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they might be nesting in the lights etc?nice warm home at this time of year sounds good to me?

moisten your vermiculite 50/50 by weight with clean cool boiled water,it should clump together when squeezed by hand but not drip water,damp but not wet,if that makes sense?sit them on top half buried and put a damp paper towel over the top,cover with the lid and just float them as you are.Check weekly.if the paper is dry moisten it again,if not leave it till next time,should not need alot if any more moisture in such a place.depending on temp have had them out in 65 days but there is no set time,if they stay nice and white like a mushroom should be good,if they dry up and wither after 2 weeks or so no good.

i have mine(babies) in a 4 ft tank with a ceramic at one end over a couple of flatish rocks that warm up without getting too hot.Out in the garage which is just building paper then iron so it gets pretty cold in frosty times.Tried an extra one at the other end but it was too much,even so mine would be 30 plus under the ceramic if they want it,and they are always there after a good feed.The bigger ones get the good spots and are ready to go when the food arrives and get first pickings,back to the prime spot to digest....get bigger.Have the last 4 smaller ones on their own so they can get some catching up done.

they should hold the heat and radiate it out more evenly?as long as they don`t get too hot for your hand to touch as I read somewhere beardies can`t detect the heat via their bellies and could get burnt,thats why hot rocks are not recommended.

I could give you a good indication if I could hold it in my hand?

looks good,nice and fat,boy or girl?

best way is to check the water temp.Under 18 d`s they can`t digest the food properly and show little interest.The short day length has just as much as anything and alot will slow down regardless of temp.Males are more tolerant and active way lower than females as well.If they have warm water and cold air(as in chch)is not ideal and can lead to respiratory problems.

they must be out there,I have some good rocky ones but were on tanks when I bought them so don`t know their origin.Livingart has a good idea with all the digital techknology around these days should be able to get something good.Can`t do without it either,they will go spare trying to get through the glass.

sounds pretty good from Live art.Mine have no problem with the digestion of huge quantities of live food and various vegetable matter and no sand at all?Probably would be a good thing for their muscular development but still they won`t be getting any from me.

at $500 each my answer is.......yes!!!

you have it covered,saw the greyish flecked one at the Hastings warehouse the other day,some only seem to have the green?

have shied away from sand and use that grey flecked astro turf stuff,dosen`t look too bad and really easy to roll up and take outside and shake out,usually dry so not hard to do.Have seen tanks with sand and the proper reptile stuff is quite dear,also have heard of little ones picking up small stones etc and getting blocked up.

go out country and find some more?farm troughs,dams etc?even one of our local ponds in a park often has good numbers of daphnia,we get a brackish water shrimp here in huge numbers that would be good but not much help to you.Micro worms maybe ok to start them on?not much help once they get going if you have nothing else further down the track though?

with out huge quantites of live food you are pretty much wasting your time.I bred a swag years back and had good survival rates using daphnia,lucky for me had a really good farmers dam nearby that was chocker with them,got them going on those and then also at the time had a massive white worm culture and as they got bigger changed them onto these which would stay alive for long enough and wiggle on the bare tank bottoms.Thinned them out to seven tanks with 50 in each and started to runout of worms.......was abit of carnage for a while as I tried to change them onto finely chopped oxheart etc,by the time they realised it was food there was hardly any left with 4 legs!!They did grow back and some survived but the losses were huge,I wish you luck you will need it!

don`t worry about him,he`s getting on abit?plus he comes from wokka taaknee,you can hear the banjoes playing in the hills up there,I am told??

the waikato River was a cesspit or open sewer for the whole of the waikato long before there were any koi in it?The auckland acclimatisation society liberated the catfish there as well prior to any koi?Thats another story however.The likelihood of redeared turtles esablishing breeding populations in NZ is very slight and IMO unlikely.

not long at all,but I would suggest buy a fresh baby and feed it up well yourself otherwise you could pay good money for one that has been misfed and is stunted and will never reach what would have been its optimum size.

can`t see a problem myself?if they don`t want them released and you are recapturing them???end of problem what I would say.Not quite as easy as it sounds by the way to catch a wild turtle.

I use gisborne cockroachs as beardy food and they love them,don`t actually breed them but have hatched a few egg pods that I have found.we have a lot of gumtrees around here and they are thick out there!Have a brother in aussie that raises what they call wood roachs,they look the same size and shape but a different colour.they just keep them in plastic bins with a couple of egg cartons to hide in and feed them bran and grated carrot,have a band of vaseline around the lip so they don`t climbout.

never mind the prettier bit,they need a source of UV light to be able to metabolise the calcium in their diet for healthy shell and bone growth.You should get a reptile tube to fit your flourescent fitting and try to have it so they can get as close to it as possible,also they lose there effective ness pretty quick and should be replaced every 12 mths.

pretty much hit and miss,some are fine and just carryon like nothing has changed.Then there are the others where its like ww 3?I remember a really big female I got once ,had lived alone all its life of ten or so years,put it in with some others and it just went into attack mode,straight at anything that moved,really savage biting etc etc.This was cured by keeping it in a tank next to others,glass to glass,after a week or so back together....no problems.Just see what happens and keep an eye on them.

stick with the lettuce,flake foods etc will most likely lead to foul water.

probably ones that dickheads have got sick of and chucked in there.Maybe escapees could wander down there.They should survive ok if they have a bit of size and have time to aclimatize before their first winter.

is this a trick question?do you mean species or male/female?

just in the pen!!!