My indoor setting very very basic
- tropical sp , i use wood bark ( exo terra forest bark ) or similar as substrate and a hide just like my Indotestudo hatchlings pic i posted yesterday . Heat provided from above till they about 4-6" depending on sp 

- drier sp , i use paper pellets or wood pellets as substrate and a hide !! Food fed on a plate . Heat provided like above !!

All watering done out of enclosure / container .... So substrate need to cope  only with pee and poo ( last longer )

Outdoor one varies and changes as the " season needs " but some ( tropical sp like footed , elongated , spider or hinges .... ) on grounds 24/7 only moved if greens stop growing or dont grow as well( usually once a year )  !!

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Pic of varies outdoor or indoor setup I have posted before but i think many of you here are " new " so may not have seen !! Give me time and contribute to this thread and i will repost as needed or when i make or found them .

Too sleepy a thread considering these pets of ours are so so interesting !!

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Just be warn unless its ex-pet ( thus LTC ) all Kleinman's in our country are WC import !!

If can afford pls buy more as they become more rare in the trade as times fly . If not for their size i would have bought more to work with them !

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May I know the size of the enclosure? And which specie are you keeping?

Tq.. 

Where do you get mazuri food from?

LOL.. I have the same worry too if I keep it outdoor.. plus kena gigit by rats, dog, etc.. 

Egyptian tortoise.. Hmmm.. didn't see anyone selling it.

Being a breeder is my ultimate goal as well.. 

2 star & 2 leopard. wanna get more but gf disallowed.. 

Both pairs are slightly above a thousand each. They were not babies when I got them. My 2 leopard are 7 & 9 inches each; My 2 star are 5 & 6.5 inches each.

What about yours? 

I am also a newbie.. less than a year experience.. 

I'm keeping the leopard in a blue fiber tank with black soil mixed with coconut coil.

I'm keeping my star in a cage with those black floor mat. Not an idea enclosure but I try to soak them a bit more frequent to avoid dehydration.

I have limited space as I am keeping all four on my balcony..   

What about you? Care to share?

Even with less than 500 wild specimen ( less than that number in captive )  Yniphora can only command less than RM 5000 a pc ( last known price of 3" ) HOW much do you think an Egyptian is worth ( you can think many things BUT there are a few hundred captive specimen in the world ) I know many of those colony - Europe , USA , parts of Asia including Malaysia ..................

EGYPTIAN are not that rare overall as a sp !!

Pricing is what you think its worth - IF YOU LIKE its priceless , if you dont need it anymore its worthless till you found another who wants and needs it  !!

SINCE you mention me , I reply what I know !!

I have a few european friends telling me that there are some rich collectors who are willing to dish out Euro 100k for legal baby Yni with paper trail - compare that with RM 10 k egyptian ( i doubt this pricing thou ) or RM 9xxx for aldabran

About same price from US collectors but in USD !! Thats how rare Yni are in non asian country !! If can afford buy before its too late ( maybe already too late as harder to sight one in market nowadays as compared to few years back )

Yni ( cant be legally owned in most case ) cant be compared with Aldabra ( can be legally owned and legally bred elsewhere - takes years many years to mature to reproduce thus the higher price ? )
Most sp that are sold in Malaysian market can reproduced in under 10 years - Aldabra takes about 15-20 years to do that .

Just go to any nusery, get those black soil premixed with coconut coil. Tell them you want those without any pesticide added.

Huh? What is "+ something + something"?

To make it simple: Usually I just go to any nursery, tell them I need black soil mixed with coconut coil without any pesticide added. To save your concern, it's better to go to a nursery that you can trust.

The above is just my way. It might be wrong. Better to get the opinion of other forumers who are more experience. I'm only under-a-year tortoise keeper..