Do russians grow all there life

[Nikolai13]

Do russians ever get done rowing or do they grow all their life , and if anyone has a pictureof a full sized male , post it please!!!! I miss my tort being tiny...

 

[GeoTerraTestudo]

All reptiles have what's called indeterminate growth, meaning that unlike birds and mammals, they continue to grow throughout their lives. Having said that, beyond a certain size, their growth rate does slow down considerably, so it is possible to speak of a "maximum" size for a tortoise. Males grow to 5-6" SCL, females 7-8" SCL. Some males can reach 8" and some females 10", but that's not typical.

There some folks here on TFO with nice, big males and massive female Russians. Hopefully they'll share their pix with us.

 

[tortadise]

This male is pretty decent size. Close to 7". I have pretty sausagely big hands


Then a normalish sized male with a small female


Then Sometimes they do get rather large indeed. This is a female almost 8"

 

[GeoTerraTestudo]

Big 'uns! Nice!

 

[tortadise]

Well I did want to do hand modeling but yah know lol kidding. yeah that male is a big very aggressive one for sure. He gets supervised breeding.

 

[GeoTerraTestudo]

I suppose if he's as big or bigger than the female, he would have to be supervised, eh?

 

[Tom]

Kelly, it looks like that big male might have bashed your tape measure... Nice photos.

Another good explanation GTT.