Hehe you pay what you get.

Wah the one I bought wasn't cheap either. Rm 500 leh. From mudah, I can get better and cheaper. Even Malaysian tortoise oso got cheaper ones.
BTW what tortoise r u having?

Same as u. Leopard, already 5yrs.

wah take pic see see. take pic of his habitat too. want to refer refer. hehehe

and suddenly some crazy idea crosses my mind. i tot about sending the tortoise to someone in kl then ask him or her to bring to vet in kl then treat until completely healed then send my tortoise back. hahaha.

hello fellow terrapin/turtle owner

i'm quite new in the hobby so i might come in from time to time for advices (hope u guys can bear with newbies).

recently i got myself a baby RES from LFS. well.. u know those small RES usually being sold. yes i did my part for some research and getting myself ready for the commitment in hope my RES could have better days in his/her (i dont know the gender ) future life.

a little starter question tho that i might need some inputs from the experienced keeper:

1) i got provide UVB light but my RES seems not interested to bask under it. just once a while. it prefer to stay half body under water and half out. sometimes climb other rock on the other side of the enclosure for rest and get dry, but not under the UVB light. how can I encourage it to bask there? should i be worried?

2) the baby RES hardly taking his greens. provided with fresh salad at all time been made available for it. pellets as staple diet which he's eating okay but not as much. he likes the canned worms and brine a lot (he'll eat a lot when given these). provided once or twice a week only as treats. is this normal? will it cause problem in his health?

3) i got the calcium (no D3) powder thing. how the way i could provide this to him? he's rarely touch salad and the pellets, he only eat after soaked and become soft. he wont eat while it's still hard. can please suggest to me on what should i sprinkle the calcium so he will eat and get enough calcium in his diet? or should i feed something else? the brine everyday? please recommend.

heh, that's all for now and more to come definitely. hahaha!

thanks in advance

Hi! Welcome! I'm also very new. How big is it tort? How much u bought it? I think not eating vege is baby tort style. Need to teach them eat proper diet. Not sure about eating worm. Seems a bit high in protein. What is brine? Salt water?

The size is about 1.5in only. Still small. Dun want him get into unhealthy state at his age tho. I'll be damned.

Any suggestion on "teaching proper diet" for his age?

Yes. Canned worms (bloodworms) and brine (brine shrimps) hv high protein so i try not to make it as staple diet. Read it before not to make these as main food. But i also read that baby RES are more towards carnivorous until at certain age, they'll switch to be more vegetarian later.

But at his age now, especially if i hv to provide calcium supplement, what can i give him so he can eat "normally" everyday so i can sprinkle the calcium on it?

Currently i only feed pellets (2-3 pellets everyday and that's only amount he will touch). Is this normal too? But his appetite will be like eating machine when give brine shrimps/bloodworms and i thought too often of these is not good for him, no?

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Not sure though. Especially RES . Mine is leopard. Try mixing the food with vege. Maybe he/she will accidentally eats the vege. I'm not fit to give any advice though. Cz my Tortoise is still sick.

It's ok mate. Any input from anyone will be highly appreciated.

I did tried mix the bloodworms and vege, but my RES so smart, he just take the worms and leave the salad untouched. Maybe a bite, but he'll carefully pull those worms out from the mix on the next bites. zzzz...

Oh, hope ur leopard get well soon too.

Hahaha so clever ah. Same with mine. I think we can't actually fool them. Mine oso will pick out the grass I gave him. Hahaha

Wow , being away for awhile but someone still remembers me , thanks I feel great .

Yes , I did bred some chelonian species , lesser choice but am still doing it .

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Some sp that I used to have , some in picture are gigantic already - black emys and that aldabran .

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But be warned that what i breed are all illegal stuff ( can't provide paper ) , better to buy from west as those are mostly " imported " or bred locally with papers .

I only do the breeding because - my tortoise / turtle are big/old enough , I like this hobby , I like the challenges in trying to reproduce from them .

Downsizing since a few unhappy incident over the last few years .

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Blond leopard that I bred .


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I see. Hahaha I guess that's what ppl think. Actually same with me. At 1st I'm thinking of just having a companion for life then thinking of breeding. But then considering no vets here, better not to breed them unless expert liao. Now my tort sick also dunno what can do. Huhuhu... I wonder what happened over the last few years. Mind share share? I'm so busy body. Hahaha. Actually I don't think sabahan are doing it legally. The one I bought from the pet shop oso no papers one. How I wish I can visit ur tortoises.

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Anyone looks familiar ?

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Haha...most likely spot on.

Any hatchlings yet from your yniphora?

Here ya goes..

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My first clutch some years back .


At the moment nothing left .

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These 3 I release to the peninsular 2015 ( I only release at most 10 per season )


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One of them from last season has a split/extra scute release just to see where it might end up ! Stay local or travel elsewhere ( oversea ) as with that extra and I discount a bit pretty easy to spot even as an adult lol

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Wah so jealous oh u guys can raise such healthy tortoises. I raise 1 oso headache liao. Provide this provide that oso not. Haiz...