Sad day for me today. In my chek of the outdoor pen I found my little greeck Margherita dead.😢 Probably it happened from a few day. As you can read from all my previus post Margherita was the little tortoise that not grow a single gram in a full year. I'm prepared for something bad but it's...
It's already 3 weeks that I had put my tortoise outdoor. Here the weather is very warm and dry.
This is the outdoor enclosure. I must trim a few the plants.
And this are 3 of the four basking today in the morning sun.
Thank you MotherofDragons for your post. I will tell you that my humid chamber, during the day, is open for ar least half of the hours. I made it closed in first so I can close it during night as Garden State Tortoise tell in their website care sheet. So all the tortoise, even those that don't...
This is a photo of the four. As you can see the shell is super smooth, also in the fast growing one. So there could be fast growing without pyramiding.
Short news from my testudo. After a lot of reading I try tu upgrade my inner enclosure from "tortoise table" style to a fully closed chamber. I did to help to maintain a higher humidity and promote a smooth grow of the shell without pyramiding. Since it's a short term accomodation I proceed with...
Hi Laura and thank you for your appreciation. This is Oogway:
It's the old master of Kung Fu Panda animation film. If you made your ibera enclosure more natural, it will be more pleased to live inside and you will be more pleased to watch it.
Three days ago I wake up my four greeks from hibernation. They sleep for 56 days.
I bring the box from the ventilation shaft of the cellar inside to the cellar at 13 C (55 F) for one day and then in the room of the indoor enclosure at 20 C for a half day and then in the open enclosue with all...
Untile now my 4 iberas are in brumation from 55 days. From wath I read around and wath tell my vet for young tortoise a 2 months brumation are enough. So in the next week I will wake them up. Meanwhile I prepared they indoor pen with a lot of transpanted plants and a lot of sowed plants. They...
Thank you for the suggestion. As soon as the tortoise would be awakened from the brumation I will feed the two little one myself with some good item. They are healthy and have a correct Jakson number, only very small.
I think that a two month brumation will be enough for such little babys. Wath...
Thank you for the compliments.I would like to create an habitat that resemble a natural habitat of the specie and have a loto of enrichment for the individual tortoise.
From the mid of september until the mid of december the tortoise stay in the pen. They eat normally, roam around, stay in the hiding place and so on. The two bigger grow a few as outdoor and the two smaller stay about at the same weight as outdoor.
Four week befor the brumation date I begin to...
Hi to all. A long time go after the last update but with my new home to finish I barely had time to sleep!
A rapid summary of my greek life in these months.
I take them outside until in mid september and them bring them indoor in an open top pen that I build specially.
The pen is 120cm x 50cm...
Here a photo of my biggest tortoise 3CD Hoogway. He is the one that growth more. In 4 months he passed from 35 gr to 69 gr. It seems to me that the shell is nice looking and smooth.
I will share with you a few updates about my tortoise.
Beginning from the day that I bought it, I weight and measure every 2 weeks.
Here are the data and the graph about weight and the Jackson ratio from 1st may until mid august (weight in grams).
A few consideration of mine:
1 - the two...
Another photo of my 3CD Hoogway.
He/she is the biggest of the four and the one that grow faster.
You can see the black border of each scute that is the new grow of this year.
Here he is beginning to eat a flower of Alcea rosea (I think it english name is hollyhock).
They eat it with "mucho gusto"?
A few days ago I made this photo of 2CD Margherita basking under a pale morning sun.
It's always fun to see the strange position they take to assure themselves to be the most perpendicular to the sun as they can. This one was almost vertical on they rear leg leaned on a dandelion plant.
It seems...
Yes, sure I will do it. For now that's not a problem. Here a photo of Hoogway eating a mallow flower. As you can see the new grow that border each scute is "raised" from the old grow. If I have undersand correctly the new keratine must stay swollen in the phase of grow and only shrink when it...