Hi from Tenerife!

[spadget]

Hi everyone!!

We are Carl and Dannii and we live in Tenerife, spain.

We've recently bought 2 tortoises, named Digi and Spadget

We're not 100% sure what species they are so have attached some photo's in case someone can help.

Lovely to be here!

http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m495/cyberwitch13/IMG_2292.jpg

http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m495/cyberwitch13/IMG_2293.jpg

http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m495/cyberwitch13/IMG_2301.jpg

http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m495/cyberwitch13/IMG_2295.jpg

 

[zoogrl]

Welcome to the forum!

 

[Kenny]

Welcome aboard.
Digi and Spadget are leopard torts

 

[Sweetness_bug]

Hi Welcome to the forum. Both are leopard tortoise.

 

[JohnathanO]

Welcome to the forum!!

Nice looking Leopards!

 

[spadget]

Thanks for your replies. We arent sure that they are leopards as one is 8 years old and would have thought he would be bigger than that. But you're the experts lol

 

[egyptiandan]

Welcome to the forum Carl and Dannii

I agree You do have 2 Leopard tortoises, Stigmochelys pardalis babcocki. They look to be 2 males also.

Danny

 

[spadget]

Welcome to the forum Carl and Dannii

I agree You do have 2 Leopard tortoises, Stigmochelys pardalis babcocki. They look to be 2 males also.

Danny

You think they're 2 males :/ we got told they were male and female so i hope not. Is there any way of telling properly? Thanks

 

[Isa]

Welcome to the forum
Your tortoises are very cute!

 

[spadget]

can you take a photo of the bottom part of their shell? specifically where the tail is?

yes there is one of each here:

http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m495/cyberwitch13/IMG_2302.jpg

http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m495/cyberwitch13/IMG_2306.jpg

 

[Torty Mom]

Welcome to TFO, beautiful torties!! Mary Anne

 

[Kristina]

Danny is our resident expert on both species and sexing. If he says it is a certain species, it is. If he says it is a certain sex, it is 99.9% likely that is what it is.

Unfortunately the people you purchased from were not straight forward with you, that happens all too often.

Welcome to the forum!

 

[yagyujubei]

Two VERY nice looking leopards with exceptionally smooth shells. I think the second one could be a female, but it's really a little early to tell. I think that they're closer to 4 years than 8 though.

 

[Yvonne G]

Hi Carl and Dannii:

Welcome to the forum!!

Danny is very good at sexing tortoises, so you can probably rest assured that they are both male, however, before I read Danny's post, I was going to say that the bigger one was female. Doesn't help, huh! Sorry!

 

[ALDABRAMAN]

Welcome, they look good.

 

[Tom]

Hello and welcome. What a find! Those are fantastic looking leopard tortoises. Keep them good and warm and they should grow nicely for you.

It is hard to sex young torts, but I think that second one (on the pink shorts) MIGHT be female. Time will tell. I din't think this until after I saw the second set of pics. I wonder if Danny saw the second set yet. He is usually right.

8 sounds a bit old to me too, but sometimes they just grow very slowly.

Anyway, hope to see more pics of them and hope you have fun here.

 

[egyptiandan]

Just saw the pictures.

First one male and second one female

Danny

 

[coreyc]

Welcome to the forum

 

[spadget]

Thanks everyone!! I hope they are male and female. If they do turn out to both be males then will they need to be seperated later on or will they get on ok together?

Fingers crossed