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27-10-2007, 11:30 AM
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Can anyone help ID these little guys?
As it says...can any one ID them?
Had them about 18 months now, they were given to us as hatchlings and were a little bigger than £2 coin. They are now the size of the palm of my hand.          Thanks 
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27-10-2007, 11:34 AM
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Hi,
 They are Hermanni's Why did the person you got them from not tell you? if you don't me asking!!
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27-10-2007, 11:41 AM
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Hi,
There are 2 sub spieces; Testudo hermanni boettgeri vs. Testudo hermanni hermanni, I think yours is the Hermanni hermanni, but if you click on this link you can judge for your self!! Shelled Warriors :: View topic - Testudo hermanni boettgeri vs. Testudo hermanni hermanni
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27-10-2007, 11:44 AM
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27-10-2007, 12:15 PM
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Hi,
Oh, how sad!! sounds like they were wild caught! Are you you enjoying having them, i've got hermanns and i can't stop watching them, they are so much fun! If you didn't know what they were, that must of been hard working out how to take care of them!! Thank god for the internet info at the finger tips!!
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27-10-2007, 03:16 PM
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I'm not convinced that they are hermanns, could I see plastron (underside) please?
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Peter  Keeping: Testudo hermanni, Testudo graeca (graeca, ibera & nabeulensis) and Testudo horsfieldi 
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27-10-2007, 03:18 PM
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The last lot of pictures dont look hermann to me.
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Tortoise Keeper of: Red foots, Horsfields,Stars, Tunisians, Pancakes,Hermanns,Leopards and Iberas. www.shelledwarriors.co.uk SHELLED WARRIORS SHOP No1 for Seeds, Tables, UVB, Live food, Bowls, Heating etc NEW SHOP: www.shelledwarriorsshop.co.uk 3.9.10 Crested Geckos 20+ eggs cooking 1.1 chihuahua 4.14 leopard geckos 7 eggs cooking 1.1 fat tails 1.2 Bearded Dragon 22 eggs cooking
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27-10-2007, 04:12 PM
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Thanks everyone so far.
Ok, I'm pretty sure they arn't hermans as when we first got them we took them to a specialist vets to get them checked out, he told us that they were to small to ID at the time but he was sure they wern't a species of tortoise that you see normally for sale in the UK. Heres the underside of them both:  
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27-10-2007, 04:20 PM
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The vet you went to was not very specialised in tortoises. No tortoise is too small to ID.
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Tortoise Keeper of: Red foots, Horsfields,Stars, Tunisians, Pancakes,Hermanns,Leopards and Iberas. www.shelledwarriors.co.uk SHELLED WARRIORS SHOP No1 for Seeds, Tables, UVB, Live food, Bowls, Heating etc NEW SHOP: www.shelledwarriorsshop.co.uk 3.9.10 Crested Geckos 20+ eggs cooking 1.1 chihuahua 4.14 leopard geckos 7 eggs cooking 1.1 fat tails 1.2 Bearded Dragon 22 eggs cooking
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