Well today as my hubby is on his way out the door to go out of town for the weekend, he tells me he found a tortoise on CL and made the arrangements for me to get him. Seeing how I have been telling that some day I would like to have a Torti. Well I really don't know a lot about them and have done research about them talked to a friend that knows a lot about turtles and tort's, but still feel really lost. I bought a book on them as well. THe people gave me this stuff called Turtle Vita shell and said that they would do it weekly on him. Should I continue to use it or stop and just toss it out. Here are pictures of him, NOTE the white on his shell is calcium powder that had gotten on his shell from the people I got him from not something else, also he is on paper towels only becuase there is a whole in the bottom of the tank and they had him on news paper and had no hide for him. I cut out the box for him and put the paper towles becuase I didn't have news paper and all the pet stores where closed by the time I had picked him up tonight. He didn't even have a water or food dish so I put in the small dessert plates for him to have some water and gave him some Romane (sp?) lettus and some spring mix ( 2 types of green leaf and a red leaf lettus no iceburg). Anyway here are the pictures.

http://www.ball-pythons.net/gallery/...1/9/tort_2.jpg

http://www.ball-pythons.net/gallery/...1/9/tort_1.jpg

http://www.ball-pythons.net/gallery/...1/9/tort_5.jpg

http://www.ball-pythons.net/gallery/...1/9/tort_7.jpg

Any info would be wonderful, just remember this was no my idea but am going to go with it. Just trying to do it the right way.