20-11-18, 03:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 20-11-18, 03:57 PM by tommyardin.)
[size=1em]I put our 3, 6 year old tortoises in the fridge for the next 4 months LOL! :eek :eek :eek < that's what they thought.[/size]
[size=1em]Its the safest way to hibernate them, fridge is set at 5 degrees C, apparently its the best temperature for them.[/size]
[size=1em]We have had these little buggers for 6 years now, they were the size of a 50 pence piece when we bought them, my daughters silly idea, 100 quid each :eek .[/size]
[size=1em]They have been fun to own though, sounds daft but they recognise members of the family and come up to you and climb over your feet when you go into their pen. They also [/size][size=1em]will take food from your fingers, one of the little sods bite me one day while i was hand feeding then, how bloody painful, they have a beak like a parrot but a jaw bite about 4 times as strong. left me with skin scrapped off when I snatched my hand away and also a black blood blister type pinch, little f--ker.[/size]
But in all fairness to him it was an accident and never bite before or since.
[size=1em]T[/size][size=1em]hey are between 6.5 and 7 inches long now, See picture of their winter residence, they even have a bedside light LOL! But only works when the door is open.[/size][size=1em]Was told by the breeder that we purchased them from, you have not been able to legally buy from abroad for years now because of import rules passed by Defra. Apparently hundreds and thousands of them suffocated or were crushed during import into this country over the years, often 80 to 100 tortoises in hessian sacks. with 25% losses being nothing unusual.[/size][size=1em]Hence you can only [/size]legally [size=1em]buy from UK breeders. They are 'Hermans' Mediterranean Torts and can live for up to 100 years some examples have reached 120, little buggers are going to around longer than me. Named 'Mr Darcy' and 'Mr Bingly' from [/size]Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, that will be wife and daughter naming them, the third one is called 'Veyron' wonder who named him? :rolleyes but in all honesty he is the fastest.
[size=1em]Its the safest way to hibernate them, fridge is set at 5 degrees C, apparently its the best temperature for them.[/size]
[size=1em]We have had these little buggers for 6 years now, they were the size of a 50 pence piece when we bought them, my daughters silly idea, 100 quid each :eek .[/size]
[size=1em]They have been fun to own though, sounds daft but they recognise members of the family and come up to you and climb over your feet when you go into their pen. They also [/size][size=1em]will take food from your fingers, one of the little sods bite me one day while i was hand feeding then, how bloody painful, they have a beak like a parrot but a jaw bite about 4 times as strong. left me with skin scrapped off when I snatched my hand away and also a black blood blister type pinch, little f--ker.[/size]
But in all fairness to him it was an accident and never bite before or since.
[size=1em]T[/size][size=1em]hey are between 6.5 and 7 inches long now, See picture of their winter residence, they even have a bedside light LOL! But only works when the door is open.[/size][size=1em]Was told by the breeder that we purchased them from, you have not been able to legally buy from abroad for years now because of import rules passed by Defra. Apparently hundreds and thousands of them suffocated or were crushed during import into this country over the years, often 80 to 100 tortoises in hessian sacks. with 25% losses being nothing unusual.[/size][size=1em]Hence you can only [/size]legally [size=1em]buy from UK breeders. They are 'Hermans' Mediterranean Torts and can live for up to 100 years some examples have reached 120, little buggers are going to around longer than me. Named 'Mr Darcy' and 'Mr Bingly' from [/size]Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, that will be wife and daughter naming them, the third one is called 'Veyron' wonder who named him? :rolleyes but in all honesty he is the fastest.