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She was this tiny when I first got her😂

It’s been almost a year but I just wanted to update on Naya! I was thinking of keeping a record before but was caught up in other things and completely forgot about it🥲. She’s great about triple the size and weight now can’t even hold her with one hand and her appetites great as usual!

It’s actually quite low, only about 1.2cm high it‘s just the angle that’s making it look higher lol

So lucky to discover the forum I would be so worried if it weren‘t for the advices I got ! I’m planning on keeping a record of her growth here would be really interesting looking back in a few years time and see how much progressed she’s made.

Thank you ! I got mine from my local pet shop this time cuz I wanted to get naya out of the old newspapers and into the new substrate as soon as possible, will definitely check the link out. Nice to have some supply at home so I don’t have to go all the way to the pet shop and carry a huge bag...

I’ll do that thank you ! I’ve also checked out the care sheet Sarah sent as well I’m going to the pet store first thing tomorrow to see if they have any orchid bark. In the mean while I’ll take the substrate out and replace it with newspaper.

Will do ! Thanks Sarah !

Here’s a picture of her enclosure, the ladders usually against the wall I was checking if she pooped in there this morning and forgot to put it back, I just used tortoise substrate I got from the pet store.

Hi Angie, Thank you so much for the advice ! Really sets my mind at ease, I’ve put the pellets back to her diet, I squashed them on her leaves to see if I can trick her to eat some of the leaves, but she somehow managed to pick all of them out without eating any of the leaves lol, but her...

Forgot to mention she recently started taking small bites of her substrate occasionally as well

Hi, I’m a new tortoise owner from Ireland and is hoping to get some advice on my tortoise. I got my western Herman tortoise who is 9 months old about two weeks ago she’s being trying to escape for the first two day she got here but soon settled in. Though just recently she started scraping the...