Rare & Exotic

High Color Red-footed Tortoises (Geochelone carbonaria)

CATEGORY: Starter Tortoise [?]

If you keep breeding for the best color, producing a very pretty tortoise is possible. Do that for several generations, over many years, and some of your offspring can turn... >>

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Possible Hybrid/ High Color Yellow-Foots (Geochelone denticulata ? X carbonaria)

CATEGORY: Starter Tortoise [?]

These tortoises were produced from a well established breeding group of both Red-foots and Yellow-foots. They are either a very unique color phase of Yellow-foots, or may ... >>

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Indian Star Tortoises (Geochelone Elegans)

CATEGORY: Intermediate Tortoise [?]

Indian Star Tortoises are at very the top of tortoise keeping the world over. The stunning beauty of their radiating star patterns is best understood by placing one in t... >>

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Elongated Tortoises (Inditestudo elongata)

CATEGORY: Intermediate [?]

Elongated Tortoises are found in tropical forests, high in the hills and plateaus of Northeastern India, Bangladesh, Burma and Thailand south to Malaysia. Although Elongate... >>

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High Yellow Forstens Tortoise (Indotestudo forsteni)

CATEGORY: Intermediate [?]

These two exceptionally colored juveniles hatched out with a very brightly colored shell and skin. Their high yellow coloration is the opposite of the normal black or mahog... >>

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Cherry Head Red Footed Tortoises (Geochelone Carbonaria)

CATEGORY: Starter Tortoise [?]

Cherry Headed Red Footed Tortoises are a very pretty, slightly smaller version of the classic Red Footed Tortoise. Their head and leg scales are often bright red or orange... >>

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Aldabra Tortoise (Geochelone gigantea)

CATEGORY: Advanced Tortoise [?]

Aldabra tortoises, Geochelone gigantea (meaning "huge land turtle") are the world's second largest living tortoise species. Found only in the Indian Ocean, on the coral- li... >>

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Radiated Tortoise (Geochelone radiata)

CATEGORY: Advanced Tortoise [?]

Found only in the woodlands, dry scrub and thorn brush of the Antandroy Territory, in southern Madigascar, the Radiated Tortoise is one of the world's rarest. This species ... >>

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Grenada Island Red Footed Tortoises (Geochelone carbonaria)

CATEGORY: Starter [?]

Grenada Island Red Footed Tortoises are a smaller race of Red footed Tortoises that have developed on the island of Grenada. In addition to staying smaller as adults, Gren... >>

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Madigascar Flat Shelled Spider Tortoise (Pyxis planicauda)

CATEGORY: Advanced [?]

The Madigascar Flat Shelled Spider Tortoise, Pyxis planicauda, is only found in the deciduous forests and woodlands of the south western coast of Madigascar, and is one of th... >>

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Blonde Red Footed Tortoises (Geochelone carbonaria)

CATEGORY: Starter [?]

Blonde Red Footed Tortoises are the result of two generations of breeding for light color - and some good luck... We get only a few of these each year to offer. They have v... >>

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Black Red Footed Tortoise (Geochelone carbonaria)

CATEGORY: Starter [?]

One Black Red Footed Tortoise hatched from an egg produced by very light colored parents - suggesting some sort of genetic anomaly occurred. We've seen dark red foots befo... >>

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Honey Colored Red Footed Tortoise (Geochelone carbonaria)

CATEGORY: Starter [?]

This pretty tortoise hatched from our group of high colored adults. It's shell is a golden honey color - even the growth lines are turning the same honey brown that it was... >>

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Ghost Red Footed Tortoise (Geochelone carbonaria)

CATEGORY: Starter [?]

This very light shelled tortoise hatched from our group of high colored adults. It's shell is a faded whitish blue color - it's growth lines are coming in brown instead o... >>

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High Yellow Indian Star Tortoises (Geochelone Elegans)

CATEGORY: Intermediate Tortoise [?]

When you breed very pretty adult Indian Star Tortoises, every so often a clutch of high yellow hatchlings pops up. These two hatched out just over four months ago, and have... >>

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One Of A Kind Sulcatta Tortoise (Sulcatta tortoises ( Geochelone sulcata ))

CATEGORY: Starter Tortoise [?]

Three months ago this remarkable tortoise hatched from a normal clutch of eggs. It's extraordinary shell and markings are almost perfectly symmetrical. You have to look twi... >>

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Chocolate Colored Red Footed Tortoise (Geochelone carbonaria)

CATEGORY: Starter [?]

A one of a kind Red Footed Tortoise produced by our colony of high colored adults. The shell is a chocolate color brown color with orange/yellow highlights. It's growth lin... >>

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Black Yellow-Footed Tortoise (Geochelone denticulata)

CATEGORY: Intermediate [?]

Produced from a group of brightly colored adults, this very dark Yellow Footed Tortoise stands out from the rest. Pictured with a normal colored yellow footed tortoise, it'... >>

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Burmese Brown Mountain Tortoise (Manouria emys emys)

CATEGORY: Intermediate Tortoise [?]

