Getting ready to hibernate my tortoises. They go into the garage fridge (4 males and 5 females) for three months. During this time the temperature is at 40 defrees f and they do not eat,drink or really move. The picture is the individual boxes that they will be in for the next three months.

Picture 1. Ten different babies from the three i showed before hatched this year
Picture 2&3 My females Testudo hermanni hercegovinensis (smaller sub species of Testudo Hermanni Boettgeri)
Picture 4 My females Testudo Hermanni Boettgeri (The female on the left was wild caught and if u look closely u can see fire damage on the top of her shell. Basically she didnt dig down deep enough during a wild fire.)

Those are awesome!

I think it's so cool that you have to artificially hibernate them come winter... that's so nifty!

I x-rayed my tortoises today like i do every year to make sure none of the females are holding eggs before they go into hibernation and this is what i found.

Why? Are you looking to buy one?

I like it hot. I hate cold weather.

I'm amazed that you have to go through all of that for tortoises. I think that would prevent me from starting that hobby.

Again, that's amazing. Do you take them to the vet for those x-rays?

omfg those tortoise's are so damn adorable!!



oh and smoothZ, if by buying one you mean a hot wheels or matchbox then yes, i'll buy one :)

ok so little update on the housing in my terrarium..man do i wish i had a bigger tank lol.. but yeah, added a second hiding spot for Leo one in the warm, one in the cooler side. hope he likes it :)

http://i742.photobucket.com/albums/x...0/IMG_0598.jpg
http://i742.photobucket.com/albums/x...0/IMG_0597.jpg
http://i742.photobucket.com/albums/x...0/IMG_0596.jpg
http://i742.photobucket.com/albums/x...0/IMG_0595.jpg

sorry for bad quality, only got my phone to take pics :-/

^ thats a cool little home Dan

Thanks jeff :) idk if it's a matter of just being slow, lol, but that little box took me an hour and a half to make lol, it's alllll custom ;) lol i found a box and cut it up a a lot of times and came out to be a pretty nice 2nd home for him... i had done some research and a lot of people say it's good for them to have two hiding places, more secure or something like that, so i decided to make a lil project :D



omg so as i was typing this i look over and he's in it! i think he likes his new homeee

http://i742.photobucket.com/albums/x...0/IMG_0599.jpg



p.s. yes that's a red light, it's sleepy time haha

My wife picked up a female Panther Chameleon for future breeding endeavors with our blue male (and for a cute pet).

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...t/DSC01508.jpg

She's around 6 months old - we bought her locally after watching her grow up at our favorite local exotic pet shop ... been watching her grow since she was the size of a peanut M&M. :) She's a Blue-Barred Ambilobe variety so we're hoping to produce some hybrids that are orange/red + green with blue/purple bars. It's definitely the most popular hybrid combination!

holy...crap...she's beautiful!!! nice pick up dude, shes awesome