With three-toed domestic turtles becoming harder to come by, we find
our turtle and tortoise base expanding into other species.
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Two-inch sulcatas are very tippable.
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Here's a 4-incher that managed to turn over.
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You'd think he's too big to flip over accidently, but he needed
help.
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Back on his belly.
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Yellow-footed tortoise. Similar.
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Yellow-footed tortoises can eat a more nutritious diet.
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Here's a three-toe one of our customers caught on vacation.
Not common lately.
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Three-toes resting in the grass are hard to spot.
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When they start trucking, you can spot them easily.
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They show up very well over a neutral substrate.
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Not the same guy. Probably the ugliest three-toed box turtle
I've ever seen.
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Whoops. Here's another candidate in the ugliest thee-toe
competion.
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Easily "cured" with a pair of side cutters. She could not
close her shell before.
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Aldabra tortoise -- somewhere over 200 pounds. Grass eaters at
our local zoo.
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Very similar in the face to most tortoises.
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Pair of sulcatas making little sulcatas.
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14-inch sulcata tortoise.
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Same guy consuming dandelions.
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4-inch sulcatas chowing on duckweed.
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Sideneck turtles nearly always look broken.
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Sideneck turtle taking it easy. Some species have very long
necks.
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Different sideneck specie.
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Sidenecks, like all turtles, are great fish catchers.
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Down the hatch.
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Leopard, sulcata, and Greek tortoises doing lunch together.
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Greek tortoises enjoy an occasional green grape.
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Newly arrived sideneck not trusting anybody.
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Short toenails usually denote a female.
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We soak her in warm water to refresh her after her long journey.
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She was hungry but she's "turning up her nose" at her third goldfish.
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Still not trusting us -- even after her light lunch..
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3-Inch snapping turtle.
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Just a reminder that these guys can snake around and nail you.
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Western painted under the four-inch rule. Cute.
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Everybody likes little turtles.
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Too bad we can't sell them at thiis size.
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2-inch soft shell turtle.
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Same guy. We're baby sitting him.
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