The Burmese Brown Mountain Tortoise (Manouria emys emys), is a very handsome tropical tortoise from the rainforests and moist woodlands of southern Thailand, Malaysia, Sum... >>

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Burmese Black Mountain Tortoise (Manouria emys phayrei)

CATEGORY: Intermediate Tortoise [?]

The Burmese Black Mountain Tortoise (Manouria emys phayrei), is a very handsome, high domed tropical tortoise from the highland monsoon forests and moist woodlands of Burm... >>

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Indian Star Tortoises: Four - Five Year Olds (Geochelone Elegans)

CATEGORY: Intermediate Tortoise [?]

We have a very nice group of four to five year old, Indian Star Tortoises. This is the perfect pet size at 4 - 4.5 inches. All the hard work of raising a hatchling has alr... >>

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Burmese Star Tortoise (Geochelone platynota)

CATEGORY: Intermediate Tortoise [?]

The rarest of all the star tortoises, the Burmese Star Tortoise is found only in Burma, and it's numbers have suffered greatly do to over collection for food. In the wild,... >>

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Malagasy Spider Tortoise (Pyxis arachnoides arachnoides)

CATEGORY: Advanced Tortoise [?]

The Malagasy Spider Tortoise (pyxis arachnoides) , is only found in the deciduous forests and woodlands of southern coastal Madigascar, and is one of the world's rarest torto... >>

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Forstens Tortoise (Indotestudo forsteni)

CATEGORY: Starter [?]

The Forsten's Tortoise (Indotestudo forsteni) is found in the damp forests of the Indonesian Islands of Sulawasi and Halmahera. Sometimes called the Sulawesi Tortoise, the ... >>

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Ivory Cherry Head Red Footed Tortoise (Geochelone Carbonaria)

CATEGORY: Starter [?]

Just like with Ivory Leopard Tortoises, if you raise Red Foots indoors, every once in a while the growth lines will come in - in a very pretty white pattern. This Cherry H... >>

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Bolivian Cherry Headed Red Footed Tortoises: (Geochelone Carbonaria)

CATEGORY: Starter [?]

Bolivian Cherry Headed Red Footed Tortoises are closely related to the Cherry Heads from Paraguay. Found in the Bolivian Chaco, and originally brought to the US in the 1980... >>

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Travencore, Elongated Hybrid Tortoises (Indotestudo travencorica X elongata)

CATEGORY: Intermediate Tortoise [?]

With a shortage of males in our Elongated colony some years ago, we decided to put a particularly active male Travencore in the pen. Two female hybrid Travencore/Elongated... >>

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Travancore Tortoise (Indotestudo travencorica)

CATEGORY: Intermediate Tortoise [?]

One of the rarest tortoises bred in captivity, Travencore Tortoises (Indotestudo travancorica) are only found in the limited hill country of south western India. Their hab... >>

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African Pancake Tortoise (Malacochersus tornieri)

CATEGORY: Starter [?]

* Description coming soon *... >>

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Sri Lankan Star Tortoises (Geochelone Elegans)

CATEGORY: Advanced Tortoise [?]

This subspecies of the Indian Star Tortoise is found only in Sri Lanka. The largest of the three subspecies, Sri Lankan Star tortoises have the most yellow coloration throu... >>

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One Of A Kind Red Footed Tortoise (Geochelone carbonaria)

CATEGORY: Starter Tortoise [?]

In November of 2008, this unique tortoise hatched from a normal clutch of Red Footed tortoise eggs. With remarkable shell markings that are almost completely symmetrical, ... >>

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Aldabra Tortoise: Hatchlings (Geochelone gigantea)

CATEGORY: Advanced [?]

Many years of working with this species has finally paid off. Not normally available at this size, these April Hatchlings are a "fit in your hand" version of the world's l... >>

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Amazon Basin Yellow Footed Tortoises (Geochelone denticulata)

CATEGORY: Intermediate Tortoise [?]

Amazon Basin Yellow Foots are the giants of all the South American tortoises. Normal adult Yellow Foots rarely exceed 16 inches - these massive tortoises can grow to 32 inc... >>

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Kleinman's Tortoise (Testudo kleinmanni)

CATEGORY: Intermediate Tortoise [?]

Once a very common tortoise, Kleinmann's tortoises are now one of the hardest to find anywhere. Found only on the Nile Delta and the Sinai Desert of Egypt, Klienmann's tort... >>

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High White Leopard Tortoise (Geochelone pardalis)

CATEGORY: Intermediate Tortoise [?]

We held back and bred for lighter and lighter colored Leopard Tortoises over many generations. Here's the result: a small group of Leopards with no spots, no mahoganies or ... >>

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Sri Lankan Star Tortoises: 2 - 3 Year Olds (Geochelone Elegans)

CATEGORY: Advanced Tortoise [?]

We have a very nice 2 and a half year old, female Sri Lankan Star Tortoise. At 190 grams and just over 4 inches, this young female is a nice future breeder. She tortoise wa... >>

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Aberrant Leopard Tortoises (Geochelone pardalis)

CATEGORY: Intermediate Tortoise [?]

These two striking Leopard Tortoises unexpectedly hatched from a small clutch of normal colored Leopard Tortoises this past July. Their remarkable shell patterns are unique... >>

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