[SOLD!!] Ivory and het ivory sulcata tortoises (2023)

Individual 2023 ivories (with one "free" het while supplies last):

$800 with shipping included (if you do not want a free het for some reason, the price stays the same) (Square, CashApp, Zelle, or maybe Venmo)

Add an ivory (with a free het per ivory) to any non-group-rate order for an additional $700 each.

Group rates for ivories:
500 per ivory at a minimum order size of 5 ivories with free shipping if necessary.
Group rate payments will only be accepted via Zelle at distance or cash in person.
Group rates for ivories only come with free hets for as long as we have supply of hets.

Individual 2023 100% hets for ivory:

$225 each with shipping included (Square, CashApp, Zelle, or maybe Venmo)

Add a het (while available) to any non-group-rate order for an additional $150 each.

Group rates for hets:
80 per het at a minimum order size of 10 hets with shipping being an additional 100 regardless of the number of animals at or over 10 hets
Group rate payments will only be accepted via Zelle at distance or cash in person.

Paradox ivories:

Individual 2023 paradox ivories (these also come with a free ivory het if there are any available at the time of a paradox ivory purchase):

$2200 and up with shipping included, depending on payment method. More extensively marked ones will go for significantly more.


Fife line ivory sulcatas. The 2023 ivories and hets will be feeding on a wide variety of provided fare and live indoors (soaked daily as well). They do not leave my custody until their plastrons have sealed up and they are properly passing waste from digested food.

The photos provided in this ad show one of the ivory sires, one of the het for ivory dams nesting and laying, a side-profile of an ivory male to show the eye color, and some of this year's offspring hatching out.



Any buyer is expected to have done his/her research prior to making contact, as it shows intellectual investment in the well-being of the animal(s).

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TOS:

Shipping and LAG:

I ship via Reptile Express (which utilizes Fed-Ex). If there is adverse weather involved, we will wait for a safer shipping window as warranted. Contact me at nickolasanastasiou at yahoo dot com if you are interested in purchasing. I offer a live arrival guarantee if you are present to receive. If there is a DOA situation, I expect multiple hi-res photos adequately displaying the condition within an hour of receipt (and I may require the corpse/corpses to be sent back to me; you will be compensated for this if it happens). If there is a discrepancy in description, I expect to be made aware of it within the day it is received (in which case, I will issue you a full refund upon safe return of the animal/animals to me). Animals under 4" scl are not sold as pets. Contiguous 48 only (I actually can ship to HI or AK, but there may be additional costs involved that the buyer would have to cover).

Shipping is about $75 most of the time. Sometimes I save two bucks and sometimes I lose ten over the included number, so $75 is what I settle at for smaller animals. I suppose I could meet up with someone closer and chop the shipping off, but it would have to be a convenient location for me and I am ONLY chopping the shipping off for a meet-up. The distance you traverse has zero bearing on this cost reduction. Larger animals cost a heap more to ship, so that incorporated cost is steeper.

Contact:

Email me at nickolasanastasiou at yahoo dot com or nick_a@tortoisemorphs.com (which redirects to my Yahoo! account anyway) if you are interested in purchasing. I am usually busy between work, perhaps school, care for my menagerie, more work, family stuff, and yet more work, so email works best for me. Deal discussions are to be conducted through email. Since I use Fauna private messages for site-related communications, I am unlikely to respond to PMs about animals in my ads. It also implies the person either did not read or did not care about what was written.

Payment:

All non-local sale prices have shipping cost, packaging, and any miscellaneous fees/costs built in for buyer convenience except where otherwise indicated (usually for much larger individuals). What you see is what you get. Payment plans are no longer accepted. If only a portion of the total due is sent to me and I have not explicitly agreed to that, I reserve the right to refund you and refuse sale. If an offer is made and I accept it with a time frame involved for payment, a lapse of said time frame without any delivery of payment typically means the agreement has been invalidated (for example, if you say you are going to pay me [amount] on [date] and I agree to that, the deal is basically void if [date] passes and payment has not been sent) unless we both agree to the renegotiation of the payment window and there are no communication deficits.

Sexing:

Unsexed animals, probable sexes, and temp-sexed animals have no associated guarantees as to a specific sex. A probable male/female appears to be so at the time, but has not necessarily reached full maturity, so there is room for error. A TSF or TSM label is subject to the performance of accurate TSD and that is a shift of probability in favor of a particular sex (it often works out, but occasionally does not; such is the chance we all take). A guaranteed sex is, as stated, guaranteed. If an animal of guaranteed sex ends up revealing itself to be not of the purchased and explicitly declared sex (with sufficient evidence sent to me) down the road, it can be returned to me in a healthy state for a full refund (the general practice) or, if you are attached emotionally, we may be able to do a partial refund based on current market prices while you retain the animal.

Trades:

I prefer sales to trades in almost all cases. Not seeking trades at this time.

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Things we are not: a charity, a rescue, or a home for wayward tortoises that failed to make it big by venturing out West only to end up starring in tortoise mating documentaries.

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Additional website-y things:

www.tortoisemorphs.com
https://www.facebook.com/Tortoise-Mo...41664186211378

A paradox ivory emerged from this clutch. It is the second paradox ivory we have produced so far. Its ivory and het clutchmates are available above. I am willing to hear offers for this one.

Availability update:

As of 11Jun2023, inventory available is as follows:

2 paradox ivories (at close to 4" scl)

and

12 non-paradox ivories

and

10 hets

I have hatched some by-design TSFs this year. I had to sacrifice a good number of viable eggs to get a fraction of those viable eggs to hatch, as hard-line TSFing tends to cause a rough mortality rate in this species. I am holding back some ivories and the rest (both ivories and hets) are being seeded into each of my batches of babies. I will not know which ones are which after a bit because they look alike once you have a bunch of babies that are largely patternless. A person buying an individual could randomly luck out. A person buying a wholesale group (or whole batch) would have a much higher chance of landing a female or even multiple females.