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Hi there. Just havent been able to find much about how fast a retfoot grows. When is it considered full grown? maybe a link to a growth chart?
redfoot growth rate?
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ehopkins12 said:
By 'full grown', do you mean full adult size, or breeding size?
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adult size, breeding size. how big do they get and how long does it take? how many inches a year?
A typical full-grown adult will hit about 12" straight-line carapace length (SCL) but can start to breed at about 3 years, 7" or so from what I have read.
Their growth is not perfectly linear- it starts a bit slow, speeds up, and slows down again in an S-curve. Most published reports show a growth of about an inch a year, but mine were growing faster than that until I put them on a diet.
Their growth is not perfectly linear- it starts a bit slow, speeds up, and slows down again in an S-curve. Most published reports show a growth of about an inch a year, but mine were growing faster than that until I put them on a diet.
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