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$10000 for a Burmese black??!! I paid $300 for mine as a baby but now I wouldn't sell her for the world

No luck with my obsti this year but one of my flavo eggs produced twins. Both are healthy and fiesty...just what you'd expect from flavos

I do not claim to be a malacologist, but I know that snails possess a gland which produces calcium for their shells. That gland must have some nutritional value for turtles

This makes sense, especially since the only variable that changed was the amount of snails in the adult's diet. Thank you!

Well, it's taken me this long to shake off my disappointment-induced lethargy to write the final chapter on this most recent clutch which, no matter how one choses, was an unmitigated disaster from beginning to end; As I had previously written eleven eggs from my two females (six from one, five...

I am not overly optimistic about these recent clutches: eleven laid, eleven banded...two ended up exploding, three have mold that I am always wiping off and the rest are looking 'iffy'. Yesterday one pipped, I am keeping my fingers crossed for the remaining bunch.

Me too!

I just candled the eggs and all eleven are showing blood vessels

Happy Correction: All eleven eggs have banded!

A quick update: as of yesterday eight of the eleven eggs have banded. Fingers crossed for the remaining three

Both my obsti females decided today was a good to nest and they gifted me with eleven eggs: 5 from the smaller female, 6 from 'Big Mama'. All have been placed in Tupperware containers, resting on a bed of moistened sphagnum/vermiculite. Incubation is at 81F - 83F. And now the wait begins.....

Nice job! Beautiful turtles! Mine go crazy for snails; fortunately, I can gather them right off the tree beginning in early Spring here.

Something tells me you're not going to have a problem with this. If there's such a thing as reincarnation, I want to come back as one of your turtles!

A friend just sent these pictures of 'my' babies he got from me 3-4 years ago. Perfect, beautiful shells; I'd say he's doing a great job with them!

I should have written his name as 'R.D. Bartlett'

The above photos are courtesy of **** Bartlett...and TF won't let me write the name '****'. So the above photos are courtesy of Richard Bartlett, known to millions of herp enthusiasts as '****'

**** Bartlett just posted some pictures of the babies I sent him and the pictures are too good not to share. These babies are thriving under his and Patti's care. So glad I be be the 'missing link' in the chain that finally got **** his much sought after Pyxidea mohoutii obst!

January 2, 2021: I've uploaded a few pictures of the babies before they are sent out to their new homes. Look at the difference in size between these two guys: the smaller one is from the 'forgotten egg' that hatched three weeks later than his clutchmates. He eats like a tiger but so do they...

" All in one care sheet would be priceless and you have the knowledge. " omg...I think my head just exploded o_O

I just noticed that, since I began this thread, there have been 24,000 views (!). This species of box turtle must be more popular than I had imagined. I can understand why, but it's still more than I imagined. :p