It is natural for tortoise to do its business inside the water bowl. You will need to clean the water bowl very often. Why they do it inside? Well, I'm not very sure but it could be easier to pass their "stuff" out and also hygenic for them hahaha...

means tat those water are not for drinking but for him to poop ? -.-"

Well, he will drink first... after drink then only poop hahaha.... yah, it sounds gross but this is natural for tortoises.

lol.. ok den.. nothing else to worry.. getting him a bigger tank or container tomorrow.. thanks for all da info

last time i arrange both the meter like that, but now no liao lar, coz i dun think it's necessary. basically for malaysian weather it's very suitable for star tortoise, and the basking lamp also a waste of money.


that mean u have to soak your tortoise everyday! all star tortoise owner will soak their tortoise almost everyday with warm water, this is to make sure their tortoise is hydrated and also to help they poo lol

you are quite wrong there friend .

the thermo and hygrometer should be inside the enclosure, as to monitor the temperature and humidity inside the enclosure. ideally should be at both end of the enclosure, to monitor the hi/lo temperature.

and seeing that malaysian weather is quite erratic, sometimes raining suddenly and gets cold, basking lamp is needed. and no, malaysian weather is not suitable for indian/sri lankan star tortoise, too humid.

i have recently lost a 10" pardalis babcocki (quite big and certainly much more hardy than smaller STs) when the keeper (a friend of mine) left it in her verandah during a rainy night without proper heating. quite heartbreaking when she called and said 'your leopard is dead'.

so guys, be sure to monitor the temperature and humidity of your tortoises accordingly, do research, etc. never overestimate the tortoises' tolerance towards cold and humidity, especially with hatchlings and juveniles.

yeah i read from some other place that thermometer should be placed inside the enclosure and at both end, this is to monitor the temperature gradient so that you can create a basking corner and a much cooler corner for your tortoise.

however my enclosure is kinda small you see, basically the whole enclosure will have the same temperature, and if i on the basking light, i realized that the whole enclosure will become warm...

that's why i took away the basking lamp and seldom on it, unless my star got running nose or cool weather...

hi all. i got a sad story to tell.

the story is, i want to let go my average 3-4 inch RES (Trachemys scripta elegans). currently only 4 left. 3 male, 1 female (if im not mistaken). the reasons is, im moving to puchong. hardly able to play with them now. and i feel bad for that. plus my tank now seem small for them. earlier i want to let go to mother nature, but im afraid they wont be able to survive the real, brutal environment. real world is scary u know.

the current condition is great, feed once daily in the early morning with wardleys. biweekly oil their shell with gamat oil and weekly check their condition (eyes, limbs, shell) and sunbath every saturday for an hour. very active, react vigorously to a shaking food container. i feed them by hand, 1 pallet at a time. they always bite my finger, but quickly release it as they know it's finger. very tame, i can rub their head and geletek their leher like kucing. but their bites are hard and nyummy. they hardly eat vege.

i want to let them go for free, provided the future owner promise me he/she will take wonderful care of them. PM me if interested. let go only the RES. err my location of hand will be putrajaya and bangi only.

help me to help them.

Correct.

I can see that you already found the potential adopter. Hope you can get a chance to pet them again in the near future.

no discrimination . even with parkeri, callagur and co, the res still deserve good home. here's a handsome boy i adopted from fellow forumer, 3_monkey, last year. (note the bright coloring)

yo camillenoir, dont want to update yr new collection ah? pls love them ah if not i slash2 yr legs.

you'd never believe those are red eared sliders... the temperament is amazing, can stroke heads and chins without getting bitten. have to buy a new tank to house them, cause all my other adopted res are quite aggressive (bitey bitey). kudos to leviathan, for providing love and care to his res.

p/s: i'd post some pics here afterwards...

guess leviathan really showered them with love hehe
kudos

some pictures of chelonians from genus Indotestudo and Heosemys.


Elongated Tortoise (Indostestudo elongata)


Forsten's Tortoise (Indotestudo forstenii)


Asian Giant Pond Turtle (Heosemys grandis).


Spiny Hill Turtle (Heosemys spinosa).

NICEE.. all yours?

just pics i think ...

lovely shot

Those turtles are camillenoir's. Nice collection bro. The elongated's head is high yellow, very nice.

give lot of banana

i still haven't paid for the elongata actually . the color is natural, not banana induced. xxxxxy had done some good job on him.

though they go bananas over bananas, most of my fruit eaters are only given fruit once a week.


This post has been edited by camillenoir: Apr 9 2007, 09:50 PM

Yup, once or twice a week is fine. Too much is not good for them also.