Well, here is latest update, thankfully to this great forum we learn and provide best possible care for our sulcata. Some maybe remember us from past years and for ones that are not familiar her is short info, our dear sulcata male came in 03.09.2012 as ,27g hatchling, now 10+ years later he is...
Also this is fresh picture of all 4, breeder did replaced lost one and add one extra. They were checked by a vet and were in isolation until we have seen that all was good. Now they are all together and all eating like crazy.
Last few weeks they are growing like a weed, today they both are above 52gramms, this photo on scale is before 2 weeks. So glad that they pulled trough.
Believe me im not so stupid, we work with reptiles for past 12 years. Also we have male sulcata for 6+ years raised with help of this forum and now he is 30+ kg beast with smooth shell
I totally get why you wright this, nowdays on fb groups you can see soo much stupidity that i dont know should...
Well avared of this. They come from same source, from two clutches and will keep them together until i see that one is dominating other or new ones come in. This should be realized in a month and yes sure they will be separated.
Plus we woork from home so they are allways on watch
After one month here are results, smaller one is up to 32g, bigger one 44g. They eats like pigs but those damn gramms are so slow in going up. Shell is nice and hard, plastron still soft (like plastic lid not musshy). Eating grasses, endive, succulents, opuntia pads, plantain end some weeds...
So my and wife guts were right, i just want to hear that! They look really sunken in when come to us, hind legs kinda thin and heavy wrinkled,after some days they look better, and today nice puffy like they should. I would keep fighting and do as i was until now, this forum is pure gold!
As for plants names in latin or english:
Plantago
Young dandelion leaves
4 different kind of grases
Lambs lettuce
chichorum (2-3 a week)
Smooth Sow thistle
Prickly Sow thistle
Frisee (2x a week)
Opuntia pads
house leek
some allowed sedums
also some graptopetalum (we call here this plant stone...