Hi to you and your family of critters. Stick around and keep posting pics! Watch out for that RES ... don't put him with your youngsters for now. Quarantine.
Hi and welcome. Sorry your little tortoises were bitten by fire ants. I can't think of anything else you can do apart from lots of soaking in slightly warm water, maybe adding Pedialyte to the soak will help revive the worst affected one, Pepa. I hope he recovers. Also, they would really...
He will need to be given a long soak in warmish water every day. They also need quite high humidity in their enclosure so it will need to be covered, maybe with a portable greenhouse over it, to prevent further pyramiding. I hope you are able to follow the advice and get a bigger enclosure for...
This is not a joke! I always hear people saying that turtles are safe, friendly pets, not like snakes and lizards. But that's because they never had the terrifying experience of an encounter of the snappy kind with my RES.
Wow. He looks expectant. Hope the new owners love him as much as you do, Jeff. Not likely. Make sure you have a serious MUST LOVE WILDLIFE rule for any buyers.
When we moved from Kingston up to the mountains, I took my entire population of galliwasps from the walled garden where they lived...