12-09-2010, 11:31 AM | #1 |
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My indian stars
Only picked them up yesterday but they are both very active and both eating, the female's a bin,the male is a little picky but is still eating and has put weight on in a week while at the dealers house. I got them from a respected dealer here in N Ireland, I'm told they are around 3.5 years old, c/b of course,they are unrelated and came from a private collection in England. I'm housing them in a 4ft x 3.5 table, there's biggers one coming soon. I using 50/50 sand,coco husk mix, there's a UV 10 strip with reflector running the length on the table, I'm heating it with a ceramic on a day and night stat. 32c day basking down to 25 at night. The humidity on the table is 60%. Any thoughts,advise is welcome people, I'm very open minded. I have always fed tortoise weeds with the very,very odd bit of salad but after reading the 14 page long thead on pellets I thinks this looks like a good option. I'm going to worm them with this stuff, has anyone any experiences or knowledge on this stuff? Does it do the job?
http://www.kusuri.co.uk/view_product.php?id=242 Anyway here's the pic's First the female. and the male |
12-09-2010, 12:20 PM | #2 |
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They are gorgeous!
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12-09-2010, 01:34 PM | #3 |
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They're lovely torts!
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12-09-2010, 03:30 PM | #4 |
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They are gorgeous
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12-09-2010, 03:35 PM | #5 |
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They look really good and strong, congrats! Feeding pellets might take them some getting used to. Mix with the regular food initially to get them to eat it. Good luck and keep us posted.
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12-09-2010, 07:05 PM | #6 |
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try a natural source like carrot that is supposed to act as a de-wormer.
they look as they have done okay on a natural diet why change. Nice torts by the way. |
12-09-2010, 07:35 PM | #7 |
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They are beautiful!Congratulations!
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12-09-2010, 08:01 PM | #8 |
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Weeds is what I have fed in the past,these 2 I'm led to believe have been raised on pellets.
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13-09-2010, 04:21 PM | #9 |
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A natural wormer would be butternut squash and pumpkin, I would not worm them unless it is needed, I would get a sample tested to see if worms are present or not. Nice Stars, I am the odd one out here, I don't use pellets at all
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13-09-2010, 06:35 PM | #10 |
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Hi Beverley your not alone and your not the odd one out i don't use pellets either and never will,all natural food mine get.
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