Its not RES but something local !!

Should be the same but not 100%sure as have no Chelonia pet die of old age yet !! Why u ask ?

Correct !! Heard of this group early this year n just got in touch n bought them !! Albino n all their normal pogeny...... So should be on my way to produce some albino ambo !!

Not too bad the price for the colony that may produce visual as soon as they lay eggs / eggs hatch !!

Unless the so call pogeny are fake (just normal not Het. ) !! LOL But I reckon worth the price just for the Albino lot alone !!

They are LTC of more than 5 yrs as claim by seller !! - No visual thus I easily convinced him to sell the whole lot to me !!!

My side !! As for the figure you will be suprised but I wont reveal !! Ya 5 years and no visual produced at his side (all 3 visual same sex bah !! )

If their gene work like Ball python just breed the visual back to their pogeny will/should produce visual !!

No promise k !! As may sell 1 or all visual !! As these few days a few offer came in from all over the place to buy them !! So how leh ?

Will surely keep a set of eggs from the visual before selling (if I do decide to sell one or all) and work from there !! As one of the offer too good too miss , I think !!

I dont want any of them to end up as a showpiece with no breeding done to produce more of them !!

But I have yet to see them as away will see them in a week or two when I return and decide from there !! Who knows I will reject all offers and keep them for myself - since not much new chelonia project planed for comming year !!

u refering to mine ? Or others ? For me , I hav yet to price or decide to sell them ornot due to me not see/touch them yet !

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BTW the colony involve 0.2.1 visual and 0.0.13 pogeny from the visual !!

This post has been edited by SAMPERTH: Dec 17 2009, 11:31 AM

Some US breeder say have to reach 10 inch to be relatively sure about the sex !!

But can guess-timate after say 4 inch (I think ) !!

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PT2192 125W
PT2193 160W

Will be best if your setup is large enough !! ie 3 ft by 1.5 ft by 2 ft (height) and above Too small you will cook your tortoise in no time ! !


Or you could buy seperate item with different function
- For UVA,UVB use
Repti Glo Compact
Repti Glo 5.0 - Tropical Terrarium Lamp

- Normal 40 - 100 Watt bulb for heat !!

You are welcome just post your pic after you got them !!

All I can say is anything above 10 inch in this sp is rare !! Let alone 13 or so inches as mention in some books/source. !! F will start to lay about 7 " so watch out or place suitable size M for mating ie 4 inch and above M

But many do say Sri lankan locale Star do max out larger !!

This post has been edited by SAMPERTH: Dec 26 2009, 10:46 AM

In-situ observation how good can that get !!

Hard or not hard depends !!

Turtle will be a better choice but if only tortoise considered try the tropical species like Asian brown or black , elongata , red or yellow footed even Burmese star are good . Radiated n yniphora are good too if price is not an issue here !!!

You dont have to hibernate them in order to breed !! And they will mate all year round with many clutch a year in our Malaysian Tropics climate !!

They are my first chelonian pets and also my first chelonia breeding project !!But now no more keeping / breeding this sp !!

They r from the tropics ie amazon n 2 of them being local Malaysian(elongata n brown)
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On average M > 4" F > 6" for size if grown properly as early as 3 yes old but mostly eggs too small / infertile !!!

I think its time to go back into hidding !! All unregistered stuff cant show already as who knows who will be online WATCHING ?? See you all in jail or ??? But for the time being lots of planning , paper work to goes thru !!