Guide
Practical matters of husbandry, care and breeding, how to record it all sensibly.
Switzerland & law
Hibernating a tortoise: winter rest in European tortoises Hibernating a tortoise: which species must hibernate, cold frame, cellar or fridge, temperature, weight checks and waking up. With sources.
Where the animal comes from: wild-caught, captive-bred, harmful breeding Three questions before you buy that shape the animal’s whole life — and how to check the answers.
Setting up a feeding plan: fewer notes, more overview How to record feedings so that intervals, refusals and the weight curve end up fitting together by themselves.
Recording weight: what matters in the curve Weigh regularly, weigh identically, and read the curve rather than the single value, that is how weight becomes a useful measure.
Understanding inheritance: what the morph calculator actually works out Recessive, dominant, intermediate and why several traits are multiplied.
