nolar, people in the planted aquarium community always do this to jimat kos. cost of a planted aquarium is way way higher than for a turtle/tortoise. have to be careful though how you place the wiring at your aquarium

the turtles are not smelly, just that the water will become smelly if you dont change it often enough. the stuff that i buy for them are considered "basic". no cosmetic/decoration pun

it's glass. sent to glass shop. had to pay extra RM40. (actually not hard to do yourself. but quite hard to find a suitable sized glass). have to check their work though, because mine was leaking water at the basking area. had to use silicone sealant to cover the leak

i thought nezumitaro was asking me? never mind la i still want to reply

i think this is the 2nd time im posting this question
anyone know any herp vets? or at least one that has very good experience with turtles? im thinking of bringing my turtles to the vet

err how expensive should i expect?
hard to determine its sex since cant see the tail and all.
these are websites that refer to regarding malayan box turtle
http://www.centralpets.com/animals/reptile...es/tur2623.html
http://www.chelonia.org/Articles/Camboinensiscare.htm
BTW, how big is it actually? mines i 4"++

not that expensivela. my uvb bulb is rm42 (20 watt 24") and the holder cost me RM36.50 (DIY one)

if bulbs than cannot help. very very very expensive one. try looking at places other than pet family. i noticed that they tend to overprice the products. good luck though. i havent found them at any other place. even some shops that sell exo-terra stuff haven't heard of it

Do you guys monitor the temperature of your turtles enclosure, especially for those species with from different climates.

For my RES, i know that their from the US, and most websites recommend that the temperature for the basking area and water area to be way way lower than the temperature that i am having now for my RES. they even recommended me to buy a chiller! which is way way expensive. should this be of any concern? could it be that the RES sold here are locally bred and therefore already adapted/evolved to our climate?

maybe i should install a fan at my res aquarium (similar like the one i used for my planted aquarium)

This post has been edited by sayasebuk: Sep 26 2006, 01:20 PM

pheww. glad to hear that . i was afraid that our climate had anything to do with the condition of my turtles
my turtle list:
1.0.0 - Cuora Amboinensis (you sure ke uzairi mine is male?)
0.2.0 - Trachemys scripta elegans (at least i think they're female)

maybe you can buy the shortest reptiglo bulb which is only 15 inches. i think that not be too long. the price is below RM40 somemore

This post has been edited by sayasebuk: Sep 26 2006, 04:15 PM

Fot the first two picts, i think just normal shedding. I saw the same thing with my two RES. The faster they grow, the more skin you will see. My littlest RES sheds more skin than her bigger sister. When i bought them, she was way smaller. Now they are already the same size (after 3 mths).
FOr the rest of the picts, i think your tortue is beginning to get problems like my two RES. Furthermore, do you see any pink area at the plastron (under shell). i read that this should also be a concern.

The thing is, im not sure whether its concave or not. Nampak macam tak. May need to look at some examples

Meet my first turtle.
My girlfriend (now wife) bought it for me when coming back from kelantan. Guess that was a sign of things to come yess


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Meet Shelly.
I bought her for my wife's birthday last july. I think was just a few weeks after i bought my RES. . My wife loves her very much and brings her to bed

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Anyone found any turtle enclosures such as these waterlandtubs here in malaysia?
http://www.waterlandtubs.com/products.htm
How much easier life would be kalau ada

if have time can la, but normally no time one hehe. if the stuff is cheap better buy. but if mahal might have to consider DIY

how much does the blue tank cost anyway?

100% water meaning no basking spot? BTW by using water tanks, how do you manage filtering and water changing? Been hovering in my mind for quite some time

change manually meaning cedok air using pail & bucket? Or do the tanks have pipes/taps that you can turn on to remove the water?

wa lau weeyy, every two days have to do that? konfirm i cannot do. balik from work always near dusk. ill need to think a strategy hehe.
BTW for your turtles do you just use tap water or decholrinated salted water?
ermm mine also eats pellets and blood worms. but they really like kangkung. i tried giving him sawi but he doesnt like it. only eat after 2 3 days.
but now i trick him a bit. mix kangkung with sawi. walla, finish semua.

DO you guys know what are the top 5 biggest tortoise? I've been phantasizing. wouldn't it be cool during hari raya, people come to your house and get the shock of their life after seeing a few giant tortoises roaming around your house. . that really is something you dont see everyday. i know i haven't seen it. in fact, i've never even seen a house with baby/juvenile pet tortoises/turtles let alone adults.

i know galapagos and sulcata are among the top 5

I i recognize them correctly, than i think there should be no problem. I've had them both in my turtle aquariums before. but decided not put anymore. because will easily die and clog my filter. usually because not enough nutrition, or got whacked by the turtles

someone was asking a question about her/his RES eye condition.
i think no one replied or noticed

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...8&#entry8650668

Updates on my turtle. Went to see a vet at City Pets Serdang last saturday. I brought all three of my turtles.
Findings:
Eventhough the vet is not an exotice/herp vet, she seems to know what she's doing and quite experienced. Apparantly she has received a lot of visits from turtle owners (most of the time from some radiated owners who lives nearby). She gave some antibiotics and shell care stuff. She found nothing wrong with my malayan box turtle. (my box turtle no longer swims lopsided BTW).
All in all i was quite satisfied with the vet. I can see that she likes pet (she kept talking to the turtles) .

BTW since i havent named my turtles (im bad with names), i've decided to call them
abang (malayan box), kakak (older RES) and adik ( younger RES)

Forgot to mention, it was only RM15. She gave me some liquid antibiotics to be fed directly to the RES. (if i want to give to the box turtle, should put it into his food since he is not sick). I read somewhere that it is better to inject antibiotics than to feed them. dont know how true though.
The clinic is at serdang raya. its along the road from seri kembangan to K.L when you want to skip sg besi tol (PLUS). The doctor that i met was dr goh. they have 3 doctors i think.
BTW i think confirmla my box turtle is a he

This post has been edited by sayasebuk: Oct 2 2006, 05:49 PM