09-11-2007, 06:49 PM | #31 |
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I didn't think there was anything wrong with marking the shell with a harmless marker so some sort, I've seen torts on here with a number etc on them so there must be markers that are safe to use, I'm always losing my babes in the garden and at one point even considered sticking a flag on top,
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09-11-2007, 10:39 PM | #32 | |
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Going back to torts, my first experience with torts was back in the early 70's when I was about 5-6 years old. My grandad found a lovely tort wandering around outside his garden, so he brought it in and looked after it. My brother, sister and I used to walk it in my grandads veggie patch so it could eat! Unfortunately he found out it had come from across the road, so it went home again, and had a hole drilled in it's shell so it couldn't escape again.
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10-11-2007, 01:55 AM | #34 |
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i no that alot of pet shops use plasters on there shellers then write over that, a few people use micropause on them which i wud think was ok as it is a tape that breathes and allows airflow.
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10-11-2007, 07:56 AM | #35 |
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si is tippex ok to use then, I have seen numbers or markings on some photos from people who have a lot of torts, I don't need to mark mine but I could imagine if you had a lot it could come in handy even if it was just the year they were born, if you can use nail varnish on our nails can't that be used on shells? I,m sure the blue peter tort wouldn't have been marked with anything that they thought harmfull, I've always thought that they tried to give good advice to children watching, or as good as the advice that was available at the time
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hi i confess to tippex its the only way for my wife to keep track of who does what when im at work so i can keep track of the daily goings on if the same tortoise is missing for 2 days in a row i will try to track them down and its the same if someone is off thier food this applys to the youngsters really and if christine has any worrys about a particular torts behaviour for example if a particular female acts gravid for a day or two then goes quiet this needs to be monitored .so some sort of marking helps me and i have never had any problems with tippex although outdoors they need remarking after a few months.
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10-11-2007, 03:12 PM | #37 |
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How could someone think that carving a name onto a live tortoise's shell was cool? Wonder if it feels like someone carving something into our finger nails?
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