Hatchling. Method for the impatient.

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Gorgeous little babies. :)

I would not keep them on red paper. They are very likely to eat it. Same with the rice. Is that rice for substrate?

I usually use lightly dampened plain white paper towels with a bunch of greens in the middle like in your pic. This year I used grape vine leaves and broadleaf plantain leaves instead of the paper towels, and it worked very well for me.

You might find some useful tips here:
http://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/how-to-incubate-eggs-and-start-hatchlings.124266/
 

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I would not keep them on red paper. They are very likely to eat it. Same with the rice. Is that rice for substrate?

I usually use lightly dampened plain white paper towels with a bunch of greens in the middle like in your pic. This year I used grape vine leaves and broadleaf plantain leaves instead of the paper towels, and it worked very well for me.
Rice and paper - for a couple of days ...
Perhaps today I will set them on the shavings.
This substrate one of the Croatian breeders likes to use for babies.



 

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Rice and paper - for a couple of days ...
Perhaps today I will set them on the shavings.
This substrate one of the Croatian breeders likes to use for babies.





Hatchlings sample their substrate and surroundings. Its part of them learning to eat. I would never put a hatchling, or an older one for that matter, on shavings. Besides the impaction risk, shavings are much too dry for a baby.
 

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Hatchlings sample their substrate and surroundings. Its part of them learning to eat. I would never put a hatchling, or an older one for that matter, on shavings. Besides the impaction risk, shavings are much too dry for a baby.

Tastes differ. :cool:

Here's how the kids grow from this breeder
(For information: shavings are always wet. Most of the time torts burrow into shavings.)

That two-year:





That annuals:





The last - ten days


Please note: no pyramiding! :)
 

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Is it out now ?
Or will you have to help him a bit ?
He must be getting weak. :(
 

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The guy top left in the video is obviously the philosopher.
Thinking rather than eating.
Glad to know they're all doing well.:)
 

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Sorry, was distracted. :(

We have successfully moved from Croatia to the sunny Cyprus, but with a stopover.


One of the kids was given to a good friend.

The new enclosure has been specially made for the company.
Not very big, but enough for the kids.
 
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