mini_max
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It's been a long time since I last posted! Our Russian, Max, is now approximately 4 years old. We live in Alberta, Canada, so he has been living in a large outdoor enclosure for the past few months, and will resume life indoors by the end of September.
He has a heated hide in his outdoor enclosure which is dug into a hill. For 3 summers now he has always slept borrowed just slightly in one end of this hide. However last week he tunnelled about a foot into his hill and did not come out for a week. We removed him, marvelled at how much he'd grown, and then soaked and fed him. He ate, pooped, and showed no signs of a health issue. His shell is smooth and shiny, his eyes are bright and not sunken, his plastron is perfect, and his tongue is pink. After removing him, we tried to plug his tunnel with rocks, however he did it again, and we dug him up 3 days later. He ate a bit, and we brought him to his indoor enclosure where he burrowed as best he could and has done little else for about a day.
What the heck? Has he/she reached some sort of maturity, and now wants to burrow and hibernate? What should I do? Please and thanks for the advice.
He has a heated hide in his outdoor enclosure which is dug into a hill. For 3 summers now he has always slept borrowed just slightly in one end of this hide. However last week he tunnelled about a foot into his hill and did not come out for a week. We removed him, marvelled at how much he'd grown, and then soaked and fed him. He ate, pooped, and showed no signs of a health issue. His shell is smooth and shiny, his eyes are bright and not sunken, his plastron is perfect, and his tongue is pink. After removing him, we tried to plug his tunnel with rocks, however he did it again, and we dug him up 3 days later. He ate a bit, and we brought him to his indoor enclosure where he burrowed as best he could and has done little else for about a day.
What the heck? Has he/she reached some sort of maturity, and now wants to burrow and hibernate? What should I do? Please and thanks for the advice.