Wow hey...nice to see you guys who are so passionate towards shelled reptiles...anyway...i'm new here...have been keeping turtle for years...have you guys ever noticed that you can never finish collecting all species?

Geez...thanks...well...currently i have 11sp...with golden thread turtles as the majority in my turtle battalion

Not really...if im not mistaken there are some people keeping yni...man...i admire these people...

Does it make any difference? I mean...some sellers are selling legally and some are not...the buyers are just the buying without the knowledge...most of the buyers dont even know whether it is illegal to keep certain types of tortoises...

Speaking of which...I really hate those sellers who sell the TTTs for the sake of selling...for the sake of profit...without paying attention to the environment and the conditions of the TTTs...bloody unethical at all...

Imagine that turtles are being kept in a pale without water...tortoises being kept in a captivity without any appropriate tools...

Its very heartbreaking when I see these scenarios

ooo...fortunately all my turtles are not endangered or forbidden from being kept...i am safe mate

I have a same situation here...two of my RES are from the same batch where they were hatched at the same time...but the male one has grown way way way way bigger than the female one...they feed on the same diet as well as the same captivity...

what is going on anyway? anyone has any idea?

Sorry...been busy with my projects...anyway...here are the pics...you can see the significant gap of growth between them two


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Ooo...so the bigger one is a she huh~? This makes it a fat girl then

This is what ive been doing for months...aint no luck though...the big one is getting bigger and the growth of the small one remains stagnant...

or should i take it to a vet?

True, and they eat almost everything you throw at them...i used to keep one...bought from a ahpek in Terennganu...and guess what...i made the salt water using only normal salt...and it lived happily in the pond...here are the pics of it...enjoy





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thanks...and by the way...you dont even need a super water filter system...as a matter of fact...i dont use a filter in its setup

im not encouraging you all to keep those endangered turtles...just letting you all know how tough they are in adapting to a new environment...the main factors they become endangered are because of their natural predators and of course...human factors

if they are bred in captivities...im sure their numbers will increase excessively...just like how the Chinese did to increase the population of the sturgeons...the sturgeons used to be the most endangered fish in China...after years of captive breeding...they are now being sold in restaurant as delicacies in Taiwan...

This post has been edited by duhknight: Oct 17 2008, 10:46 PM

True, last time i bought a leopard tortoise from them and it died after 5 days...f***...and my friends also bought 2 RES of which also died after a few days...mind you...they do not and will not refund you for the dead reptiles...they will refund you for the dead dogs or cats though...such an ars*hol* BIG company.

This post has been edited by duhknight: Oct 19 2008, 10:50 AM