Hi All,

I just got myself 2 little cute Star today. Sex unknown. Their captivity setup is simple, just some corn corb bedding and shallow dish with water. will feed them sawi and papaya.

Will learn more on the Star from all the sifu sifu here..

Regards,
Andrew

This post has been edited by andrewnib: Oct 20 2007, 01:55 PM

Hi Samperth,

Thanks for the advise. They are about 2 inches. Their enclosure is about 1.5 feet x 1/2 feet. Planning to convert my 2ft x 2ft aquarium for them but i think that will be too big just for 2 small fellas. he he. . .

Luckily i haven't feed them any papaya yet. I fed them with sawi only but today they seems to get bored with it already. . the first 2 days, they like it a lot. ha ha . .i feed them once a day only. Is that enough?

Hi Sifu out there,

Need to find out something. I found that 1 of my star tortoise took some time to open up it's eyes. It will rub it few times to get it's eyes open. When i have a closer look, its eyes seems like got tears and it's eyelids seems like swollen compare to the other side. but later on, it looks normal a bit. Is this normal? or is this some disease?

Oh by the way, it still eats greadily.

(sigh) . . i killed one of my star tortoises yesterday . . .i put them outside as usual for their sun bathing session... I forgot to take them in and by the time i realized, 1 of them died . . . and the other one almost died ( spitting out lots of salivas ) . . but able to safe that one . . . and it refuse to eat today . .

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Added on November 9, 2007, 11:51 pmYou guys care to share where you bought your tortoise from? i bought mine from a pet shop in Subang SS19. . Thinking to find few more shops to shop around for few more tortoises. .


This post has been edited by andrewnib: Nov 9 2007, 11:51 PM

Yah. . i am more careful now when sun bath them, I did soak the remaining star in the water and it is eating as normal now But the appetite is not as good as before.. Maybe lonely ..hahaha . . .

I am thinking to add Sulcata, Red Foot, Yellow Foot and some other land tortoise into my collection. . But this will take time ... kena jaga pocket a bit . . will slowly add species by species . . I never realized that tortoise keepinh can caused addiction . . .

This post has been edited by andrewnib: Nov 13 2007, 10:21 PM

No lah . . water water thing i don't want to play . . . haha

Hi, maybe you wanna have a look few of the species from the link below:

http://www.reptilesweb.com/reptiles-sectio...oise-world.html

Maybe you starve them 1 or 2 days, then feed them sawi. When they hungry, they'll eat it . .that's what i did to mine . .he he . .

As for the pellets, I am using Sera brand called Raffy Vital. Anyone used this ?


Rgds,
Andrew

Errrr . . Sorry, my question might sound stupid . .but. .what species is this yah ???

Hi,

Took some pictures of my little ones. .

I fed them with pellet once or twice a week or when i am out of vege . . .

Yah . .they do eat the green bitter pellet....

Yah . .i got to agree with that . .

Depends on the type of the tortoise you are getting, some of the price might burnt your wallet when you first buying it but if think back and compared to other type of pet, i think it is cheap. The food we are buying for tortoise is cheap, say you can get a bunch of Sawi for RM1 and can last for a week. For fish, keeping, we have to travel up and down to get live food for fries and adults. . .take into consideration about the milleage and time, also compare to the care, tortoise consider need a minimum care, as long as the temparature and food is right, they do well with it . . For fish, we got to watch out the water condition and change water every now and then. . . So tortoise keeping is cheaper and easier i guess....

But anyway, at the end, it's all back to our satisfaction . . .

Hi all, I took the picture this morning . . .




Sorry for the blurry image . . i am in rush this morning and have a fast snap with my handphone . . .

Hi Mentor Mentor , i have some questions here and hope can get some advise . . ..

1) Is Sweet Potato Leaves good for Star and Sulcata?
2) Is it a compulsary/necessity that all tortoise to discharge the white thing before the green stool?
3) Any Sulcata expert here? i need a lot of advise especially on their diet. Currently i feed it with sawi and sweet potato leave only. also i let it out to graze a bit on the grass (Cow Grass) ...As i read from the net, all the mentioned suitable food for sulcata seems hard to find . .

Thanks a lot camillenoir. . .

Yah . . i am going to get it . . .