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Anyone here have experience with manouria impressas from Peninsular Malaysia? Would like to share observations and info.

Regards
hans

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I don't own any yet but do want to get a group someday so if anyone feels like posting how they care for them, problems, what works and doesn't I would also be very interested in reading!

Thanks

There are no legal imported impressa for the pet trade comming into the USA now.When you could get them they would DIE on you .Only a few in over 30yrs of imports ever lived for more than a few years at best.Their are a few zoos who have them.Zoo Atlanta and Ft.Worth Tx.ONE person in just the last couple of years has bred them and offered them to the public.They are NOTHING like their only other species of Manouria.Manouria emysI would consider them one of the hardes of all tortoises to adapt to captivity out of the wild. Be noble,defy their destiny bred them in captivity.Start with a CB baby,be a hero in 20years Vic Morgan

>>>There are no legal imported impressa for the pet trade comming into the USA now.When you could get them they would DIE on you .Only a few in over 30yrs of imports ever lived for more than a few years at best.Their are a few zoos who have them.Zoo Atlanta and Ft.Worth Tx.ONE person in just the last couple of years has bred them and offered them to the public.They are NOTHING like their only other species of Manouria.Manouria emysI would consider them one of the hardes of all tortoises to adapt to captivity out of the wild. Be noble,defy their destiny bred them in captivity.Start with a CB baby,be a hero in 20years Vic Morgan

impressa is not recorded from Malaysia; Myanmar through Vietnam and south to southern Cambodia, only in mountain areas. Under severe human pressure everywhere, so please don't support their decline by buying wc animals, which are very delicate anyway. I have 5 cb juveniles and they seem quite hardy so far, so long as you can provide oyster mushrooms and other non-greens foods.

I have 5 impressa which were CB in USA. The largest is a female hatched in 1996 which is close to 11" in length now. Also have 2 LTC WC males over 12" long which will hopefully breed with this female in the next couple of years. Have two smaller males among the 5 CB and am hoping the other two will be females. Trying to get a good CB program going with the species using this diverse gene pool group.

I have a cb pair of impressa that I picked up almost a year ago. I have hopes of adding a few more unrelated animals in the next couple of years. So, far they have been great to keep and eat a varied diet of oyster mushrooms, portabella, button, [bleep]ake, corn, collards, mustard greens, kale, sweet potatoes, tomato, squash, cantaloupe, berries, carrots, dandelions, pothos and hibiscus flowers. I am working on building them an outdoor pen for this spring and summer; I think the Knoxville weather is great for them. They are truely a great species and wonderful to work with.
Michael

Now I know they've gone overboard on the sensorship of this list when a mushroom is a bad word.

>>I have a cb pair of impressa that I picked up almost a year ago. I have hopes of adding a few more unrelated animals in the next couple of years. So, far they have been great to keep and eat a varied diet of oyster mushrooms, portabella, button, [bleep]ake, corn, collards, mustard greens, kale, sweet potatoes, tomato, squash, cantaloupe, berries, carrots, dandelions, pothos and hibiscus flowers. I am working on building them an outdoor pen for this spring and summer; I think the Knoxville weather is great for them. They are truely a great species and wonderful to work with.
>>Michael
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