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Need help Id'ing a tort given to someone in our small FB group. Info is that he is 11 years old. My initial thought is Asian Brown/Black?????

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Oh my goodness y'all... I am seriously about to cry. During his soak just now I noticed and had to take a picture to compare but... I got my baby about a month and a half ago and- Bmo has some new scute growth. His previous owners were clueless about humidity and had him in an open table with...

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It's a piece of baby leaf lettuce from a spring mix.

I've had BMO all of 2.5 days, and he is just so outgoing I can't get over it! He doesn't hide away in his shell, and rarely flinches. Here is him being totally fine with hand feeding this afternoon :)

Also, after these pictures, I took some lids from pizza boxes and covered them in foil to cover each side of the enclosure. Just leaves it open where the lights come in. Will that help at all or does the foil need to go over the light arm and light and come down the front?

I don't have a night source. I was thinking of getting a ceramic emitter for night/the other side but im out of tort funds til July lol! Its 75 in there at night. Without a rock, it is hitting 100 degrees in there right now under the light, switch the thermometer to the hide to see the coolest temp.

Really? hmm interesting! Well how big or old are they when they are sexed?

Also, the temp under the lamp is now staying at 97-98

It looks like it dips in just slightly in the center there. And thanks, that's my middle child Koa when he was 9mths old :)

He has a very V-shaped outward turning scute where the tail is. The tail is very long and fat. And his plastron is very concave.

Yes! He is with us now, and we are working on getting a better more humid and moist environment for him. I soaked him this morning while I set up the enclosure and got the dry icky bark out. He says, "leave me alone! they call this thing a 'hide' for a reason lady!" lol

Pics are bad (phone) lol but we've got some improvement. Coco coir, calcium powder for sprinkling, an all-in-one mercury vapor bulb and the little guy seems to be loving the new moist habitat. However, you see what I mean about the low walls and the lamp making it hard to cover???? Would the...