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Practical Care of Red-Eared Slider and Painted Turtles

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Complete guide for beginners

A comprehensive video guide, complete with booklet, explaining exactly how to set up high quality, safe and secure accommodation for these popular turtles. Introduced by A. C. Highfield (director of the Tortoise Trust), this highly informative program shows you how to choose and use filters, heating and lighting systems, how to install complete tank systems, and how to manage diet.

Practical Care of Mediterranean (Greek) Tortoises

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Vital information for all keepers of Greek tortoises

This excellent book and video combination pack provides insights into identifying different varieties of Mediterranean Testudo graeca, illustrates the natural habitats these animals are found in, and discusses their proper care and maintenance in captivity. It is an especially useful reference to have available when designing indoor and outdoor accommodation.

Practical Care of Leopard and Sulcata Tortoises

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One of our most popular video titles

A comprehensive booklet and video set providing full information on housing and feeding these very popular large tortoises. Good, solid, practical advice for the new keeper. Highly recommended.

Care, Breeding & Conservation of the Egyptian Tortoise, Testudo kleinmanni

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Includes unique wild habitat footage!

Essential information for all those interested in this diminutive species. Rare footage of actual Egyptian tortoise habitats, and fascinating behavior is shown in detail: male combat and reproduction, nesting, and hatchling care. Indoor and outdoor captive environments are also discussed and illustrated.

Introduction to the Tortoises of Southern Africa

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Rare species shown in their natural environments!

If you study or keep South African tortoises, this superb video is highly recommended, as it will introduce you to the actual habitats these species inhabit in nature. Includes unique footage of Leopard tortoises, Angulate tortoises, Geometric tortoises, Padlopers (Homopus species) and aquatic turtles of the region. Various habitats and eco-systems are discussed in detail, and some truly amazing behavior is shown in close-up! Spectacular habitats and spectacular tortoises in one amazing video!

Practical Care of the Russian Tortoise (Testudo horsfieldii)

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Top Seller!

Comprehensive booklet and video pack giving detailed information on the care of the popular Russian tortoise, Testudo horsfieldii. Lots of advice on creating indoor and outdoor accomodation, diet, etc.

Safer Hibernation Supplement

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Juvenile and American Box Turtle Hibernation

Designed to show how to hibernate young tortoises and American box turtles safely.

Making & Using Incubators

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Video guide to construction and use

How to design, build, choose and use tortoise egg incubators.

Feeding Your Tortoise

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New Dimensions in Dietary Management

How habitat and environment affect dietary needs. How to design effective and safe diets in captivity (we recommend that this video is used in conjunction with The Tortoise and Turtle Feeding Manual).

The Care of American Box Turtles

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Rescue, Rehabilitation and Captive Husbandry

Explains exactly how to set up optimum habitats for American box turtles (genus Terrapene) and goes into some detail as to the kind of health problems commonly enountered in rescued animals. Designed for vet techs and wildlife rehabilitators, as well as for keepers.

Care & Maintenance of Common Aquatic Turtles

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Making and Using Ponds, Tanks and Filters

Detailed information on choosing, installing and using various different kinds of filter to achieve maximum water quality; undergravel, canister, cartridge and pond filters and UV-C sterilizers, etc. Useful hints on how to make ponds from readily available materials. Various common species are shown, and their feeding and general care is discussed.

Keeping Tortoises as Pets

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A Complete Introduction for Beginners

Top Seller!

Well worth watching before you obtain a tortoise.... ideal if you are just thinking about taking up tortoise keeping. Provides a thorough introduction to the various species, and discusses their different environmental and nutritional needs. Could help prevent tragedies and avoidable veterinary costs! Highly recommended to all beginners.

Care & Maintenance of Popular Geckos

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Outstanding book and DVD combination!

Detailed instructions on how to maintain and breed many different species of gecko. Includes rare footage of wild gecko habitats, from rainforest to desert, how to set up vivariums, and nutritional management. Highly recommended!

Refrigerator Hibernation Techniques

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A step-by-step guide to using refrigerators for hibernating tortoises and semi-terrestrial turtles

The use of refrigerators to provide a stable temperature-controlled environment for the hibernation of Mediterranean tortoises and temperate semi-terrestrial turtles, such as American box turtles (Terrapene species) offers many advantages. This video, which comes with a separate printed guide-sheet, details how to prepare animals for hibernation, how to select and prepare boxes and substrates, how to set up and test refrigerators, and how to wake the tortoises up at the end of the hibernation period.

Weight: 200.00 g