Via Infinito
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I felt stressed and felt like failing my previous one because he had plenty of varied veggies, weeds, grass + reptile pellets + mazuri + plenty of sunshine and for 4 months he did not gain a single gram! He was 50g when I got him and 50g when I gave him away ( he's six month old). He still has a relatively soft belly since the beginning despite me really trying to give him more calcium, but otherwise he was active and healthy
I relocated him to back to the petstore ( this petstore is quite good cuz they specialised in reptiles) and they gave me another one at 79g and this one already had a firm plastron at 4 month old! The exchange is to test whether I have been raising him wrong, if the petstore can nurture my tortoise for growth then I will take him back.
This new one is more shy and less social and literally refuses to eat anything but grass out in my yard and it's already 83g in 7 days....
I don't know whether to laugh or to cry
I relocated him to back to the petstore ( this petstore is quite good cuz they specialised in reptiles) and they gave me another one at 79g and this one already had a firm plastron at 4 month old! The exchange is to test whether I have been raising him wrong, if the petstore can nurture my tortoise for growth then I will take him back.
This new one is more shy and less social and literally refuses to eat anything but grass out in my yard and it's already 83g in 7 days....
I don't know whether to laugh or to cry