Lots of people easily mistaken a Moroccan tortoise as a Moroccan greek tortoise. Its pretty simple to realize why. The scientific name is Testudo greaca marokkensis. The funny thing is, they aren’t even from Greece, they are native to Northern Africa. They are distinctly different than Greek tortoises. The babies are super unique looking as […]
Some of our baby Egyptian eggs are starting to hatch. I was hoping these would be instahatch eggs and hatch in some lucky person’s incubator. This Egyptian egg was laid on 5/9/19. It piped on 7/31/19 and slowly is emerging at a tortoise’s pace. This little tortoise weighs around 4 grams.
The 100th instahatch egg was an Egyptian tortoise egg!!! It was shipped to Gainsville, Florida, 1,000 miles away. It was laid on 4/20/19, shipped on 6/27/19, delivered on 6/28/19, and started to hatch later that afternoon. It is doing fantastic and is super active.
Instahatch egg #83 was laid on 4/6/19, shipped to Tulsa, Oklahoma on 6/3/19, delivered on 6/4/19 and started to hatch on 6/22/19. 18 days after delivery. Talk about a stressful few weeks. I was confident that it was going to hatch because the customer kept sending me updates of candling pictures and it was progressing […]
#86 is a Marginated tortoise. It was laid 4/17/19, shipped to Albany, California on 6/17/19 (2,490 miles away), delivered on 6/18/19, and hatched on 6/20/19. It was so full of energy it climbed out of its deli cup!!!!!!