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there's a video at the link below. what a lovely guy -- you can tell he really loves his tortoises. bugs me that the girl in the video doesn't seem to care for them and could have dropped the baby -- then again, i'm also jealous that she got to visit!

"Brendon Grimshaw purchased the island for £8,000 in 1962 and set about making the island habitable. He did this with the help of one other man, Rene Antoine Lafortune….

Grimshaw and his friend planted sixteen-thousand trees, built 4.8 kilometers of nature paths, and brought and bred giant land tortoises, creating an island of incredible beauty now worth 34 million Euros. Apart from a wide variety of plant and bird life, the island is home to over 100 land tortoises….

After 20 years of persistence, Grimshaw and his assistant achieved their goal of making Moyenne Island a National Park in its own right, separate to that of the St. Anne marine park. Now known as the Moyenne Island National Park, it is the smallest national park in the world, harbouring more species per square foot than any other part of the world."
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THANKS for the post. I'm inspired to keep on keep'in on, and I dont feel so alone. Now if I can just get this Florida swamp land moved to the middle of the Ochen. Coolist tortoise enclosure I've EVER seen. See ya in Daytona kid. Make turtles not War. VM Lets share some tortoise enclosure pics. pic of my little Fl.swamp enclosures.

Well when you live in the city like me you won't be raising Aldabras on a Seychelle Island like this cool old 86 year old. Still wish he had NOT kissed that tortoise baby in the video--Here is my city friendly enclosure built to withstand the hawks that cruise above daily. I have a group of Red Foots and Elongated Tortoises that coexist together fine. In that group are a couple of Red Foot (twin) Sisters now 11 year old. These Girls lay consistently either the same day or within 3 or 4 days of one another. Just goes to show you even with small enclosures you can be successful and see some wild stuff happen. The two sisters are backed up next to one another doing their egg laying ritual in the middle pic..As Vic said "POST YOUR ENCLOSURE". later Rick

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Richard -amazoa-

"Changes in behavior occur when the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change."

Wow. Your enclosure is amazing and so are your red foot tortoises.

I see you got undergrowth growing everywhere... ARen't some of those leaves toxic to the tortoises?

Make no doubt about it, Its always a good idea to check into that sort of stuff before hand. But, getting a truthfull answer is doubtful, unless the person, or printed information has evadence. Heres mine, NO cronic illness and consistant reproduction for 23 years. But that is just me Ive been told the China berry tree frute has killed Mt.Tortoises. Mt.Torts eat Alacasia in Nature. Its kin to Elephant ears/Toro and is on every toxic plant list. I have seen them "sample a plant like a fern, never to eat it again. Theres no steral substrates in Nature. Mine also woof down Posion Ivy like a kid and cotton candy, but their poop will give you hives!!!!!! VM

You have great looking tortoises by the way. I've heard of an old lady who have had this Russian tortoise for years and years, and all it eats is the weed in the back yard with no problem...just like yours.

Well, mine also eat huge amounts of Collard greens, several other veggies and fruit along with Mazuri Tortoise chow. They are brousers like dear more than grazers like Cattle. They will eat fungus off the side of old dead trees and wild Mushroons. VM