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In answer to your question about the size of the adults, a large Male can get to 12Kg, although, average are about half that. My Male is about 5.5kg |
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Looking forward to getting home so I can view the pics they will not load up at school.
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He looks great out of interest how large is the hatchling?
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They're solid little lumps then all the best with it
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Muenster Zoo News
In Myanmar, there exists an extremely rare and of course, equally highly threatened cousin of the Orange Headed Temple Turtle (Heosemys grandis), which I have just successfuly bred. The Burmese Giant Pond Turtle, (Heosenys depressa). In captivity, there are really very few of these precious animals, and in Europe a collection of them has been accumulated as a potential breeding group, at the very famous Asian Turtle breeding centre at Muenster Zoo. When I visited the centre last month, I saw that Elmar Meier had got his first clutch of eggs, from a succesful coupling at the Zoo, and since then, I have been enquiring about their progress. When earlier this week, my own Temple Turtle eggs started hatching, I was keen to know what progress was being made in Germany. In consequence, I am very pleased to receive today news of their first hatching of this species |
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This is terrific news
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14-05-2010, 07:38 AM | #29 |
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Thats excellent news, they are beautiful turtles, and I would agree they do look more tortoise like then turtle
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Having absorbed its yolk sac beautifully, and settled into the household routine during the last three days, this morning it ate for the first time. Nice juicy Wax worm, followed by a share of my breakfast Banana. I did not want to disturb this first, very important meal with Flash photography, but later in the day, after a good soak in his enclosure, I did manage to get a couple of reasonable pic's:
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