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thanks guys! these two fellas are from two different sources - hard to judge how they were kept before. i will monitor and keep you posted on this :) thanks again!

that sounds very good to me! i never noticed it before so i really can't tell, but that's simply because i never thought of squeezing their belly. last night one of them fell asleep on the food bowl and had some nasty dried in food on the belly, washing that off after the bath is how i...

they are kept indoors - we are in beijing and it's minus degrees here outside. they have sunlight lamps (powersun) and another UVB lamp, but they barely use the basking spot, they prefer to stay in their hides, which we try to keep damp, but it's generally rather dry here - i really wonder how...

wouldn't shell rot be visible on the shell surface? they don't look any different.

hi guys, i'd like to ask your expertise on this: i have two red foot torts - not sure how old, but when i measure their belly shell these are 6 cm and 6,5 cm. i just noticed today, that for both of them the belly shell is soft. the smaller one more than the larger one. this is the first...

yes, we dust their food with calcium / vitamin powder every other day. they both seem healthy in their behavior, active, they are not afraid of us or each other, i am really more concerned about their very fast and very slow growth speed (especially compared to one another). i would have...

she doesn't seem scared, she often follows him to the same shelter, even though there are several available and he also doesn't really display much interest in her generally. when she eats, she does it regardless of where he is at that time, could be eating too right next to her or could be in...

hi guys, i want to ask for your opinion about my elongated couple: a larger male and a smaller female. their growth rates are very different. while the larger male eats daily and is growing very fast, we only see the smaller female eating rarely, and usually she waits until we offer a some...

thanks - i figured it out meanwhile: some of the users use online photo sharing platforms for their images (eg photobucket). most of those are censored here in china, so the pic's won't display. for a weird reason they still don't display when i surf the forum through a vpn/proxy connection...

thanks for feedback guys :) glad if you like it, our babies sure do, they can't stop exploring. @terry: yepp, that's kind of a bonsai - the chinese version of it, so no heavy wiring to force it into shape. it's actually a plum tree with very nice white blossoms in spring. :) The caves are all...

Update on our Enclosure heya guys - it's finally warm enough to move our enclosure over to the window - and here we are: new setup and new pics for the forum :) new features: more and bigger hides warming mat under the hides (topped with turf & moss) way bigger humid area, smaller...

hey guys, looks like our baby is getting better! the red marks are becoming less and less and she's also less shy. she has picked a favorite hiding spot where she spends most of the time now and she still eats very little, but the shell condition looks way better. hope she stays on this course...

this seems to be a brand new thread but none of the pictures display. am i doing something wrong here or do uploaded images expire / stop to display within minutes on here? wondered about this many times already - thanks for your help :)

hi everyone, does anyone happen to know a source for mazuri in china? we have tried different kinds of dried turtle food here but none really seemed to match our babies' taste. never saw mazuri anywhere here. we are in beijing, btw. thanks :)

very valuable information - thanks a lot kate and katie :) temperatures should be better soon and i will update this post as soon as the enclosure has moved :) the humid hide thread was quite a good inspiration too - thanks!

never thought of that - we don't hear any noises from them and the other elongated is actually a very quiet one. the new lady (that shows the coloration) is super active though, especially during the first days we had her, she tried climbing out of the enclosures a lot, she fell on the back of...

thanks for the feedback everyone, those torts were kept on that kinda pellets before and so we continued it and actually let the retailers talk us into buying A LOT of those pellets. we are now using them up and with the new enclosure already started providing the humid area (moss/torf). they...

thanks for the feedback everyone! we use some extra flooring material and another isolating layer of carton below, so no worries about the flooring (and the sides), it's all like a big flexible water proof basin. we have a different walling for the actual spot by the windows - the cardboard...

hi everyone, thanks for the advice and feedback - skin and plastron look perfectly normal and they don't show that red-ish coloration or any other abnormal condition. we got the tortoise from very good sources so we are keeping them together already and she's actually fine, just eating a bit...

heya, this is our current elongated enclosure, it is now in a different spot as it is still winter here and kinda cold, but as soon as it is warm enough the whole thing will move right back to the window where our babies get plenty of sunshine as well as some plants as extra hiding spots. it...