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Yay for you! Los tres amigos are reunited, lucky guys!
Oh split scutes are great! My little Maui is a split scute, and she's a real sweetheart too
Yours are all cute. Did the one lose the eye or was it born without?
Yours are all cute. Did the one lose the eye or was it born without?
Just to be sure there really is only one eye, dab some antibiotic opthalmic ointment on the missing eye three times a day for a few days. If its just injured and stuck shut, this will help it heal and open. If nothing happens, you'll know for sure the eye is gone.
How great would that be if it had the other eye!
Yvonne, by antibiotic ophtalmic ointment you mean terramycin right?
Yvonne, by antibiotic ophtalmic ointment you mean terramycin right?
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as great as that would be, the eye is nowhere to be found.
heres a thread I posted with a pic of the missing eye.
http://www.tortoiseforum.org/Thread-Cy-s-missing-eye
Hey Kenny 
I guess there like Lay's potato chip's you can't just have one That's great you have them all now
I guess there like Lay's potato chip's you can't just have one That's great you have them all now 
I like groups of three the best myself. I also have a very soft spot for a special scute tortoise.
They are gorgeous. The breeder of my leopards told me that the split scutes are always female. I recently saw a young sulcata with a split scute and she was definitely female. Does it work that way for Hermanns? I really like this species. I intend to get some this summer.
I heard that split scutes are almost always female because higher incubation temps produce females and the same higher temps produce split-scutes.
Not being a breeder though, this is just what I've heard and have been told.
Not being a breeder though, this is just what I've heard and have been told.
Yeah, I've heard the same thing, just wondering if some of the long term breeders can verify it. I don't have enough breeding experience either. I've never produced a split scute.
i think the reason most if not all are females is because of incubating temps. i think. I heard that from somewhere, either way nice looking babies reminds me of my old baby greeks
Nice pics Kenny, did you get those at AZ Reptile Center? They always have really good tortoises from time to time.
One of my eggs that just hatched was incubated in the mid eighties and has irregular scutes. They mentioned at the TTPG conference that split scutes happen when incubated at all types of temperatures.
Not sure if it counts but my male star has irregular scutes, only 4 mid lateral scutes(?) instead of five.
One of my eggs that just hatched was incubated in the mid eighties and has irregular scutes. They mentioned at the TTPG conference that split scutes happen when incubated at all types of temperatures.
Not sure if it counts but my male star has irregular scutes, only 4 mid lateral scutes(?) instead of five.
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oh how wonderful to have some exciting new babies! something tells me you may not want to breed them lol... one born split scute and another without an eye... inbreeding to the extreme lol!
i have a soft spot for impaired animals... i probably would have done the same thing! glad to hear the lost eye poses no problems.
i have a soft spot for impaired animals... i probably would have done the same thing! glad to hear the lost eye poses no problems.
Your torts are real special, Kenny! I'd love to see some more pics.
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