Mountain Tortoises:

[Millerlite]

Here are a few pictures of my guys. They are about 4 years old now. Got them when they were just a few weeks old. They are doing great and growing. I'm working on an outdoor enclosure and hopefully soon they will be outdoors all year round. None the less, here are some pictures.













Here are my other two bigger ones, They are about 8 inches two inches bigger and about a year older.





Enjoy

Kyle

www.tortoise-spot.webs.com

 

[bigred]

Looking good

 

[Jessicapinkie1]

How CUTE!!!! Love them

 

[harris]

Great pics, Kyle! Always good to see those growth lines. Great idea with the dog/cat crate hide. I will most definitey introduce those as a hide when mine come in for the Winter this year. Thanks for the idea!

 

[nate.mann]

good-looking tortoises. love seeing pictures like these.

 

[Millerlite]

Great pics, Kyle! Always good to see those growth lines. Great idea with the dog/cat crate hide. I will most definitey introduce those as a hide when mine come in for the Winter this year. Thanks for the idea!

Thanks. The dog crate I had in the shed never been used in about 5 years so. I took it apart and made a hide haha. Works out perfect too. They also use it a lot. I still have the top half of the crate, it has the window slots tho... I figure when I put hides in my outdoor enclosure I'm going to try and bury it. The slots might help with humidity but also be a safe hide.... In theory.

Ill try and get more pictures. These guys are my favorites. They have been eating a bunch and growing nicely so far.

 

[N2TORTS]

Very nice ...... I have always been intrigued with that species and the "richness" of those black one's are awesome!

 

[Baoh]

Very nice ...... I have always been intrigued with that species and the "richness" of those black one's are awesome!

Very rewarding, JD, even if you just keep one around for a pet. Mine gets along really well with my other denizens, but especially well with my big female yellow foot tortoise. They often travel the yard together.

 

[tortadise]

Very nice ...... I have always been intrigued with that species and the "richness" of those black one's are awesome!

Very rewarding, JD, even if you just keep one around for a pet. Mine gets along really well with my other denizens, but especially well with my big female yellow foot tortoise. They often travel the yard together.

Agreed. Highly recommend Manouria to interested keepers.

Funny how you mention the yellow foot friend. I have some of my younger specimens kept next to my yellows. They are always making mounds, ramps, stacking or really doing anything to get over to them. Ben also has experienced similar incidents with some of his Manouria and yellow foots. Weird. They sure are very social, and beyond intelligent for sure.

They're looking great Kyle. Any attempts at breeding from the males yet? Or are they still docile?

 

[Millerlite]

No attempts yet, I'm actually not even 100 percent sure on sexes, I hope to have a few females and a male or two. They are all rather young, no signs of mating or mounting tho.

Kyle

 

[emysbreeder]

..........Kyle, Mighty fine torts. you got there! Have you noticed that phayrei have a bigger over hung upper beak than emys emys? It another way to tell them a part without turning them over to look at the pectorals.(*in press vm.) Carapace look great with the presence of dimples or convext Costal scutes as describer by Schlegel and Muller in 1884! and Bylth E. in 1853 Keep up the good work, mighty fine indeed. Vic

 

[Millerlite]

Thanks everyone. I have noticed there beaks, not quite over grown but bigger. The older ones you can tell the younger ones you can kind of notice not as much. What's weird is the younger ones are about 6-6.5 inches and the older ones are about 2 inches bigger but look way bigger lol. They sure get wide as they grow.

Kyle

 

[HermanniChris]

Definitely agree with the beak of phayrei vs. emys.