New Ivory...Need Opinions

[Kesslers Kreatures]

That's one awesome animal dude, Congrats on the new addition

[Lucas339]

dang pat!! what else are you going to add to your collection??!?!?!?

nice pick up!!

[Patrick Long]

Leopard, really? -runs off to research-

Yes Indeed! Scour my fried, scour

WOW really!?
That's a VERY high white Leopard. Fantastic steal!

Yeah, I was most happy with the price for this guy...If I told ya, youd go like this

That's one awesome animal dude, Congrats on the new addition

Thanx broski.

dang pat!! what else are you going to add to your collection??!?!?!?

nice pick up!!

LOL. This was a whim, not a planned adventure.

[wafisherman]

It's not terrible, but not great either. How does he feel in the hand? Light or heavy? Think a sponge - one with a lot of water, the other with just a little. Same size, but one is heavy the other lighter. With torts, you want the solid heavy feel.

Is the shell nice and hard?

Get the diet right with a nice variety. I forget what they eat in the wild, but if they are like Sulcatas, you want a high fiber diet that includes hay grass.

Diet is linked to pyramiding.

Same for humidity. Be sure you have the right substrate and humdity levels. Include digging areas with moist substrate and\or a humid hide.

UVB is debatable, but most use it (and may play a role in the pyramiding as well). Natural sunlight in an outdoor enclosure would be idea.

Offer cuttlebone for calcium.

[Patrick Long]

Yeah Thanx. He will soon be on Mazuri. He is in an outside pen with night heat.

Solid as a rock, heavier than I would have first though, and his shell is extremely hard.

He eats like a monster, stomps like a monster, must be a monster!

[Boanerges]

Man he is cool!!!! I read somewhere that they are the 4th largest Tort. Is that correct???

[Patrick Long]

Hey Jeff, they are actually pretty small tortoises.

Maybe volley ball size. Nothing compared to Sulcatas, Burmese, or Galapagos.

[Patrick Long]

Hey Jeff, they are actually pretty small tortoises.

Maybe volley ball size. Nothing compared to Sulcatas, Burmese, or Galapagos.

A good friend informed me that they are INDEED the worlds 4th largest tortoise.

[Boanerges]

A good friend informed me that they are INDEED the worlds 4th largest tortoise.

Yeah, it was me - lol I thought I read it somewhere but I wasn't sure.

[Patrick Long]

I just imagined that there were more than 4 tortoises bigger than the Leopard...Huge size difference between the 4th and 3rd........