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    another baytril thread

    Hi everyone, I was going to answer the other thread titled 'help please (antibiotics, now ill)', but as my post was becoming very long I tought he started looking like thread hijacking so I decided to open my own thread... my questions are kinda similar tough. Forgive my unperfect english if...
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    Isn't she a he?

    Hi everybody, I have a boettgeri who is 3 years old. She was supposed to be female, but I now beleive he will be male. His/Her tail has grown a lot this year, and he/she is developping dominant attitudes such as chasing and even mounting. I quickly made a few pictures this morning and...
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    koopa is back

    after almost 3 months of hibernation, Koopa is back with us. Here's a few pictures showing how fast she recovered her appetite! OMNOMNOM... A few minutes after... Asking for more! I ended up giving her some cactus ... The queen in her castle. napping head in, legs out...
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    Koopa's tortarium 2.0

    Hey all :) I was a bit tired of my terrarium and wanted to built a new one. My former one was built in a hurry when I received my tortoise, I had not much tools, not much time and not much money at that time, the cuts were not straight. But at least it was a confortable home for my koopa baby...
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    3 plants to ID

    Hi everyone, I am just coming back from a greek island. While over there I was thinking about my little shell, a western hermann, which stayed home under the watch of a friend. I had to smuggle some plants from greece hoping my little rat would appreciate it since her natural habitat was not...
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    should I worry? (loss of appetite)

    Hi everyone, I'm a bit worried about koopa, my nearly 2 year old boettgeri hermann tortoise. I got her end of last summer and this is my first tortoise. I never had a problem, she only had worms. You can see the inside of her habitat in this topic i made a few days ago. Temperatures are...
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    webcam

    I put my webcam in my tortarium to spy on my tort when I am away :rolleyes: Here's a couple of videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyui7X2mr0E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iANXZenwZVY
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    koopa is up

    Hey all, I love to see your pics, time for me to contribute a little :) While koopa was in hibernation I made a few upgrades to her habitat, including a slot to hold a webcam, here is a link of a small vid i took not long ago, it was one week after she woke up: link to the video And here...
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    advertisement

    I just seen this add on tv: from Actimel I guess it was made for UK, anybody seen it before?
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    My hermann hibernation (with pics)

    Here is what I ended up doing to hibernate Koopa, my hermann, I'm posting pictures hoping it can help other members who are curious about hibernation in a basement. It's my first one so I can't help being a bit worried. I listen to weather reports all the time for temperatures. The tortoise was...
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    picts of koopa

    Just a few pictures of my boettgeri :) - Waking up in the morning, just a few days after I received it. - a video of koopa eating a bit after. - I started to put plant in the habitat soon after. - Koopa is always hungry. - on this one you can see her favorite hide at the back...
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    Do I have a boettgeri?

    I was taking clean pictures earlier to fill up my CITES. Since I have these nice pictures, I can now ask you guys to confirm my tortoise ID. When I bought it it was tagged as a testudo hermanni, female. I read the sticky in this forum to ID the hermannis, and if I am not wrong it is a...
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    just coming back from the vet :(

    This was the worst experience for my tortoise so far. I took it in a cardboard box with a wet tissue for the moist and a small hide hoping it would feel as comfortable as possible. Despite of that my tortoise was stressed and scared the whole time and even pissed her pants at some point. Also it...
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    some questions about my hermann

    Hi, I m a new member, who received an young hermann a few days ago, as described in my presentation thread, where you can see the tortoise and its enclosure. I have a few questions: - one thing kinda worries me. My turtle doesnt sleep under the dead leafs, nor under the little hideout I made...
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    Hey there

    Hi everybody, A few days ago a friend gave me a tortoise for my birthday. It is an hermann born in 2009, coming from a pet shop. The tortoise was named koopa (pretty common name for a tortoise I suppose :rolleyes: ) As soon as I received koopa I started to read forums to give her the best...
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