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Posted by: emysbreeder at Sun Sep 10 15:24:08 2006 [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by emysbreeder ] Its quite common for the Russians that come in from the wild to be injected with a releasing hormone oxytocin witch makes them lay eggs.Thousands of them are treated like this every year when they come in gravid.They are considered captive"hatched'instead of captive born,indicating bred in captividy.They should be fine animals if cared for correctly before you get it.They also like to dig and live in a deep hole in winter.The soil in some places(N.Fl.for one) is bad for their shells and they will rot.Some people will keep them in a refrigerator at 50F for part of the year.Look at were they come from,"cold" as a ...well you know.I like these better [ Reply To This Message ] [ Subscribe to this Thread ] [ Show Entire Thread ] | ||
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