@cdmay. I took loads of photos and I'm disappointed. The photos are of poor quality. I'll take same more tomorrow, trouble is it's freezing here at the moment so I can't use natural light. The flash messed it up.
Anyway, this female has me puzzled, her carapace and plastron is super thick. There are 4 scutes that have pulled to one side. The lady who had her before me had her for about 12 yrs and she was this size when she got her. I've had her for about 18 month now. She just laid 2 clutches of 3 in the past 2 months, first eggs for me from her.
Wish I could find what her history is. I'm guessing wild caught but at some stage was kept under a low intense heat source.
I measured Edna today accurately and she's 12.5" SCL.
Back in the day when they were importing Brazilians to Florida (Miami I believe) was there shipments to the UK too.
Tell me what you are reading from her carapace please. It looks to me that she was caught very young because you can see the carapace is lower just after growth around the areola where captive care kicked in, but still a smooth trend.
Anyway, this female has me puzzled, her carapace and plastron is super thick. There are 4 scutes that have pulled to one side. The lady who had her before me had her for about 12 yrs and she was this size when she got her. I've had her for about 18 month now. She just laid 2 clutches of 3 in the past 2 months, first eggs for me from her.
Wish I could find what her history is. I'm guessing wild caught but at some stage was kept under a low intense heat source.
I measured Edna today accurately and she's 12.5" SCL.
Back in the day when they were importing Brazilians to Florida (Miami I believe) was there shipments to the UK too.
Tell me what you are reading from her carapace please. It looks to me that she was caught very young because you can see the carapace is lower just after growth around the areola where captive care kicked in, but still a smooth trend.