Hi everyone!
We have had our Indian Star Tortoise for over a year now, we got him as a hatchling from a breeder and he is now 18 months old. He seems to be a healthy, happy little thing. He eats, he soaks, he poos, he basks, I think he does everything he should do. But I am concerned he does not weigh enough, after reading up a bit on here I think it may of stemmed from when he was a tiny baby.... the breeder told us to put him in an open top tortoise table so we did, we bought the proper set up for this, lights etc and he said along as you spray the table it'll be fine as it was summer and very hot in out house but obviously then the winter came and we realised this was wrong so we bought him a lovely vivarium and new lights and he seems happy but he is small.
We weigh him every month and he does put weight on every month.
So I think what I'm asking is, what are the weights of your 18 month old Indian Star's?
We love him very much especially our daughter, I would hate for there to be anything wrong with him!
Thanks for reading if you managed it all, sorry it's such a long post!
We have had our Indian Star Tortoise for over a year now, we got him as a hatchling from a breeder and he is now 18 months old. He seems to be a healthy, happy little thing. He eats, he soaks, he poos, he basks, I think he does everything he should do. But I am concerned he does not weigh enough, after reading up a bit on here I think it may of stemmed from when he was a tiny baby.... the breeder told us to put him in an open top tortoise table so we did, we bought the proper set up for this, lights etc and he said along as you spray the table it'll be fine as it was summer and very hot in out house but obviously then the winter came and we realised this was wrong so we bought him a lovely vivarium and new lights and he seems happy but he is small.
We weigh him every month and he does put weight on every month.
So I think what I'm asking is, what are the weights of your 18 month old Indian Star's?
We love him very much especially our daughter, I would hate for there to be anything wrong with him!
Thanks for reading if you managed it all, sorry it's such a long post!