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Discussion time.

Some individuals have expressed a desire to see the "tortoise" forum broken down into additional forums. This is not a decision to be made lightly. Many factors come into play when there is a need to expand the lineup.

Currently I have two working options.

Working Option One:
*General Tortoise Forum
*Old World Species (Europe, Africa, Asia)
*New World Species (N/C/S America)

Option Two:
*General Tortoise Forum
*Giant Tortoise Forum (galap, sulcata, aldabra, etc.)

I am willing to entertain suggestions from you for other possible catagory breakdowns besides those two working options. These need to be logical choices please and not wishful thinking. The amount of traffic, the target audience, and the type of topics/species being discussed on the tortoise forum are important factors on what will be useable and what will not be. As much as some folks would love to see a galap only forum, the addition of a single species forum is not possible at this time (though if there was the logical choice would likely be a forum for sulcatas).

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Adam
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0.0 African Sidenecked, 0.1 Redfoot, 0.1 Sulcatta, 1.0 Western Hognose, 1.0 Crested Gecko, 0.1 Mali Uromastyx

The way the forum is now helps people in selecting Torts, and it just makes life easier when you have a few different breeds.

to the point where we have our own list and we can talk to ourselves in peace.
Sorry, touchy point.
You all should realize that when the net started there was a hand full of good lists that had some dynamite conversations on them. Then 'attitude' took over and we needed lists for only what 'I' wanted to talk about. This not only included different species but different ideas also. There is no way you can truely learn in a polarized environment. That's like reading every other page of 'the hobbit'... it tends to loose a great deal.
More to the point... leave it alone.
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I have in the past advocated a division based on enviroment and therefore husbandry conditions so as to make one group of "forest tortoises" and another group of "desert/grassland" tortoises.
But as the i read through the posts i see that many people who come to these for a for the first time would likely not know the disctinctions.
Others who are well informed often have a few species and may have knowledge about both caetgories. plus this division leaves some ambiguiy (gopherus and the chacos)

So though it might help to clear up the much husbandry confusion about "tortoises" (for example, why some torts need fruit and animal protein whereas other species should never have either), i think its probably best to leave it alone.

With that said i don't see how the other two possible divisions suggested help people identify their animals either. Many don't know how big their tiny sulcata will get. And dividing up the tortoises by locality does not reduce the problems associated with the fact that many parts of the world harbor forest prone tortoises as well as desert prone tortoiese whose care, are, of course, totally different.

Though there is no question that more people have geochelone sulcata than other torts so maybe a forum devoted to them (in analogy to the RES forum would be useful)

All of this i would gladly take back however, if the description of the forum could mention specific species so that users would know at a glance if the forum was right for them. In such a case i would be in favor of any proposed division.

Don't fix it.

Even though I might not own a sulcata or leopard, it's sometime good to read about them here.

I think a separate sulcata forum would be better.

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Instead of Galop, sulcata, aldalbra forum, can we keep it to galap, aldabra? as sulcata's are so different then the other two and care for aldabra's and galaps is identical and different than sulcata's. I have spoken to a few galap owners across the USA and one fellow in spain, and they are very interersted.