Nigel, my Jordanian Greek

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Meg90

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Hi everyone! Well, my boyfriend and I have had Nigel for about a week
now, and I decided to take some pictures with breakfast!
This first pic is my favorite one....

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Hi Meg: Thanks for sharing Nigel's photo with us. He's a cutey pie!

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Meg, Nigel is one Handsome Greek :). Great Pics of him. I too love him pulling on the lettuce leaf in the first pic.
 

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He looks great, Meg! Bright eyed and happy! Glad you are so in love with him!!! Makes us happy!!
 

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We're sooo happy with him Kelly! He's so much more than we could have
asked for!

A wonderful introduction to the world of torts! I have to keep myself
away from petco now, so I don't buy a Russian!

He's really sweet. Comfortable enough now to start being picky
as far as his lettuces go! :p he leaves all of the red and green chard on
the plate...he always tries to avoid the red leaf lettuce now too...little stinker! The Frisée is his favorite!

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He's a good eater! eventually he was like, "camera? pssssh. I'm eating here!"
 

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Hi Meg, glad to see you over here:D...Nigel is a great name for such a handsome dude.
It is hard to stay away from the tort section in Petsmart...lol
I used to troll the kingsnake classifieds as well. It only made the cravings worse lol.
These torts are like potato chips...you can't just have one.:)
 

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I was just wondering....is there any perticular method of telling age on a tortoise?

Not to sound naive but, its nothing like rings on a tree right? :shy:

I was wondering because I measured Nigel today, and he tops out at one or two millimeters over 5 and 3/4 inches....

And Kelly had mentioned that when she first had him (over a year ago) he was 5.5 inches...

If there is a way to tell age, I can get some more detailed photos of him.
lemmeknow!
 

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Yes it is like rings on a tree :D He's probably 9 or 10 years old.

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Thanks Danny!
 

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I've been looking around for these pics of Nigel, Tallula looks alot like him, smooth shell....but her black spots in each scute are much more pronounced than Nigels....they're definitely family :D And she's just a tiny tiny but darker on the shell. I need to put more pics up :D
 
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