Artemis has always showed a waistline

[Beasty_Artemis]

So if my maturish ( born 2016 ) red foot Artemis has always exhibited a waistline, does this exhibit more masculine traits...?(!)
I have seen the peanut shape for years now...

 

[DoubleD1996!]

Yep. It's called wasping

 

[Beasty_Artemis]

Really? I have never heard that terminology. I have only heard it called the peanut shape, and a waistline

 

[Cathie G]

Really? I have never heard that terminology. I have only heard it called the peanut shape, and a waistline

Sapphire had a waistline when I first got him. He's a little tortoise still but over the years he filled out and got the middle age spread. This is a subject I'm not totally sure about. So if an expert says different believe them. I think your tortoise is still fairly young though. Sapphire was maybe 4 or 5 years and your tortoise is around 6 but a larger type so it would take longer to get there and fill out..🙏

 

[wellington]

Sapphire had a waistline when I first got him. He's a little tortoise still but over the years he filled out and got the middle age spread. This is a subject I'm not totally sure about. So if an expert says different believe them. I think your tortoise is still fairly young though. Sapphire was maybe 4 or 5 years and your tortoise is around 6 but a larger type so it would take longer to get there and fill out..🙏

I always thought the females got that shape. But I'm no expert, specially with RF. Possibly both can get it?

 

[Beasty_Artemis]

Nobody?

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Male RF often get an "hourglass" figure along with a concaved plastron and fatter, longer tails

 

[Cathie G]

I always thought the females got that shape. But I'm no expert, specially with RF. Possibly both can get it?

On my Russian it wasn't pronounced. I just thought it kind of designated that he was a teenager. And since a tortoise grows at a slow pace (in only theory) their parts could fill out slow too like a human teenager. See how dumb I am 😭 I tried to Google wasping in a tortoise and couldn't find a thing.

 

[wellington]

On my Russian it wasn't pronounced. I just thought it kind of designated that he was a teenager. And since a tortoise grows at a slow pace (in only theory) their parts could fill out slow too like a human teenager. See how dumb I am 😭 I tried to Google wasping in a tortoise and couldn't find a thing.

I don't think Russians take on a different shape at all. The females are usually bigger is all. Only the RF takes on the hour glass shape that I know of.
Russian males also don't concave.

 

[Cathie G]

I don't think Russians take on a different shape at all. The females are usually bigger is all. Only the RF takes on the hour glass shape that I know of.
Russian males also don't concave.

It wasn't pronounced. He just seemed to not look mature. I don't know how to describe it for you to understand what I mean. He just looked thinner through the waste but now he doesn't. I don't even know if that is a problem for RFs. Is it? I couldn't find by Google the term wasping of a tortoises shell and I sure in the heck ain't going to Facebook to find out what it is.🤗

 

[Beasty_Artemis]

I got Artemis online in 2016

 

[Beasty_Artemis]

I need to build a new bigger tortoise table!

 

[Cathie G]

I need to build a new bigger tortoise table!

That sounds like the story of most people here. Not only do we need to but we want to. Bigger and better.🤗