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Hey there I am new to the community and Just wanted to say Hi! these are my two babies, I have had them since they were a few weeks old. Abner and Abney, Of course I got the sexes wrong when they were babies, so the names are backwards, but it's to late now. I am also listing a picture of some babies that were shipped to me by mistake, and now I'm baby sitting for a few days. I am located in Charleston SC and would love to hear from tortoise lovers in the area.

Hey there!
I'm glad you found us too. It's not very crowded here, we need to make it more crowded so you are more than welcome to be here.
This is my baby.. I don't know where she came from she was found dumped out in the country in 2002 then .. I hate to tell this all the time but some jerk shot her with a gun. Luckily she was so pyramided that the bullets went through the pyramids so she's recovered nicely. Here's my baby's photo.

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PHRatz

Hey! I really love your cement block enclosure! My wife and I are purchasing 10 wooded acres and hope to build a house on it in the next few years. I would love to have a huge enclosure for my sulcatas but I doubt I will ever be able to afford one like yours.
p.s. I'm glad that tortoise found you, keep him safe.

>>Hey! I really love your cement block enclosure! My wife and I are purchasing 10 wooded acres and hope to build a house on it in the next few years. I would love to have a huge enclosure for my sulcatas but I doubt I will ever be able to afford one like yours.
>>p.s. I'm glad that tortoise found you, keep him safe.

Thank you! We love this cement block fence, really love it. Truth is we really couldn't afford it either lol but on the other hand our old fence was falling apart. We were going to have to do something about it no matter what because we also have a weenie dog & the dog must stay in too. One day this dog will be gone, but we'll want another.
We called every fence company in the area & got estimates all the while never even considering this type of fencing. Wood, metal, partial block with chainlink on top were all so expensive so we thought hey just for the heck of it let's get an estimate on an all cement block fence.
We couldn't believe it, it was actually lower priced than all the others! This is what we wanted in the first place & they quoted a lower price we nearly fainted. So here it is!

Since we got it the sulcata started basking in areas where she'd never done it before, I think this fence makes her feel safer than she did when we had fencing that she could see through.
Even though we've spent a bundle on the tortoise (sort of, like I said we needed a new fence anyway lol) we are so happy that we said yes we'll keep her. She's a wonderful pet!

btw my sister-in-law & her husband bought 11 wooded acres, paid for it then built a house. It's beautiful & so peaceful out there.. I hope yours turns out like theirs!
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PHRatz

Wow! What great pictures. The group gathered around the food is special. What are they eating? It looks like green peppers.

The babies are eating cleaned and diced cactus prickley pear pads. Now I have them on hay diced with turnip greens and calcium suppliment. In the top picture Abner and Abney are eating squash and green beans, but I have read on Sulcata Station that green beans are not good for sulcatas so now they just eat grasses, and diced cactus prickley pear pads, and squash, and turnip greens and Cudzu leaves.

you do not feed your sulcatas green beans all the time do you?
They are to high in protein.
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I am 15 years old and I have over 100 Turtles/Tortoises which 45 of those are different species!
Turtles are like potato chips, you can't have just one.