going around the outside...

I am just about done the tortoise paddock!!! I have been working feverishly; preparing the soil, pruning bushes and trees, removing refuse, digging out old stumps and chunks of concrete, enstalling plastic chicken wire over the chain link and securing the inner perimeter with lanscaping ties...

Here are a few shots of my little angels pigging out on their ''chocolate'', which is grated butternut squash. They also have in that bowl dandelion leaves, blackberries, blackberry leaves, small amount of kale, bit of collards, white mulberry, dead nettle, milk thistle, and wild rose. I sit...

I am posting this here, b/c I know that some keepers don't supplement, some do, and some use different amounts on different schedules, so I imagine ther would be some opposing answers. I have, thus far, not supplemented my Manouria emys phayrei and they are about a year old. Ihave only had...

My little ones have been eating a steady diet of field greens, with some turnip greens added here and there. The last couple of days I sliced up 2 large blackberries and mixed it witht he greens, expecting to find none left. Suprisingly they left some behind. Today I added a bit of grated...

Neither tort has eaten yet. I am sure they are settleing in and it hasn't helped that I meddled in the enclosure with putting in a hide and such, but even after misting, the seem uninterested. I have them heated with an infared heater to about 83F on one side of the enclosure, no other heat. I...

I got my Manouria emys phayrei, from Vic Morgan today, after months of dreaming and anticipation. They are sooooo neat! I can already see so much in them, from the way they communicate to one another with pulsing limb and head movements, the way they pulse those necks, when they are content, the...

http://stores.ebay.com/WELCOME-TO-TORTS-N-ALLSORTS check out the variety of good edibles they have! I would not feed honeysuckle to torts though and that is in some of the mixes.

Well, it is here...March...the month I was hoping to be able to ship my pair of Vic Morgan burmese blacks. I am waiting for warmer weather...the temps are in the 30sF here and while Vic is reasurring, I see no reason to risk discomfort or death through impatience. I bought a large green tote...

I have created a yahoo group for Manouria enthusiast, b/c I really want to be involved with active discussions about these tortoises and attract a larger and more wide rangeing group of people. Please consider joining and introducing yourself and contacting anyone you might know that would be a...

Yvonne, I read in your previous post that Manouria eat colocasia as a regular part of the diet in the wild. Can you provide me a link or source for that information? I am not skeptical, just want to research it, so I can make a decision about providing this as a part of the diet or consider a...