Yours is a beauty for sure.
I have in the same clutches torts with cherry head plastron and also with a nothern plastron, that and the size from the parents makes me sure that they are not 100% cherry head.
The parents from the marbelt are the same as from the albino.
This year I only breed...
Thanks, I'm sure there must be cherry head blood in them.
The parents are cb but to large for a cherry head, about 5 to 6 KG.
Can you post a picture from the plastron of yours?
Are you sure there is not a litle Cherry head gen in you adult red foots?
I have also two aduts whos hatchling marbeling, but I think there is l litle cherry head blood
in them.
I hope I will think off it and take some pictures this weekend, otherwise rmember me>.
The article is from 2006, by a German : Hans-Jurgen Bidmon, and a
American : Ralph Hoekstra.
The magazine has a good name, but I agree I beleef it when I see it, but still interesting for me.
I did take a picture from a picture in a magazine(sorry its not a good one my scan is not working), as you see these two platynota look realy different.
The author is also telling that the ones with the small lines are more morning and night active, and the ones with the wide lines are more day...
Thanks for the picture, yours look great, they are cb in the USA or from thailand?
I see two different types of stars in your group.
When you take the three below in the picture, the one in the middel has no spots where the stars start.
I did read there are 2 types, 1 with small lines and the...
Here the pictures.
This one lookes like yours, the lines are all conectet
And this one have spots between the lines.
I hope you now what I mean, its a bit difficult to explane in english
Here a picture from the 4
Sorry, I thought the post was not placet, so I did it a...
Here the 2 different shell pattern I talked about.
This one lookes like yours, the lines are all connectet
And this one have more spots between the lines.
I hope you understand how I mean it, its a bit difficult for me
to explane it in English
Here a picture from the 4
Very nice platynota you have, how many do you keep?
I'm very glad that I can agree its a great species, I did get my one 4
2 weeks ago, realy great.
Can you post pics from the shell, because mine look to have 2 different pattern, I will post them tomorrow.
Last month I did export 4 of my Red foots from the Netherlands to the USA.
The Cites was with the name Geochelone, the F&W did not exept that.
Now we need a new Cites with Chelonoidis on it.
Wouw, congratulations, the little one looks great.
I allready wonder what happend with this egg you told me about.
I hope it will do just fine, the first hatchling allways will be a special one.
Wiek I also try to contact you for some time, I think something is going wrong with my E-mails...
I now now its a male, I put him in some lukewarm water and he put
out his penis.
I hope he will date with a lot of females:):D
Here a few new pictures.