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Hi my name is Armando I live in Puerto Rico (in the caribbean sea)
I have had tortoises since I was a little kid but I had never had a hatchling. And on top of that I grew up thinking that grown tortoises could live in Puerto Rico and lay eggs but they would never hatch.
Now it's been some years since I put the couple the female(12 inches) and the male(16 inches) outside in a perfect and really spaceful habitat for them. I saw that the female had laid some eggs. So like always I paid no attention to them but I never knew that these would hatch. yey now i have a little hatchling! Which I have named Conan. He's about two inches.
He or she is 5 days old and I am really worrying about the form in which his yolk sac is being absorbed. He seems to be doing fine and when he isn't sleeping he is active and alert, he even shows interest for greens, but his yolk sac doesn't look fine it smells a little and it seems to have i dont know what. Please I really want these hatchling to live and grow big like his father but I really don't know what to do. Could someone with some experience please tell me what could I do? I was thinking of may be putting some betadine or something else in the area since I don't know if it is infection.
Here's a picture!!
I have had tortoises since I was a little kid but I had never had a hatchling. And on top of that I grew up thinking that grown tortoises could live in Puerto Rico and lay eggs but they would never hatch.
Now it's been some years since I put the couple the female(12 inches) and the male(16 inches) outside in a perfect and really spaceful habitat for them. I saw that the female had laid some eggs. So like always I paid no attention to them but I never knew that these would hatch. yey now i have a little hatchling! Which I have named Conan. He's about two inches.
He or she is 5 days old and I am really worrying about the form in which his yolk sac is being absorbed. He seems to be doing fine and when he isn't sleeping he is active and alert, he even shows interest for greens, but his yolk sac doesn't look fine it smells a little and it seems to have i dont know what. Please I really want these hatchling to live and grow big like his father but I really don't know what to do. Could someone with some experience please tell me what could I do? I was thinking of may be putting some betadine or something else in the area since I don't know if it is infection.
Here's a picture!!
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