Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
30-12-2013, 06:42 PM
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Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
30-12-2013, 06:32 PM
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Top soil (from your garden if you can) mixed...
Top soil (from your garden if you can) mixed 50/50 with playsand. Fairly cheap. Diggable. Good for tortoises to walk on. Doesn't dehydrate the tortoises. Approximates to the light sandy soils they'd...
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Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
30-12-2013, 06:27 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 3,086
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Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
30-12-2013, 06:24 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 3,992
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Forum: Edible Weeds, Diet & Suppliments
30-12-2013, 06:19 PM
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Replies: 103
Views: 41,920
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Forum: Evolving Husbandry
31-12-2011, 05:04 PM
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Replies: 80
Views: 12,394
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Forum: Housing
10-12-2011, 06:55 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,096
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Forum: Housing
10-12-2011, 06:48 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,021
They look like this: ...
They look like this:
http://www.tortoiseworld.co.uk/shop/item.asp?itemid=41
Quite neat, but expensive! And if they're 4' long, then they look to be about 18" wide?
You could join two Dilling...
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Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
10-12-2011, 06:37 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,771
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Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
10-12-2011, 06:32 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 11,026
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Forum: Non Med Species - Information & Questions
26-11-2011, 01:22 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,076
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Forum: Non Med Species - Information & Questions
26-11-2011, 01:12 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 937
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Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
25-10-2011, 02:24 PM
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Replies: 62
Views: 4,364
What's the mating procedure for horsfields?
I...
What's the mating procedure for horsfields?
I do know what damage a testudo graeca/iberai can do to a female hermann, who would rather have her legs bitten than her carapace butted and bashed... one...
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Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
25-10-2011, 02:08 PM
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Replies: 121
Views: 14,475
Err, I thought I had just preached what I...
Err, I thought I had just preached what I practice, and you've just told me off for it ("You have already given your personal views on hibernation Jim, we are talking about the TT guide here")
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Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
25-10-2011, 01:45 PM
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Replies: 121
Views: 14,475
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Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
23-10-2011, 11:44 PM
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Replies: 121
Views: 14,475
Not really, it isn't. If you know it's cold out...
Not really, it isn't. If you know it's cold out there (because of the forecast or whatever) and you go and check and find that it's getting dangerously cold, you know, down to 2 or 1, then you make...
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Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
23-10-2011, 11:32 PM
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Replies: 121
Views: 14,475
Which friend would that be then, Ed?
Why do...
Which friend would that be then, Ed?
Why do I hibernate at all? I think that would be a discussion for another thread.
Wait - there's aleady been plenty of discussion of that topic.
One...
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Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
23-10-2011, 01:02 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,628
Provide a covered area big enough for the...
Provide a covered area big enough for the tortoises to get into if they want to - a small seed tray with a lid, and a section cut away as a door, or an inverted sandwich box or whatever.
You can...
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Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
23-10-2011, 12:55 PM
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Replies: 121
Views: 14,475
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Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
22-10-2011, 11:17 AM
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Replies: 121
Views: 14,475
Hi Levi.
It's odd isn't it that all the TT...
Hi Levi.
It's odd isn't it that all the TT Forum members whose contributions you have read seem to have understood the TT Safer Hibernation Guide? (I'm assuming that, as good TT members, they'll...
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Forum: Housing
23-09-2011, 08:37 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,857
That's alright then.
How do you know I don't...
That's alright then.
How do you know I don't agree with vivs? I use something like vivs for some of my own tortoises actually - particularly where it's a challenge to keep humidity levels up for...
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Forum: Housing
22-09-2011, 11:21 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,857
Hmmm. There's a clue about one of the...
Hmmm. There's a clue about one of the difficulties of using a viv. If it gets too hot for the bulb fitting, what might the heat be doing to the tortoise expected to live in the "confined space"?
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Forum: Non Med Species - Information & Questions
22-09-2011, 11:13 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,934
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Forum: Mediterranean Tortoises - Information & Questions
26-08-2011, 11:58 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 8,826
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Forum: Tortoise Health and Vets
21-08-2011, 12:45 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 855
Someone who hibernates a tortoise for seven...
Someone who hibernates a tortoise for seven months, and has painted its shell with green paint and covered it with vaseline because it seemed a bit dry, isn't exactly someone I'd follow re bathing...
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