Snail Eaters, Scorpion Muds, and flat Tortoises?

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Cool snail eaters! Are they eating for you? If so, what are they feeding on?

I acquired several as hatchlings and split them up with a friend, all are doing great and have grown quite a bit. Have been on pellets for their entire lives.
 
coura;4650782; said:
Snail eaters have to be the coolest small turtle species :D
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Snail eaters are small turtles? The ones I've seen in Bangkok were massive. I didn't measure them, but the biggest females were about the size of a RES female and a lot bulkier.


It's also interesting to hear that red cheeks are in high demand in the US. In Europe most people want to get rid of them because once they start to lay eggs, they do it nearly monthly and one couple can get you 40+ hatchlings per year.
 
cobra blitz;4652942; said:
Cool snail eaters! Are they eating for you? If so, what are they feeding on?

I acquired several as hatchlings and split them up with a friend, all are doing great and have grown quite a bit. Have been on pellets for their entire lives.
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Shrimp right now.......They should take to Pellets soon though......The things are curious about everything, so it's only a matter of time.......

I've got them slow roasting in 84 Degree Terramycin Water, and they seem to be doing really well........They also like thier Shrimp shelled, and they know how to do it really well......

AFRO-thunder;4654735; said:
Snail eaters are small turtles? The ones I've seen in Bangkok were massive. I didn't measure them, but the biggest females were about the size of a RES female and a lot bulkier.


It's also interesting to hear that red cheeks are in high demand in the US. In Europe most people want to get rid of them because once they start to lay eggs, they do it nearly monthly and one couple can get you 40+ hatchlings per year.
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Subtrijuga are small Turtles......Some of the other Malayemys are bigger.......
 
AFRO-thunder;4654735; said:
Snail eaters are small turtles? The ones I've seen in Bangkok were massive. I didn't measure them, but the biggest females were about the size of a RES female and a lot bulkier.


It's also interesting to hear that red cheeks are in high demand in the US. In Europe most people want to get rid of them because once they start to lay eggs, they do it nearly monthly and one couple can get you 40+ hatchlings per year.
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The ones I was refering to its the kind Im familiar with, however I do know that a taxonomic review its going on with them and some are getting new names. And yes red cheeks are fortunatly very comon in Europe:D
 
Nice pancakes Eric, is it ture they are going to become "difficult" to find in the future?

I thought I've seen CB before...?
 
Michiba54;4657252; said:
Nice pancakes Eric, is it ture they are going to become "difficult" to find in the future?

I thought I've seen CB before...?
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It's going to take somebody who wants to lose money to try to bring them in again.........

Contrary to popular belief, Importing isn't a cheap way to do anything now-a-days.........And there's Politics involved with Pancakes.......The two mix together just about as well as oil and water........
 
Michiba54;4657252; said:
Nice pancakes Eric, is it ture they are going to become "difficult" to find in the future?

I thought I've seen CB before...?
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I would say that pancakes have a fair chance of becoming relativelly available in the future, even if by high prices, because they have been cb in some numbers now and the keys for their husbandry have been craked. As long as people have interest in them and keep on breeding them there is hope. Fingers crossed that they dont go the same way Homopus, Psammobates and a few others went...
 
coura;4657973; said:
I would say that pancakes have a fair chance of becoming relativelly available in the future, even if by high prices, because they have been cb in some numbers now and the keys for their husbandry have been craked. As long as people have interest in them and keep on breeding them there is hope. Fingers crossed that they dont go the same way Homopus, Psammobates and a few others went...
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They will be "Economically Viable", but they will never be mass produced, nor Imported in huge numbers........

Like I said, there are Politics involved in bringing them in from Africa, and they only lay one Egg at a time, with incubation lasting 6+ months.......They are fairly bullet proof, and popular with the kiddies. One of the species you can move without having to put much work in advertising them, but numbers will only be available to the people who keep their finger on the pulse of the Chelonian world........

I kept a group for me, and I will expand it every chance I get, but I'll be happy with a few Eggs a year to play with and make mini Pancakes.......
 
EricIvins;4657996; said:
They will be "Economically Viable", but they will never be mass produced, nor Imported in huge numbers........

Like I said, there are Politics involved in bringing them in from Africa, and they only lay one Egg at a time, with incubation lasting 6+ months.......They are fairly bullet proof, and popular with the kiddies. One of the species you can move without having to put much work in advertising them, but numbers will only be available to the people who keep their finger on the pulse of the Chelonian world........

I kept a group for me, and I will expand it every chance I get, but I'll be happy with a few Eggs a year to play with and make mini Pancakes.......
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Ahhh, that part I didn't know.
 
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