Like what hwa said, star tend to be active after sunning session. As for me, all my turtles and tortoises looks active after sunning session.

He might be expensive but he's good.

hehe.. no, i din go steal any hibiscus plant... i went on fishing! hehe... but not fish RES but...

well... i've stole a turtle from a pond inside de compound of another apartment! hehe... tat's why i said tat i'm gonna make a steal and u guys plz do wish me luck! without being caught tat is... hehe...

de reason i did tat is tat i can't bear to stand de way de kids playing near de pond and how they treat tat turtle... i live in shophouses... and i can see the pond opposite me which is inside the compound of the apartments... i can see the pond directly at my balcony... and every evening i saw those young kids plays wif it... they used to throw rocks, and even i saw bricks too inside the pond and shud be towards the turtles lor i assumed... i saw those super noti ones went inside the pond and pick the turtle out and play wif it...

yst is de worst i've seen as they took the turtle out from the pond... put bricks surrounding the turle and oso turn the turle upside down and swing it... duH! wat worst is after they finish playing wif it... they just throw the turtle back into the pond... they don just throw it in like letting it off from the palm liddat... they throw it the way they slide it like de Shell ad in TV! i can't stand it anymore and said to myself i will go tonite which means yst nite or tis early morning to turtnap it back home...

din get to make it yst nite as it was dark and inside the pond were murky can't see a thing and i did it this early AM lor... hehe... SUCCEED! no one saw me doing tat and i got de turtle back home liow... it was a nice turtle... shud be a malayan box turtle... am i rite? below is the pic of the turtle... btw, how to take care of it? can gip me a quick brief? i just gave 'em turtle pellets for now... since it's so big... i put alot of de pellets into the bucket! hahaaa!



i'll snap a pic of the plastron... can anyone tell me wat sex it is? thx!

do felt so eppy and great to have salvage the turtle from those punks... now i'm thinking wat to do wif tat turtle... but de turtle looks great... might keep it too... hehe... luckily it's shell din break and managed to witstand the tortures from those irresponsible no love for animals kind of kids! huh!! if next time i saw my kids torturing animals... i'll beat de hell out of them...

so, i guess i stole in ramadhan month is a sin liow lor... but i did it for good wor... hehe... forgiven wan ka? hehe...

meiteoh... if i'm not mistaken, ur tortue is a RES, rite... i've pet 4 RES in total and some others turtles too and from what i see... RES do bask... they really need a place to dry up and sunning... it's best to sun them... if ur setup are not outdoor or even near outdoor like balcony... then just pick them up in a bucket or etc, put them under de sun or near de sun where they can 'feel' de sunlight... if it's balcony... u can see tat they will tend to lean towards de brightest side... just like a plant u planted at de balcony... it will go towards outside and not growing inwards...

unlike mud or musk which really seldom bask... but RES really do... if not direct but indirect oso works for them... and if u think it's very troubling for u... then just go and buy a UVB basking lamp for ur tortue lor... hehe...

neway, anyone can enlighten me de way to take care of a malayan box turtle? wat do they eat? need deep or shallow water enclosure? etc etc?? wat do i NEED to know to take care of them?

here's de pic of de plastron as said...





wat sex it is ha?? he/she is way too shy away from human and bet he/she is scared of human already... once i go near him/her, de head and legs all will be stuffed back into de shell... i felt sad for it too... how can i rear it and make de turtle fear no human?

i've never seen it walk or swims... poor little turts... hmm... this is de bst shot tat i can get... summore it's a sneak shot...



do help me to help him/her ya...

Well, Tortue is active but I'm more concerned about him getting D3. Been very hazy so virtually no sun. At the moment I have him on D3 supplement but I don't think it's enough lor coz I see something weird on his shell (maybe I'm just being paranoid.)

UVB lamps are too expensive especially when you get sunlight for free all year round. Hmm...maybe I ought to take him back home to sun during the weekends. >.<

This post has been edited by meiteoh: Sep 26 2006, 08:38 AM

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)

wah... u really turtlenap ah... the park got 'no fishing signboard' or not???

a wild caught turtle/tortoise is harder to rare...
i think u need more time, cause it is not used to man handle

is it eating yet???

Sayasebudak: I got no space for tubes. I'm looking for BULBS.

Anyway, I think I'll sun him during lunch and when I balik over the weekends la.

This post has been edited by meiteoh: Sep 26 2006, 09:08 AM

ekiddie, slick job! But i advice you dont do it again! Stealing is still something not very nice to be done but anyway, he look fine to me. You need to provide him a proper both water and land area then he'll be fine. From your pictures i am guessing it a 'He'



Regards

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

Sayasebudak: I know. RM180 for one bulb. Pengsan la I.

ANYWAY, bless the heavens la coz today finally got bright sunshine. I sunned him next to the window (opened of course so he got pure sunshine instead of filtered sunlight) for about 15 mins...and my colleague is gonna sun him proper for an hour when they go play badminton later. YAY!

I took some pics anyway. Will put them up later for peeps to see.

This post has been edited by meiteoh: Sep 26 2006, 11:29 AM

nothing beats the original.... buy so expensive, but looks like a normal bulb... scared fake or not really producing same result...

wahlao, ur turtle got a lot of kai father and mother take turn to take care

Basking lamp doesnt supply UVB, they only supply UVA. Fluorscent lamp supplies UVB but in very little quantity.

How expensive ? Expect it to be more than rm50 and less than rm100. I supposed.

Every adult Malayan Box Turtle we can find now is wild caught. Its hard to find adult CB Malayan Box.

I also think that the boxie is a 'He'.

I think Pets Family UVB fluoroscent lamp is cheaper than other places. Long ones, Repti Glo 5.0 only rm67.

They are expensive for a reason. If u check their website, the UVB output is much higher throughout Repti Glo 3.0, 5.0 and 8.0 compared to a normal ones and they are designed specifically for reptile's use. So its safe to use to them.

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

Those RES are from Eastern US, yes. But those we have are CB here and they live with our climate quite well too. I even put my RES enclosure out of the house and they have a natural sunlight basking spot which at noon is quite hot. And 50% of the enclosure is water. If they feel hot, they will go inside the water or hide under a pot i put. So dont worry about them, they are the most hardy turtles ive ever met.


p/s: Ive added owner's turtles/tortoise list at Page 1. Kindly list down what u have and i'll update the list. Tq.

This post has been edited by uzairi: Sep 26 2006, 03:09 PM

uzairi, can you add these to the caresheet... thanks

Geochelone Sulcata
http://sulcata-station.org/
http://www.anapsid.org/sulcata.html
http://www.chelonia.org/articles/sulcatacare.htm
http://africantortoise.com/

Damnit. No sun today when my colleague took Tortue out to sun - rain somemore. >.<

Eessshhh...looks like I had better go get that UVB bulb la and take him home on the weekends. >.<

0.1.0 - Geochelone elegans

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

I'd like to ask how does the bedding hay looks like? I always hear you guys mention but never know hows it like...bukan forest bark kah? Or are they same? Picture will be good! Thanks.


Kamekame.

what is the best bedding that is easy to maintain for star tortoises?