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Chasen

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I just want to say how much I appreciate this forum. Thanks to everyone who dispensed advice and I especially want to thank @Tom and @Yvonne G for their help and patience with all my questions. If it weren't for this forum, I don't believe my little guy would have survived, much less be thriving. I consider this forum to be the bible of tortoise husbandry. Weigh in this morning was 143 grams! Here's a few pics of the journey from day one. Thank you all!!

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Yvonne G

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Those are great pictures. But you're not going to recognize him when you come to get him. They change so much.
 

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I just want to say how much I appreciate this forum. Thanks to everyone who dispensed advice and I especially want to thank @Tom and @Yvonne G for their help and patience with all my questions. If it weren't for this forum, I don't believe my little guy would have survived, much less be thriving. I consider this forum to be the bible of tortoise husbandry. Weigh in this morning was 143 grams! Here's a few pics of the journey from day one. Thank you all!!

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He is adorable, he is certainly a special tort:D
 

C. Nelson

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I just want to say how much I appreciate this forum. Thanks to everyone who dispensed advice and I especially want to thank @Tom and @Yvonne G for their help and patience with all my questions. If it weren't for this forum, I don't believe my little guy would have survived, much less be thriving. I consider this forum to be the bible of tortoise husbandry. Weigh in this morning was 143 grams! Here's a few pics of the journey from day one. Thank you all!!

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Great photos. Love the markings on your little one.
 

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Thank you. I'm quite pleased myself. And rather surprised as I had no idea when I picked him out of the little herd at the expo.

Well, don't be surprised when you come to pick him up if he looks quite a bit different. I've kept three different hatchling leopards in the past. All of them developed that beautiful 'white' band when they started growing, but eventually all looked 'leopardy' as they continued to grow, and lost the white band. Here's Leonard when he grew the white band:

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And here he is five months later:

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And here he is today, 4 months later:

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(Those bricks are 8" apart, he's a year old)
 
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Chasen

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Well, don't be surprised when you come to pick him up if he looks quite a bit different. I've kept three different hatchling leopards in the past. All of them developed that beautiful 'white' band when they started growing, but eventually all looked 'leopardy' as they continued to grow, and lost the white band. Here's Leonard when he grew the white band:

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And here he is five months later:

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And here he is today, 4 months later:

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(Those bricks are 8" apart, he's a year old)

He's still a beauty
 
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