I have four 5 year olds in Oakland, California, which I’ve had since they were approximately a couple of months old. They are three males and one female. Their genders became clear in the last year. All 3 males have ‘shown’.
Obviously they’re not breeding and I’m a keeper not a breeder. Mine...
Looks like a female to me. I’m not as expert by a long shot as others on this forum, but I have 4 radiateds, similar age. My 3 males all have long fat tales. They’ve also all ‘flashed’ so their sex is certain. All 3 have a definite ridge towards the posterior of their plastrons in addition to...
As there currently is no hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland can’t you just drive across? This is of course too obvious, so there must be some scrutiny that I’m not aware of.
I have 3 male Radiateds and one female. I’m thinking that I need to sell 2 of the males as due to chaos in life I haven’t been able increase their housing as I should have in the past year.
They are very smooth and attractive rads in any case. They are 12”, 11” and 10”, but only 4 1/2 years...
I have two males with split scutes. At the moment, of my four radiateds, I have two males, they have both ‘showed.’ They both have minor scute deformities. They are also the biggest of my rads.
The other two radiateds appear to be females. All four are roughly the same age. But I’m waiting to...
I may well be wrong, but I don’t appreciate any real pyramiding in those Galapagos torts. Some torts are lumpier than others. Once more, I may be wrong, but pyramiding is much more distinct, I believe.
Amongst my torts, stars and radiateds, the somewhat pyramided ones, all stars, which...
I've had 4 radiateds together for the past 2 1/2 years since they were a couple of months old. They've all done very well. Grown nicely.
They are not 'friends,' however, and generally ignore each other. They all eat together and there doesn't seem to be any issues at present. I do plan...
Stars can definitely have dominance issues. I have one large adult female who is dominant to the 4 males she is in a pen with. She doesn't take any grief and when she is hungry, watch out if you're in the way. She just walks over the smaller males.
I have a subadult female housed separately...
Even if it were a desert tortoise, which it is not, they don't live in San Diego naturally and so there are regulations governing both keeping desert tortoises and releasing them.
Humans being humans, tinkering and mixing species will occur. If the species are not endangered and the progeny are not released into the wild, I guess I'd not be upset. But most turtle and tortoise species are endangered and some that aren't will be in the future, so interbreeding them is just...
They are often fine in groups, but do watch out for females getting harassed by even fairly young males. A few months ago I had to separate a young female from some young males. She had been the dominant tortoise in the group, but she is not mature and suddenly all the males were mounting her...
Shocking to see the carnage. The people of Madagascar need a lot of help to overcome their problems and that will be ultimately the only way to stem this slaughter.