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My three eggs have been in the incubator for 77 days now and no one has hatched yet. The incubator was set at 86 degrees (I meant to set it to 82 and just realized 2 months later that I never did) and all eggs look great. No mold, rotten smell, or indentations. Am I just overreacting? These are...

I picked up 4 new box turtles (3 easterns and 1 gulf coast/ eastern hybrid) last week to add to my colony and was told they were all female but upon inspection the gulf coast hybrid is male. To my surprise, as of about 20 minutes ago one of the females just dug a nest and laid some eggs. My...

Long story short I adopted a Sulcata Tortoise this morning. He’s over 100 pounds and estimated to be 20 years old. He was kept underneath a work bench in someone’s garage on the cold concrete for two years before being surrendered to a reptile rescue near me. I brought him home this morning and...

I have recently paired my male giant carrot tail leopard gecko to my female blizzard and have caught them breeding many times. It’s been 17 days since they first bred. She stopped eating yesterday which is not normal because she got her name “Psycho” from her aggressive feeding response. I’m...

I’ve had this salamander for months now and I got him from some girl who had raised him from the larvae stage when she caught him out her pond. He’s a pretty cool guy and doesn’t do much. He’d been missing for almost a month now and I just assumed he sadly passed away but I couldn’t find his...

I woke up this morning and found my eastern box turtle missing. I have just gotten him yesterday and he was spending the night in the Russian tortoise pen (the Russians came inside for the night) and early this morning he was walking around the pen looking for some worms I guess and by 8am he...

Well I had a surprise the other day when I went to check to see how my two Russians were doing (they do not live in the same indoor enclosure but seem to enjoy spending time outside together) and I walked in on them breeding. I’ve never expected them to have eggs and I’m not even sure if she...

I need some advice on how to increase the humidity in an enclosure that doesn’t have any sort of lid. I’ve noticed my Russians shell has gotten really dry and I believe his enclosure is too dry. Should I get him a log and put some moss under it and spray it or something like that? Y’all are the...

I was wondering if anyone knows the laws on eastern box turtles in kentucky. I found this http://fw.ky.gov/Wildlife/Pages/Transportation-and-Holding-of-Live-Native-Wildlife.aspx on the kentucky fish and wildlife website and from what I read it seems like there isn't a permit needed to own one...

I just wanted to share some pics of my fish. I'm more of a fish person than reptiles to be honest but my reptiles are creeping up on me :). Anyway I have a blood parrot cichlid with a jack dempsey and severum. They're in a 55 now and will upgraded soon. Any way here are my babies. please...

I need some honest opinions. I just built my new outdoor enclosure for my Russian tortoise and wanna know what y'all think. And if you see any issues tell me please. Really all I did was section off part of my garden and buried a piece of wood to stop digging. So dimensions are 5 feet wide at...

Hi everyone I'm pretty new here! Anyway my tortoise has something above his eye. I'm not sure why it is and don't know how it happened. I've only had him about a month and rescued from a bad situation. Any way here it is. Please help if you know what it is it kinda just looks like dry skin to me...

Hi everyone! I'm new here and have a question. So I live in Kentucky and we have really humid summers. And I know Russians don't like humid places right? Well I really would like to build my Russian tortoise an outdoor enclosure. Will he be alright in the humid climate during the summer? Anyway...