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I'm still willing to track leopards. I have had several people provide their leopard tort info, but many have been resistant and very protective of their stock.

I am still hoping that people realize this can be useful (and interesting) to all of us that keep leopards.

I had set a limit of 10lbs or bigger with names, weight, length, and age, and state (and an email so that I could contact you) no addresses or phone numbers please. Now I am thinking that 5lbs might be a better lower limit.

Let me know if want to share what you have -

benawes@visi.com

Thanks,

Ben Awes
St. Paul, MN

just out of curiosity why the size limits anyway? why not track all sizes so that in 5 years we will see the early development growth as well as the rest of it?

kudos for the effort I track all of my own info monthly from baby on. I find it very interesting.

I set a lower limit so that I am not tracking 5000 torts. Thats the only reason. I agree that the info would be interesting and useful to many - I simply feared that I would never be able to track them all. Also, I imagine that a lot of breeders don't even know one tort from another until they get to a certain age and size if they keep them. I also was thinking that once they get to 5 or 10 lbs that people are seroius about them and be more consistant about providing info. Also, I am interested in how old these torts actually live in captivity and how big are they actually getting, and are there areas of the country where they are doing better than others?

Thanks for your question - do you have leopards?

Ben

those all sound like good ideas! yes I have one leopard but its a baby still I have had it about a year and he has done fairly well. I think they are slower to grow than sulcatas. but it will be a nice torts as he grows.