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I have to disagree without being mean or questioning your desiscion.It has taken a very long time for him to get like that and the recovery process is just as slow if not more?Shame it had to end like this but at least you did your best.

looks like you need to design and build an exercise wheel for it???What a fatty!!

I would rather you get them Han`s than some skanky cat!Wouldn`t have a problem especially when you breed them for others so when the cats get the last one there are some of that species still on the planet?illegal but not imoral.

you don`t see fancy heat lamps and uv lights in the wild because they have natural sunlight and the ability to hibernate through the coldest parts of winter?your frogs may live or die but if they don`t get the necessaries to them their lives will not be long or healthy?

one teaspoon per 4.5 litres water(common salt)ie non iodised.

used to get heaps up north(akld) when I was kid,anywhere there was long grass wasteland etc.I have caught a few round here but only in a couple of places.

sounds more like urates?could be from the antibiotics which I have heard are pretty hard on their kidneys.Ask a reptile vet if you can find one?

i prefer to get them out in the sun as often and for as long as I can.They are living outside at the moment and have been since november(bd`s,wd`s)

also quite a big head on him(not sure if its just the angle in rthe pic?)but that is another male indicator.

at this time of year ambient temps should not be too hard to keep where you want?I would just suggest a cardboard carton with as low a wattage bulb you can get away with,maybe only at night if its hot as it has been,get hiom out in the sun if you can.The fact that its eaten is encouraging,I would for little and often.Hold back on the vitamins if you can get it to eat anything decent as I would say they may be too much for his weakened systems?get the breathing and eating/digestion going again and the rest should follow on?

does not sound good,I would be temptd to dispense with the water and just keep him in a humid warm invironment,put him in the water when you try to feed him only,this would be enough to keep him hydrated,otherwise just soak him now and then.Vitamins are all well and good but when they are that far gone they can be too much for the non functioning system to handle,bit of a catch 22?good luck.

pretty sure they can be traced back to orana park in chch when it first started and had some sort of financial difficulties ?At one time I think it was all but shut down?Believe it or not no one wanted them???(the leopard geckos)and Eric Fox(otorahanga kiwi house) took them to save them.A few went to Ti point and The akld Zoo had a few at one time.The numbers have been up and down but due to lack of temperature breeding knowledge/care no males were bred and all of a sudden there was only one breeding male.This is as I understand from what I have been told,some points may be not exact but happy to be corrected where necessary? Not to say other imports may or may not have happened by fair means or foul?

they are still growing and if they start producing eggs that will be it,they will never reach their full potential in terms of size.Clutch size will be compromised as well and they will have a shortened term of breeding and lifespan.Males maybe less so but not good for females to breed too young.

I think they may have been BLACK listed???

yes Broms and they have leopard torts.

where did you get the information that "she has her own reptiles"? we had scores of redears and unhatched eggs etc tested fro salmonella a few years back and all come negative.Just another person to know whos got what and where.I could see the benefits of this study to the hobby in general but doubt if it will ever translate in terms of new species or more bloodlines for importation.This sounds like the same chick that I agreed to let test my animals but never ever heard back from?

they are related and because there are two does not make them a pair?

alot to do with the food ammount and quality and the day length,mine are outside year round and I get very few eggs after the longest day.They lay every three weeks if fed well,mine start around labourweekend.

anyone on here keep and/or breeding these?I have three- toed and keen to find others with unrelated stock?pm`s welcome.

i got a big sack cheap from a bakery one time,now just go to the horse feed places?must be some around there,Kumeu has one I think?

go to farmlands or places like that with horse stuff,you can get a huge sack for $20 or so?lasts ages.

just found this ,In the red-eared slider turtle—like many turtles, alligators and crocodiles, and some lizards—the sex of a growing embryo is by the temperature at which it is incubated. Cooler temperatures cause an embryo to grow up as a male. For example, if eggs are incubated at 26.6°C, all eggs will be male. In contrast, if a clutch is incubated at 31°C, all eggs will be female. A 1:1 ratio is found at about 29.2°C. This effect is seen, it is thought, because higher temperatures speed the conversion of testosterone to estradiol. Embryos incubated at a warmer temperature are thus exposed to more estradiol during the critical period for sex determination, and they become female.

my understanding has been that cooler temps produce males and warmer for female?Can`t really say I have growen any out to full term myself but others have.Also willing to be corrected on this???

you might find it easier to get one of those kiset garden sheds and modify with netting /glass and shutters etc like LArt?

you sure you got those temps around the right way Alan??