I was given three turtle eggs from Matt, but only one ended up being fertile and on August 5 this little guy hatched for me... I was a very exciting day for me and the wife...
So, I was over to Matt's house yesterday picking up my rescued box turtle that he was treating the injuries for and he asked if I wanted a couple box turtle eggs and after getting the okay from the wife, I am now the owner of 3 box turtle eggs.
The outer 2 look very good and we will have...
So Me and my daugher decided to go check out the reptile show in Arlington on Saturday "bad idea" after walking around a few times looking at all the snakes and other reptiles. We didn't see anything we liked so we decided to leave and as we past a booth my daughter noticed a plastic container...
I found a craigslist add yesterday for a female three toed and they were only asking $30 for her. So I call the guy and he tells me that they had her in with there bearded dragon and she got bite on her back leg so they feel its best to find her a new home. He also told me the wound was already...
This is our little guy Houdini, he has been very hard to photograph. We decided to name him Houdini because he was missing in his enclosure for a week while he was absorbing the tail and when we try to catch a glimpse of him at night, all we hear is the splash in the water and then he is no...
Most of my tortoises decided to enjoy some of this nice weather we are having.
Oogway...
Red...
Tejas.. Hiding from me...
And Honey, she decided to soak in the sun...
Thanks for looking...:D
Alice enjoying some strawberries
She wasn't too happy about me snapping photos..
After eating, she dug in for some sleep..
This is millie our smallest box turtle, she also didn't want her picture taken so she made a mad dash to cover herself up.
Now no...
I am looking to add more plants to Oogways outside enclosure. I have been through the list of plants but thats not doing me any good. I would like to know what others have planted in there Hermanns outside enclosure that is working good for them. I want to make it look as natural as I can...
I was tired of building tortoise houses from the ground up, so I went out looking for something I can modify. I found a small dresser that was going to be perfect and it cost $20. All the other supplies were left over from other builds.
I forgot to take photo's of every step I did but I did...
I wasn't looking to get any more Redfoot's at the reptile conference, but when I saw this pair I couldn't pass it up.
This is the male, he has a concaved plastron and he getting the hourglass shape. He weighted in this morning at 878 grams. He has a small line on the carapace that I believe...
I would like to introduce my new Redfoot hatchling. I have named the little one Alice after my favorite movie character.
I got this little one from Matt and even though I was not looking for a Redfoot tortoise, this one had split scutes and I couldn't pass on it.
These two photo were sent...
I thought this would be a cool way to show how much my box turtles have grown....
This first photo was taken 10-22-2011
This on was taken last night before there bath tub swim/soak 1-17-2012...
They are all growing at a nice pace now...
After 2 days of rain I went to check on my outside torts and to my surprise they were all out enjoying the 50 degree sunny day...
Vegas
Honey, she was grazing on the grass when I first walked out.
Tejas came out and went right to his favorite spot, minus all the overgrowth...
We have been having good weather and I want to all my torts and turtles time outside so I made a few changes to the space I had reserved for my box turtles so Oogway could use it.
And this is what the box turtles will have once everything I planted starts to grow...