Hi everyone, just want to share updates of my aldabra, Megatron, here too

First picture after I adopted him on 31 July 2012. Picture taken on 12 August 2012.


Picture of his enclosure after first adopted.


After soaking picture with Bumbleebee, a marginated tort, taken 31 August 2012


After soaked picture with Big Bertha. Well she is not with me any more, I gave him to my friend


Picture of Megatron and his troops. The Radiata adopted 7 September 2012, replacing RF and I also call him Big Bertha. Picture taken 8 September 2012.


Pictures taken this morning, eating pumpkin



Pictures taken this afternoon, hay snack time



1 hour ago picture, grass with mazuri


As if now, he is 12 cm, added 0.5 cm from first adopted size. Unfortunately I don't have any scale to weigh him

Beautiful tortoises!!!
Except I don't think it's a good idea to house different tortoise species together.

Only for photo session

Very nice pictures!

Very cute!!

Very cute tortoises : )

Very nice torts. One thing I might have noticed though. Might just be the angle of the camera, but I notice it looks like the Aldabra is more pyramided looking in the later pics then from the first pics. Keep an eye on that. He looks pretty smooth in the first pics, you don't want him to pyramid if you can help it. Aldabramans don't pyramid because of the high humidity in Florida where he lives and also much natural grazing. Some of us can't do as much natural grazing as others, but we all can do the humidity. Just a heads up. Otherwise great looking.

Nice pics of all the kids...thanks to sharing.

Awesome pics. Awesome torts.

im curious to know more about that tort room?

(10-09-2012 10:02 PM)Team Gomberg Wrote:  im curious to know more about that tort room?

It's outdoors.


To Yellow Turtle, if I remember correctly from the first post, you live where it's very humid. Am I correct? If I am then the pyramiding I see, must just be the pic and my iPad.

nice torts family

(10-09-2012 10:47 PM)wellington Wrote:  

(10-09-2012 10:02 PM)Team Gomberg Wrote:  im curious to know more about that tort room?

It's outdoors.


To Yellow Turtle, if I remember correctly from the first post, you live where it's very humid. Am I correct? If I am then the pyramiding I see, must just be the pic and my iPad.

Wellington, yeah, I'm sure you surely need to upgrade your ipad to samsung galaxy tab <jokes>

Megatron has slight pyramiding since the day I bought him. Since I watch him everyday, I really don't have the chance to notice if the pyramiding has grown worse or not, I just assume that his newer growth is quite okay. Too bad, I don't have too much photo of him for comparison. But since you've been around with tort much longer than me and should be much more expert, then I will assume I need to pay more attention to him

Humidity here is around 50 - 70%, but of course you can always check Indonesia country average humidity for more assurance.

Basically I'm trying to have more plants and grass in his enclosure to catch more humidity. But somehow I'm not really successful in growing them. That's why you see in several last photos, the shell is always wet. Spray him a lot, or at least instruct his babysitter to spray him a lot per day, till at least he grows much bigger or I have more plants inside

So any more things that I can do to improve his pyramiding? Please feel free to share

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(10-06-2012 05:31 AM)ALDABRAMAN Wrote:  Very nice pictures!

Thank you. I always love to watch your aldabra pictures. Especially now you have new hatchlings, I hope you can keep a few and share their updates with us

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(10-06-2012 05:37 AM)MichiLove Wrote:  Very cute!!

Thank you. I love to see your torto garden too

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(10-09-2012 06:54 PM)Robyn@TRR Wrote:  Very cute tortoises : )

Thank you, I hope they grow bigger, especially Megatron

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(10-09-2012 09:58 PM)mainey34 Wrote:  Nice pics of all the kids...thanks to sharing.

You are welcome. Hope you can share updates of your sulcata as well

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(10-09-2012 10:02 PM)Biff Malibu Wrote:  Awesome pics. Awesome torts.

I would say awesome pics too for your sulcata, but your profile picture is even more awesome. Is that you?

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(10-09-2012 10:02 PM)Team Gomberg Wrote:  im curious to know more about that tort room?

Honestly, I'm even curious to know what my future enclosure will be. Keep adding few things here and there. Last update is new dog house, for more hide

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(10-10-2012 12:55 AM)Julius25 Wrote:  nice torts family

You have very nice torts too and I always love to see your stars' enclosure. It's amazing and cool

Install a new toy for Megatron. A chick humidifier set on timer, made in China, quite cheap for USD 50
When checked this morning, able to improve humidity from 60 to 75%. Not perfect but quite okay just in case his babysitter is lazy spraying his shell


Here is Megatron enjoying his cold sauna session. Now only need to add some essential oil for aromatherapy inside the chick water container

Thats awesome.