Adult female hypo stinkpot musk turtle (odoratus)
~4.75" straight carapace length (scl)
$7000 shipped if paid via Zelle
Cash in person in Central FL is welcome
PayPal *might* be acceptable at distance, depending on some things.
Hatchlings tend to range from 2k to 3k. High-quality hypos are especially bright as hatchlings.
Feeding primarily on varied pellets, fish flesh, and shrimp flesh. I have also witnessed her feeding on snails, various insects, and some aquatic plants. She will eat Cuban treefrogs, too, and there is a cool sequence of photos showing that on the Tortoise Morphs Facebook page at some point back in 2022.
This is a hypo/hypomelanistic musk turtle, although some people call them T+ albino musk turtles. I will continue to refer to this morph as a hypo since that is what it is.
I am cutting down on my total number of aquatic turtle projects, so this one is available for now. I may change my mind. This is my last hypo stinkpot I have and my favorite (which is why she is my last one).
I am including a photo of her when she was a hatchling so you can see what they look like when they are fresh. This female maintained a relatively bright appearance until she was moved into a murky outdoor setup. Tannins from oak leaves, algae, and detritus have stained her shell and skin somewhat.
Feel free to check out and like/follow the Tortoise Morphs Facebook page, Instagram page, and Tortoise Morphs website if you are so inclined. Faunaclassifieds.com is our home base for advertising even with all of those other portals of access to information. You will see more real-time non-advertising content on the pages mentioned in comparison to what my ads show.
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 running me approximately $65 to $75 most of the time now. Sometimes I save two bucks and sometimes I lose ten over the included number, so $65 to $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 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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