Recent content by Victor Swanson

Yes i can get you all the info you want but i am no experts by any means ! All i can say now is that the whole closed chamber thing is completely confirmed by what i'm seeing with my tortoises. I got them at the end of the rain season, they hatched right in the middle of the rain season. they...

Ok so i weighted them today. Here is the comparison between june the 18th and December the 9th

Thank you Aloysius, but i have way less merit than the people raising them in the northern hemisphere ! After all they are raised in their home land. All they eat in their natural habitat are readily available in my garden. I don't have to buy expensive UVB or heating lamps etc... as well as...

Thanks, regularly soaked by me and daily soaked by heavy flash rain at least once a day :) for more than half of the year. Dry season is getting started, i'll soak more often because rain will stop for at least 4 month...

Slowly growing at first but been really packing on grams since June and the wet season.

Little update, i see a lot of people monitoring the growth of their sulcatas, so to add my data i'll show their growth here They have had a slow start but now they start packing on grams. The monsoon season is here, heavy rains at least 6 to 8 hours a day and 98% humidity, it seems to really...

Little update, They seem to start to grow fairly well I've bought a kitchen scale, and been weighing them for 3 weeks, They seem to pack on 10g a week. The monsoon season is a month away, so now the temperature are quite hot, so they are really active from 5 am to around 10 Pm then they...

Found the photo I took of the parents

Here is a quick picture of the outdoor enclosure before I added their big water area, They have several caverns or burrows so they can feel safe, but they spend most of their time eating and roaming around

Yes I am near the coast, I was a bit wrong, it ranges from 70 to 85, (95 being rare) and usually couple hours before heavy monsoon rainfall. Farther inland "extreme north" is actually slightly hotter but mostly drier and colder at night, below 20 is not rare. Farther inland " Center" is more...

Average yearly Humidity level is around 80 to 95 %

Here is two charts :) To better understand

Growth monitoring has only been by measurement of the plastron. So in almost five month: Mango went from 2.16 to 2.97 Bongo went from 1.96 to 2.75 Congo went from 1.88 to 2.55 Their diet consist of plenty of Opuntia cactus, different kind of African weeds, African dandelion, hibiscus leaves and...

Hi everybody, a while ago I introduced myself in the appropriate section. Due to a lack of time I didn't have the time to make a real thread about my 3 tortoises. Here they are, they are approx 5 month old, hatched naturally, outside without any man interaction during the rainy season. I named...