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Posted by: bradtort at Mon Feb 25 08:13:50 2008   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by bradtort ]  
   

I started with russian tortoises from 2 sources:



1) Purchased from reptile shop where owner was a veterinarian who inspected and wormed the animals.



2) Adopted from herp society. Animals looked healthy.



From these I was able to set up a breeding group for about 5 years. I then decided to get out of breeding tortoises and now I have just 2 animals left. Both are the last captive bred animals from my original stock.



So it is possible to do well with wildcaught animals.



I recommend adopting first, unless you can find captive bred animals. Adoption doesn't encourage removing more animals from the wild. Look the animals over. Look for runny noses, shell rot, signs of diarrhea, etc.



Good luck!

   

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