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Conservation and Education Since 1964

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CTTC Care and Health Information

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Care Sheets

  • Box turtle care sheet
  • Desert tortoise care sheet
  • Water turtle care sheet

General Husbandry

  • Heating with Pig Blankets
  • Egg Incubation
  • "Natural" Egg Incubation
  • Pens

Health and Wellness

  • Egg-binding
  • FAQs on turtle health — Veterinarians answer common questions
  • Hibernation
  • Hibernating desert tortoise hatchlings
  • Health tips for desert tortoises
  • Impaction in hatchling tortoises
  • Ingestion of Stones, Bones, Fossils, and Soil by Turtles
  • Poison plant fatality, case report
  • Mycoplasmosis and Respiratory Tract Disease in Tortoises Research Paper
  • Salmonella
  • Shell injuries
  • Upper Respiratory Tract Disease - Mycoplasma Specialist Professor Mary Brown Interviewed
  • Upper Respiratory Tract Disease by Elliot Jacobson
  • Upper Respiratory Tract Disease - An Update by Grace S. McLaughlin
  • Veterinarians who treat turtles and tortoises in California

Nutrition

  • TNT Tortoise Diet Information
  • Edible plants
  • Off-site nutrition links

Plants

  • Edible landscaping for tortoises
  • Growing plants for tortoise yards
  • Native plants for desert tortoises
  • Poisonous plants
  • Pond plants

Ponds

  • Mosquito Control / West Nile Virus
  • Pond building
  • Pond filtration systems

Turtle and Tortoise Conservation

  • Dr. Michael Klemens on conserving the world's turtles and tortoises
  • Dr. James Harding on box turtle exploitation in the pet trade
  • Dr. Kristin Berry on desert tortoise conservation
  • Saving the Desert Tortoise
  • Fort Irwin Expansion Information
  • West Mojave Plan Information Page

Legal Aspects

  • 4-inch regulations
  • Desert tortoise permit registration program — Permit to Possess Gopherus

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