Star Tortoises

[TylerStewart]

I've been meaning to take some photos of my star tortoises, and finally got around to it today. I didn't spend much time, but these have got to be the most amazing looking tortoises I have seen. I picked up the smaller 3 at the Pomona show. The lower photo is of two of them from below (almost looks better than from above).

 

[Ryan Jarosek]

Man they are beautiful, They almost look like something that was hand made. The last picture looks like a couple of masks. Very nice.

 

[ponders]

Hey Tyler,
They are very pretty and interesting. Almost look like inlaid wood turtle sculptures. How big do they get?

 

[Kat77]

Wow, they are so beautiful! Nature creates such amazing patterns.

 

[AncientCritters]

Nice Stars Tyler. I have a pair of Sri Lanken Stars. My big girl is 10 inches and the males is about 5.5-6 inches. I've had them for about 6 years now.

 

[TylerStewart]

Thanks, glad you like them. Very nice torts, Ancient. Have they bred for you at all? The stars don't get very big - the Sri Lankans get a little bigger than the ones I have, but generally 10-11" is a good sized female, with males a little smaller. I'm still hoping to expand with another 4-8 of these. The breeding is slow (small clutches) and they're somewhat of a fragile tortoise (from what I understand), but I'm gonna give it a go and see what happens. The two that I think are females that I have are probably still a few years too young to breed yet, and I'll probably sell off one or two of the males.

 

[AncientCritters]

Hey Tyler- They have bred here the last four years. I understand they have bred for the previous owner for about 5 years before they got here. They needed a couple of years to get acclimated to Cali weather coming from New york. I usually get her to double clutch so I get about 8-10 babies a year from her. Good luck woth yours. There's nothing prettier than a baby star.