sam, ever experienced any cases of parthenogenesis among your herps?

my new shy STAR pets

xcrue, yup those stars surely are beautiful.

however, it is our obligation to tell you that the mortality rate of captive star tortoise is above 90%, with bad husbandry as the main factor behind their early demise. to tell you the truth, everything about your husbandry technique is wrong. it also tells us you had not done any research prior to getting those tortoises.

now, please do what sam told you to do (ditch those wood shavings) and do some readings on star tortoise care.

newspaper can??
yea..what type of vege u guys feed to our stars normally??
no cabbage or wet vege?

no no no..no kangkung please..kangkung contains too much acid and will cause stone problem for stars

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Added on August 20, 2009, 11:09 am
some say newspaper is not good as it contains chemicals and oil..
you can use bermuda grass as bedding

this fellar reali worth tat much?
http://www.adpost.com/my/pets/18401/

wow....bro u own a lfs?
whr ur shop?

Reptiles market is on the rise again ... that Farid Karim fella resigned already or what?

getting sarcastic and fantastic!

any leopard and sulcata pet owner here?

guess i'm a new member ...may i join? 
got a turtle as a present,seem hard to take care after read the TTT Manual.. 
any tips ?? especially food..can i just give the pallet or it need a vege more ?
dont know what species but just a normal one at aquarium shop..

My new lover... hope u guys like it... the carapace there seem have a serious injured before

nice emys

I eff-ing hate the way the guy handle that turtle.

Any radiata fan here?

My 4 inches sokakes

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You make me go  looking at your's.
I want to have that much but they are costly.

hi, what kind of tortoise is this? thanks

May I know who keeps their star tortoise outdoors? I'm thinking of placing mine outdoors coz the aquarium indoors is too small for 2 adults. Outdoors, I was thinking of using an old 3ft by 2ft cage, but trouble is with the bottom. Should I just place the tortoises on the rough cement floor or use those toilet mats sold at hardware stores?

bro how many years you took to raise them to 12inches?

Hi i just got few star and sucata...wonder if i can feed them Dragon fruit?

aren't radiatas like... freakin exprensive???   how did u manage to buy 2 batches?? are u a dato?? hehe    how much did u buy them for actually... kinda curious...

the price is actually quite cheap for cites 1 animal. and by cites 1, you know what i mean.

our you-know-who used to have throngs of them before you-know-what happened.

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Added on July 6, 2009, 5:41 pmon the other hand, let me present the first ever output of the notos enclosure here

Selamat Hari Raya people.

I'm in need of some help. Recently i just got a IST as a gift. A 2.9 incher.
He is always sleeping but that should be normal for them and its still a baby per se. During some photoperiods, it'll wake up and walk a bit den sleep again.

The problem is, he's not eating. After having him for a few days, he's only eaten like 3 times. 1st day, 1 leaf of sawi. Clovers & grass during our session in the morning sun. I'm trying to ask if theres any way for me to get him to eat. I've tried giving him hibiscus leaves, sawi, clover and grass.

I'm really worried and I humbly ask for anyone's help. =X

p.s. Just saw that his eye has sum liquid coming out. Don't know if it's tears or wat but he's still not eating. Aihs..worried =X

Edit 2: Not opening his eyes at all and not moving during our tis morning's sun session. There is liquid in both eyes now, he's constantly rubbing his eyes. Plus he hasn't eaten and excreted in 1 full day already. What does these symptoms mean? I need help..

my turtle =D

Hey Sam, I don't know its condition before i got it. I got it in some card board box which was given by the pet shop.

But i'm using newspaper as substrate. Currently using a 2x3 container with no lighting. Have something covering the top for shade and kept at a lighted place. I bring him out to the garden for a walk with shade nearly every morning as long as it is not raining. So he can always go hide whenever he's not feeling nice in the sun.

1st day i got him, he was a bit restless and i think hungry so i gave him a bit of cabbage (the only veggie i had at that time). Ate it all up. That was in the afternoon den he slept all the way till evening where i gave him 1 branch to leaf of sawi/mustard green.

After that, activity went down - not opening the eyes, constantly rubbing with liquid coming out suspect to be rheum.

Pee was normal but Poo is all white poo since i got him.

Was feeling desperate so i gave him cabbage again which he took a few bites and went back to sleep but done w/o opening the eyes.

He's still moving with his eyes closed cause he's asleep but after a while i check on him..he has moved.

Theres a few times where he went to sleep on top of the water source i provided but after a few hours i moved him. Is tat advisable coz it's rainy season now and i don't want him to catch a cold or sumthink.