Shelled Friends

12/11/2024

A love affair that started twenty years ago. Thankfully, the love hasn't waned even one bit. If anything, it is stronger. Kwangtung river turtle, Mauremys nigricans, are a medium sized turtle species that is cold hardy.

12/11/2024

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Credit: Dinos and Comics

12/03/2024

This Tuesday, give the gift of community to a turtle guardian in your life. Gift them a TTPG membership.

Today is is Giving Tuesday! We hope you’ll join us in helping preserve turtles and tortoises through captive breeding and education. To everyone who gives throughout the year, whether its money, time or your voice - we appreciate you! Your donation is tax deductible and helps us support International Turtle and Tortoise week(educational packages are shipped out to students, scout troops, 4H clubs, etc), support our newly launched rescue program (CRP), foster student projects in classrooms/schools, helps us bring speakers over for the conference and so much more. Donate or join us here:
https://ttpg.org/membership.php

12/03/2024

Map Turtles and terrapins took a piece of my heart early on when I started keeping Turtles. They still make me smile every time I see one. This little one is a Texas map turtle and I am blessed to be able to care for it for a while.

12/03/2024

12/02/2024

Double treat this week. Join Anthony, Steve, and EmmaLee on Monday for Pondcast and then join James Badman, Russ Gurley, Anthony, and myself on Friday for TTPG 2024 Conference recap.

Pondcast Episode tomorrow night (Monday 12/2) at 7PM EST!

Anthony, EmmaLee, and Steve will meet to discuss the highs and lows of the past year for theTurtleRoom. We will also be giving out FREE giveaways to people who join us for this episode. Don't miss out!

12/02/2024

Check out this reptile tent assembly video from Dawson. The Reptile Tents are light weight and easy to assemble, and work well for small species of toetoises and other small reptiles.

Visit and check out the bio for the link to his YouTube channel.

11/30/2024

A North American gem, the Painted turtle. A cold hardy species that is colorful and stays small.

11/27/2024

You read that right. The first ever Shelled Friends Giveaway and I can't think of a better gift to send to one lucky follower. Here is your chance to win a soft cover copy of Turtle Preservation, the latest book from Russ Gurley and Anthony Pierlioni.

How do you win? Follow my Instagram account (https://www.instagram.com/shelledfriends77/), the TTPG Instagram account (https://www.instagram.com/ttpg_turtlesandtortoises/), subscribe to the TTPG YouTube channel (https://youtube.com/?si=21wwLHU82_FP6Slt), tag your friends in comments, and please email screenshots showing you completed these steps to [email protected].

A winner will be selected on December 6th during the TTPG monthly livestream event, which you can watch live on the TTPG YouTube channel. The draw will happen close to 6 pm PST.

NOTE: Entries are accepted until 5 pm PST on December 5th and open only to residents of the United States.

Happy holidays!

11/23/2024

Visiting the today? Stop by the Arizona Tortoise Compound booth and check out Danny Bowlin's Reptile tent. Be sure to say hi to Dawson ( ) who can tell you all about how to raise tortoises in the reptile tents.

11/23/2024

Visiting the today? Stop by our friends at Arizona Tortoise Compound and check out some of the awesome turtle species they have available.

11/23/2024

Visiting the today? Stop by our friends at and check out some of the awesome turtle species they have available.

11/02/2024

The New York Turtle & Tortoise Society
is pleased to present Seminar 2024
Saturday, November 9, 2024
Check-in 9:30 a.m.; Sessions 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Beczak Environmental Education Center
35 Alexander Street, Yonkers, New York Registration is now online; go to https://nytts.org/
nytts/sem2024.htm

Registration Deadlines:
Mail-in registration: Today, Saturday, November 2
Download and print mail-in registration form here:https://nytts.org/nytts/sem2024_flyer.pdf
Online registration: Wednesday, November 6
(Go directly to online registration here: https://nytts.org/forms/sem24reg.htm
Login with username:member / password: seminar2024 (lowercase only)

10/29/2024

I held back one of my "Ruby thread" Turtles, a hybrid of Kwangtung x Chinese Golden thread Turtles. Not going to lie, I love how it is turning out. And no, it wasn't an intentional pairing.

10/29/2024

Available to CA residents.

2025 Northern California Herpetological Society's Conservation Grants! Please feel free to share.

10/29/2024

I usually don't buy new pond plants this time of the year but couldn't pass the opportunity to raise some of these water lettuce. I mean, look at those roots!

10/23/2024

Off to its forever home, along with some goodies from