Recent content by Rutibegga

I haven't frequented the forum much lately, but Troggy is getting big and I'm about 85% certain now that he's male. He's got the right shaped ventral scutes and he's starting to look a bit concave. He's about 18 months old and around 2# at this point, so it might be too early to guess. I'll try...

Definitely hating on me for this, but not totally flipping out.

As the owner of a tort who is growing way faster than expected, I intuitively started doing this in the last few months. My 13 month old redfoot is 584g, which is way larger than what ive seen other people post for redfoot of that age. He's also getting some minor pyramiding despite fairly...

Weeds (testudo mix, dandelion, grasses, clover), fruits, grocery store greens, some hard boiled egg, but aside from the protein, all minced and mixed with mazuri or he'd totally ignore it. In the last few months I've stopped that and if he doesn't eat his veggies or fruit, he just doesn't eat...

I got him in August, and he was 72g and 7.5cm long then. He's gained roughly 80g per month since then, and grown lengthwise in fits and starts. He started getting weird about his soaks in December or January, and I stopped them until this week, but kept his humidity as high as I could, adding...

I've been leaning towards female as well, but I think it's probably too soon to say for sure. I don't really care one way or the other.

Here's a shot from above. I think he's still too young to sex, but I'd love to hear any opinions.

I noticed that too! Most of the other photos I've seen of redfoot carapaces have had a lot more dark coloring. He's just a special snowflake?

Daily, sometimes twice daily. Then we had a week or so of thrashing and trying to climb out, which made me worry he was getting too stressed. Here you can see his pyramiding a bit better.

Troggy is 13 months old, 584g, and just bit over 15cm long. He's a little lumpier than I'd hoped, though his humidity is between 70 and 80 to 85%. I have to add about a gallon of water to his substrate once to twice daily to maintain that. He went on a soak strike for a while, thrashing and...

Man, I really love that face. I want to steal your humpy, grunty, grumpy-faced tort!

I love that nose stripe! That's one cute little tort!

I've been off the forums a few months and came back to this. RIP Bubbles. I'm so happy you gave her such a fantastic last year. She was a lucky tort.

Sorry, for some reason I'm unable to edit my post to remove those duplicate photos.

I've been remiss in posting, as other aspects of my life have been in shambles. Trogdor is doing ok, though. He started FREAKING out (thrashing, trying to climb out, and generally acting like I was trying to kill him) about bathing, so I stopped for a while, but now he's looking a bit pyramided...