2008년 11월 21일 금요일

May they live long healthy and happy!

Larry was ill, so I took out all of Larry's tankmates and fed Larry alone. These are my young kids who I wish long lives.
This was before I took him to a vet. I put him in a bowl so to see how he was.
My northern Diamondback Terrapin. I thank her for never bothering her tankmates.
Now I got to believe that this one is a male. His eye is gradually darkening.
You can tell maleness by the tail.

2008년 10월 17일 금요일

Larry being on the cure~

His a eye has been in part layed with thin flim lately and his under-lip skin seem to have wounded.
So, he lost his appetite little bit these days.
I put some reptile medicine on the wounds.
I fed him slices of porks to recover his appetite.
I'm really glad that he's gorging on them.
He's is exhilarating, always showing his curiosity.
Camera-loving as always been!

2008년 10월 15일 수요일

Time to change her(his) name?

What about the eyes.
They seem to have been blacked at least in a different tone from the female's.
I really like her(his) oval shaped carapace.
We can get a closer look at her(his) tail.
What do you think?
Is it female's like everybody thought before or the proof that everybody was wrong?

Still confusing if she is a male~

You know, I named her "Maria" in the first place.

Why have I always been confused if she was male?
Since many people agreed that the tail distance from the plastron was females, I have been keeping her with females.

But one day, she was climbing on other females in a mating stance.

I really was interested, thinking this one might've been a male.

From the moment right on, I put her with males and no male seems to have courted her.

Now, I'm getting a feeling that I have to start call this one not her but him.

Well, from this angle, the tail seems thick enough of male.
She(He) is always very actively moving around, it always takes quite an effort to get her(his) whole body in a picture.
When I posted the picture of her tail location off plastron a couple of years ago, everybody said that it just looked like female's.
If she(he) has a round eyes.
The eyes seem to have been blackened, haven't they? Which is the distinctive sign of a male.

2008년 8월 6일 수요일

The Stallion

Look at his tail! The length and thickness epitomize the fertility very well.

To breed up new babies, this could be the perfect male.

He impregantes the females ones better than other males I've ever seen.
Behind all male dominant character, he has innocent eyes.
I like the way his carapace is convexed.

Her tail has been bealed but still wish it would grow back a bit longer...

She's grown recognizably. One proof is that she used to pass through the holes on the sides of the log, now she can't. One day, she got stuck in there, so my mother pull her out.
I always like her long carapace. If not her tail was nipped off, it would've been perfectly balancedly slim feature.
She is very tamed and always very curious.
I'm fond of her because she is very feminine.
I always feel a deep affection for her. because her mildness incurred her tail nipped off more by constantly courting strong a male than other females.

A Bachelor

He's doing fine but looks little bit lonely.
When I have proper setting for breeding, he will play the role as a stallion.