Update

[Yellow Turtle]

Here is the new substrate. Bamboo leaves from Madagascar.

Where do you get bamboo leaves from Madagascar?

 

[DesertGrandma]

Gorgeous

 

[Radiated]

thanks, i will get something bigger for water. The bamboo leaves were imported from Madagascar.

 

[tortoises101]

Great improvements on your radiated and ploughshare setups.

As for the sea turtles though, no offense, but you should really give the hawksbill to a research institute or better, release it back into the ocean. It will be much happier there. Sea turtles are some of the most graceful and otherworldly creatures on the planet, but the fact is they don't do well in captivity unless in huge setups dedicated to them.
An example of this is a group of green sea turtles in the Bahamas. They're raised in a large lagoon with thousands of gallons of sea water pumping through it. The setup is maintained by dozens of professional keepers, who always released the hatchlings into the nearby ocean to support their conservation.

 

[Yvonne G]

Please excuse a little off topic note to Tony: Tony, you need to update your bio. You are sounding quite a bit more mature than the 14 years you've posted in your bio. You have done a whole lot of growing since you joined the forum 3 years ago!

 

[Yellow Turtle]

Great improvements on your radiated and ploughshare setups.

As for the sea turtles though, no offense, but you should really give the hawksbill to a research institute or better, release it back into the ocean. It will be much happier there. Sea turtles are some of the most graceful and otherworldly creatures on the planet, but the fact is they don't do well in captivity unless in huge setups dedicated to them.
An example of this is a group of green sea turtles in the Bahamas. They're raised in a large lagoon with thousands of gallons of sea water pumping through it. The setup is maintained by dozens of professional keepers, who always released the hatchlings into the nearby ocean to support their conservation.

+1 to this. Unless you have like 1000 gallon tanks with natural sea environment, I would prefer the sea turtle to be released back to the sea.

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Please excuse a little off topic note to Tony: Tony, you need to update your bio. You are sounding quite a bit more mature than the 14 years you've posted in your bio. You have done a whole lot of growing since you joined the forum 3 years ago!

LMAO!

 

[Steve_McQueen]

How large is your hawksbill currently?

 

[Radiated]

Great improvements on your radiated and ploughshare setups.

As for the sea turtles though, no offense, but you should really give the hawksbill to a research institute or better, release it back into the ocean. It will be much happier there. Sea turtles are some of the most graceful and otherworldly creatures on the planet, but the fact is they don't do well in captivity unless in huge setups dedicated to them.
An example of this is a group of green sea turtles in the Bahamas. They're raised in a large lagoon with thousands of gallons of sea water pumping through it. The setup is maintained by dozens of professional keepers, who always released the hatchlings into the nearby ocean to support their conservation.

Thanks, I will see what I can do about it. Any other suggestions on the tortoise setups?

 

[Radiated]

Here are a few rare turtles I keep

And a Aldabra I'm going to buy:

 

[Steve_McQueen]

That Aldabra looks like it has MBD.

 

[pugsandkids]

That Aldabra looks like it has MBD.

What do you see that makes you think that?

 

[theelectraco]

That Aldabra looks like it has MBD.

What do you see that makes you think that?

The back of the shell slopes downwards. A common sign of mbd.

 

[TotallyRad]

That aldabra looks like healthy growth as far as pyramiding, is that back scute indented a sure sign of mbd tho?

 

[pugsandkids]

That Aldabra looks like it has MBD.

What do you see that makes you think that?

The back of the shell slopes downwards. A common sign of mbd.

Hmm, interesting...

 

[Steve_McQueen]

That Aldabra looks like it has MBD.

What do you see that makes you think that?

The back of the shell slopes downwards. A common sign of mbd.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

 

[Blakem]

Here are a few rare turtles I keep

And a Aldabra I'm going to buy:

Very neat turtles you have there! Quite the collection. It's amazing that the plough share is easy to get in your area.



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[Steve_McQueen]

Here are a few rare turtles I keep

And a Aldabra I'm going to buy:

Very neat turtles you have there! Quite the collection. It's amazing that the plough share is easy to get in your area.

I think it's quite sad that all of these animals are so easily available. Over consumption like this is a huge part of the problem, and why Ploughshares are in the state that they are. Most of these things should be left to qualified experts with well established breeding programs, or zoos.

 

[Radiated]

I dont think it has MBD, but not sure, i brought it home anyways. In Asia these turtles are all bred, only few are WC, thus one of them is extinct in the wild so it is CB. Whats wrong with that? Its captive bred anyways.....

 

[Steve_McQueen]

First, wrong. They're not currently extinct in the wild. Captive bred or not (skeptical without proof), you're still working with nine of one of the world's rarest tortoise. If you don't have the resources and ability to breed these very rare tortoises, then what are you doing with such a large colony? Think about what's best for the species as a whole.

 

[Radiated]

First, wrong. They're not currently extinct in the wild. Captive bred or not (skeptical without proof), you're still working with nine of one of the world's rarest tortoise. If you don't have the resources and ability to breed these very rare tortoises, then what are you doing with such a large colony? Think about what's best for the species as a whole.

I never said anything about the tortoise being extinct in the wild, I was talking about the turtles. Why are you so against this, just because you dont have them doesnt mean no one can. People across asia keep them as pets and when they are large enough people will breed them.

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Yellow Turtle would agree that these are all CB, its impossible that they are from the wild or they will be completely gone. Read the other thread where they discuss this. And Steve_McQueen, that Aldabra does not have MBD....