A while back I took in a pile of Cuora amboinensis from Animal Control from a Chinese food place. There was a male and a female in really bad shape (impacted, shell rot, worms ect.) that I was working on cleaning up to eventually breed them.

At the time the male didn't make it. I still have the female, and she's now, except for some rough patches of shell, pretty healthy. I'd like to find another male to eventually breed them. They don't seem to be very commonly sold as pets that I've seen, but this is the first time I've been looking to actually buy a turtle in a very very long time.

Anyway I left a message for a rescue group in Colorado, but according to their website they only ship Delta Dash which is stupid expensive, to airports only and a *gigantic* pain in the nuts. (I've never seen it be any better for smaller animals either) I'm going to see if I can convince them to ship UPS, but we'll see how that works out.

Either that or convince someone who lives in Colorado to ship 'em UPS instead.

Gee...I wonder who you are thinking of...hmmmm?

I found this breeder online saint_felony. Hope this helps. Ed

Paul Vander Schouw
Florida
chelidman@tampabay.rr.com

Thanks. Does he have a website. Searching on his name isn't giving me much in the way of info besides screen savers.

I found the breeders name at http://www.tortoisereserve.org/ the only contact info is his email and that he go's by the name Chelidman on several web forums. www.turtleforum.com and www.snakenecks.com to name two. Truly hope this out saint_felony.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhm, where in Colorado?

WYite

13941 Elmore Rd Longmont, CO 80504.

I was actually thinking of MC. I keep forgetting that Wyoming is super close too.

'Bout 75 miles. I'm lookin' at three weeks before I can get down there, though. I have weekend duty the next two weekends and can't be more than 50 miles from the plant in case of an emergency.

WYite

Damn I never even seen the bottom of your post...must of just skimmed it or something....We might be able to work something out but I have never shipped anything aquatic before.

These are boxies. They're only semi aquatic. Natively they hang in rice fields. You can ship 'em with good padding and moist paper towels. Not that it matters I talked to the director of the rescue and I'm not sure what the problem is, but they refuse to do anything but airport shipping. Let's see, animals to buy are between 30 to 50 bucks, and you want me to make make a donation of $55 per turtle and then pay at least $120 for shipping? At least I know why most of their animals are long term now.

Ed, Thanks. I tried contacting that dude you found, but he's got nothing right now. On the plus side though he knew of a pro baseball player that lives in South Jersey and breeds 'em. I talked to him, and if all works out I should have another male and female on friday.

Yes I'll take pictures. As I'm sure someone will ask.

Cool! Good news. Glad you found what you were looking for.

Yep, Glad to hear you found what you were looking for....no dawg i am not mocking you!

Glad to help saint_felony. Im looking forward to seeing some pics of the new couple. Best of luck to ya, Ed.