Canoli Updates (healthy happy baby)

Mortis_thetortoise

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I'm thinking canoli is doing well! Eats a small plate of greens a day. 80% all from the garden-cacti pads hibiscus leaves grasses weeds flowers . 20% from the store consists of organic - dandelion, turnip greens, bokChoi, endive and collards

Scale still broke weight unknown but deff feels heavier. And I could notice her getting bigger had to make her hide bigger so she can easily fit inside.

It's cool... when I open the cage and spray shell dart out of her hide

Enjoy the pictures ! Any feedback appreciated !
Thanks everyone learning a lot here.
 

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Here are the pictures !

She was 60g a month ago

Her shell is smoothing out(first three weeks less than ideal conditions when I was learning still) could see the growth rings coming in nicely now with constant soaks and good diet

Anyone have records of scute growth rings to keep track of health and age like a tree ?
 

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Mortis_thetortoise

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Wow, she's beautiful!

thanks ! shes my baby

its cool in the first picture (close up of shell) first two growths are close together and taller ( not cool- potentially was start to pyramidingwhen conditions weren't dialed in) now since everything is where it should be the next 3 growths are coming in nice and smooth, between the 2nd and 3rd lines on every schute you could see where she started getting proper care leading to good growth.

im going to keep track and data from the rings over time and see what i come up with
 

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::UPDATE:: 3/2/17

i got her roughly around 9/16/16 weight and age unknown (4-8 wks guessing)

when i started soaking her with proper care and diet it was 12/6/16 (changed diet, rebuilt enclosure, dialed in temps and humidity, soak at least once aim for twice a day, plenty of good food and misting during the day.

when i weighed her for the first time she was 50.0g (12/6)

after a month of good care she gained roughly 10 grams
last i weighed her (1/26/2017) she was 59.6g (~10g)

then the scale boke

i finally got a new scale.........

......and.....

today on (3/2/2017) she weighed

93.3g !
roughly 30g in a month

im pretty stoked.
 

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ummmmm may have forgot to tare the scale so possibly -7.6g

so anywhere from 85.7-93.3g current weight ( gain of +26.1g to + 33.7g in february)

ill check tonight when i make a new growth chart !
 

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That's great! Incredible what proper care can do! Keep it up! Spur hit 97g yesterday, I'm ready for the triple digits but I'm leaving town for a while tomorrow so I won't get to see it happen, it's okay though!
 

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That's great! Incredible what proper care can do! Keep it up! Spur hit 97g yesterday, I'm ready for the triple digits but I'm leaving town for a while tomorrow so I won't get to see it happen, it's okay though!


haha thats aweome glad hes doing great too!

after checking the scale and taring properly the current weight is 86.7G lol -__-
still very good though !!! still happy haha

pictures soon!
 

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haha thats aweome glad hes doing great too!

after checking the scale and taring properly the current weight is 86.7G lol -__-
still very good though !!! still happy haha

pictures soon!

That's still great! Canoli is beautiful!
 
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