27-10-2011, 06:07 PM | #1 |
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Spider Tortoise
I get many new tortoises but I rarely get as excited as when I got this one...
This is the female hatching out... I had 3 female Spider Tortoises... no male. I gave them to a friend on breeding loan. He has a good tallent with this species. This year he got babies out of my females. I told him I have a female that is the only one I hatched out about 10 years ago. He works at the Knoxville Zoo which is also working with the species. He arranged to trade my hatchling for a known male at the zoo to give to me. I'm so stoked over it. I now have a CB pair of Pyxis a. arachnoides with a cool history. The male I got was part of a TSD study. The female is the one with the lighter markings. Another note... the male has split scutes.
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27-10-2011, 06:11 PM | #2 |
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They are superb Ed!!!!...
You gotta get the chirping footage though....xx |
27-10-2011, 06:20 PM | #3 |
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nice looking animals.
Do you have any pictures of the babies hatched from the females? |
27-10-2011, 06:24 PM | #4 |
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Very nice, Ed.
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27-10-2011, 06:25 PM | #5 |
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I was looking at spider tortoises on the web today before I see this post.
I think they are lovely tortoises, great markings
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I do... on 35mm. I'll scan it and post to this... it was that long ago which wasn't that long ago of you think about it... really scary.
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27-10-2011, 06:34 PM | #7 |
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lovely torts EJ
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Very nice torts.
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What beautiful tortoises, never seen or heard of them. How big do they grow, they look like a small breed.
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They are beautiful ed! Well done!
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