Recent content by MareBear44

Hello all. I just wanted to update you all on Atlas. First of all, thank you for all of your help. I went and got him a brand new MVB. He seems to be doing better. The lines on his shell are fading and he is even more active than he was before. I am wondering if I had a faulty bulb and no...

He is eating, acting normal, and he was checked for parasites. Nothing seems wrong. Just these weird lines

It is not softer than usual. He is small so his plastron has a little give, but not very much.

Hey there all. I have this cute little 2 and half month old Greek Iberia, Atlas. He was recently dewormed as a precaution because his clutch mate died suddenly. He has an awesome 3x5 foot enclosure with cypress mulch. It is kept at 55% humidity and 90-95 degrees on the warm side. He has a large...

Tula and Atlas are clutchmates and were always very good to each other. Atlas and Tula were sent to me at 1 month old. I loved them and their enclosure was so large(2.5 feet by nearly 5 feet) they were never really near each other. Tula made it to 7 weeks old. I don't believe it was anything...

Thanks for the information. I appreciate it for future reference.

The breeder told me that he had them living in the same enclosure and it wasn't a problem. They were only a month and half old. I think she was sick when I received her. She seemed a little off, but I thought she was just getting used to her new environment.

Yes. They were vet checked. Tula was a little off from the beginning when we got her. She seemed to want to hibernate and not eat. They were in the same enclosure, but that is how they were kept from birth. Atlas was her clutchmate, born of the same parents. I called the breeder and he...

Tula, my Iberian Greek Tortoise, passed away this morning. She had lost some weight, was not eating, digging in, and acting as if she were ready to hibernate(which, in this species. is not typical. In the beginning, we thought she was just getting adjusted to her new surroundings. As time...