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  1. TortoiseBlobs

    Help! Hermanns “gasping”(?)

    Hi everyone, Up front I’ll just say that while typing this, things feel less scary than when I started. But I’d still love some consult! Kirby, my 6 yo Dalmatian Hermanns started acting distressed this evening after eating some pellets of mushy mazuri. She was doing the following in 5-15 sec...
  2. TortoiseBlobs

    Its been weeks--How long should I leave my 5 year old burrowed?

    I tried hard to find the answer elsewhere and the fact that my wife and I were unsuccessful makes me all the more concerned. Kirby, a Dalmatian Herman’s I got as a hatchling in 2015 (and posted about back then), has spent April and May in weeks long periods of burrowing. I dug her out after a...
  3. TortoiseBlobs

    Quick Update on Kirby: Before and After Size Picture

    Hi all, I just wanted to quickly share a PDF I made showing Kirby, our Dalmation Hermann's Tortoise at about 3 months old and again at 1 year and 3 months.
  4. TortoiseBlobs

    Progress Update for My New Hermann's Hatchling Enclosure

    Hi all, In the interest of sharing, I'd like to post some pics of our in-progress Hermann's hatchling enclosure. When I first began constructing this, we thought we might get a full sized tortoise, hence the large book case. Since then we were convinced to get a hatchling, so I...
  5. TortoiseBlobs

    Greetings from TortoiseBlob, soon to be new owner

    Hello all, I have been reading through countless threads on this site for weeks now, so I figured it was time to make an introduction. My wife and I owned a Smiling Terrapin (Siebenrockiella crassicollis) for over 18 years when she died a year ago (she was approximately 27 when she died which...
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