PixelAdams
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I have a few questions about some behavior I've observed in my baby marginated. Just want to check and make sure everything is normal.
First, I've noticed a shoulder bobbing motion she does a lot. It almost looks like she's shrugging, mostly she does this while she's resting. Is this a normal motion for tortoises?
She tends to bask a lot, basically all day. She goes into her humid hide at night, wakes up and comes out mid morning, and spends the rest of the day snoozing on the hot side. (Temps are 80 in the hide, 95-100 in the hot spot, with a gradient down to 65 on the cool side.) I haven't seen her explore the cool side of the tank at all yet.
She'll eat about 1 leaf of spring mix a day. I gave her some mashed up zoo med pellets mixed with the spring mix, but she didn't seem to touch that. Should she be eating more? She's only 7 weeks old, and has been with me 4 days, so I figure she might warm up to me and eat more after a few weeks, but I want to know if I should try to encourage her to eat more now, or just let her do what she wants.
I know everything is probably totally fine with her, she doesn't seem to be having too many adjustment problems to her new home. I'm just a worried new tortoise parent, and thought I'd document some things I've noticed for you all to comment on. So if any of the above seems out of the ordinary, please let me know!
First, I've noticed a shoulder bobbing motion she does a lot. It almost looks like she's shrugging, mostly she does this while she's resting. Is this a normal motion for tortoises?
She tends to bask a lot, basically all day. She goes into her humid hide at night, wakes up and comes out mid morning, and spends the rest of the day snoozing on the hot side. (Temps are 80 in the hide, 95-100 in the hot spot, with a gradient down to 65 on the cool side.) I haven't seen her explore the cool side of the tank at all yet.
She'll eat about 1 leaf of spring mix a day. I gave her some mashed up zoo med pellets mixed with the spring mix, but she didn't seem to touch that. Should she be eating more? She's only 7 weeks old, and has been with me 4 days, so I figure she might warm up to me and eat more after a few weeks, but I want to know if I should try to encourage her to eat more now, or just let her do what she wants.
I know everything is probably totally fine with her, she doesn't seem to be having too many adjustment problems to her new home. I'm just a worried new tortoise parent, and thought I'd document some things I've noticed for you all to comment on. So if any of the above seems out of the ordinary, please let me know!