Growth Spurt

[H20nyxx]

Over half a pound baby Taffy here!!!! How we doing @Tom? They love hanging out with me, and currently prefer to poo when I’m holding them (hope they don’t expect this at 20+lbs! ) and they really lean into shell rubs on their left rear side now!

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

Soooo cute!! There is some pyramiding starting there, did baby have that before you got them?

 

[wellington]

I agree there is slight pyramiding. Be sure to be housing in a closed chamber with 80% humidity and no mercury or halogen bulbs.
It's so slight that if you are housing him correctly, it won't even be noticeable when he's bigger.

 

[H20nyxx]

Soooo cute!! There is some pyramiding starting there, did baby have that before you got

Oi……. How do I avoid getting this response EVERY. SINGLE. TIME I post till they are older and the pyramiding has reduced? We are very aware…….. we’ve had them since June and live in a desert. They are being cared for as per Tom’s sheet and have a lovely humid box per those instructions. You can even see in the first photo we took (held up in the air a bit) that the pyramiding had already started and we are doing our best to fix it. She’s so much rounder than she was, and the point looks worse than it is. It’s smoothed out over that time and I look forward to a time where we can’t tell at all.

 

[H20nyxx]

I agree there is slight pyramiding. Be sure to be housing in a closed chamber with 80% humidity and no mercury or halogen bulbs.
It's so slight that if you are housing him correctly, it won't even be noticeable when he's bigger.

Oi……. How do I avoid getting this response EVERY. SINGLE. TIME I post till they are older and the pyramiding has reduced? We are very aware…….. we’ve had them since June and live in a desert. They are being cared for as per Tom’s sheet and have a lovely humid box per those instructions.

 

[H20nyxx]

I agree there is slight pyramiding. Be sure to be housing in a closed chamber with 80% humidity and no mercury or halogen bulbs.
It's so slight that if you are housing him correctly, it won't even be noticeable when he's bigger.

Reposting my reply because I’m having issues with the site this morning.

Oi……. How do I avoid getting this response EVERY. SINGLE. TIME I post till they are older and the pyramiding has reduced? We are very aware…….. we’ve had them since June and live in a desert. They are being cared for as per Tom’s sheet and have a lovely humid box per those instructions.

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

Reposting my reply because I’m having issues with the site this morning.

Oi……. How do I avoid getting this response EVERY. SINGLE. TIME I post till they are older and the pyramiding has reduced? We are very aware…….. we’ve had them since June and live in a desert. They are being cared for as per Tom’s sheet and have a lovely humid box per those instructions.

Apologies! I was unfamiliar with your user name and mistakenly thought you were new

 

[H20nyxx]

Apologies! I was unfamiliar with your user name and mistakenly thought you were new

That’s okay! I hope I did not come across as rude, I was simply frustrated.

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

That’s okay! I hope I did not come across as rude, I was simply frustrated.

That’s completely understandable! Sorry I do usually check if there’s previous posts but didn’t today, my bad

 

[H20nyxx]

That’s completely understandable! Sorry I do usually check if there’s previous posts but didn’t today,

That’s okay! I hope I did not come across as rude, I was simply frustrated.

That’s completely understandable! Sorry I do usually check if there’s previous posts but didn’t today, my bad

It happens! No worries. Taffy put on 28 grams in 3.5 days!!!!

 

[zovick]

It happens! No worries. Taffy put on 28 grams in 3.5 days!!!!

Wow! That is a huge weight gain for that amount of time. Your tortoise must be eating quite a lot of food (which is not a problem).

Good job.

 

[Megatron's Mom]

Adorable

 

[H20nyxx]

Wow! That is a huge weight gain for that amount of time. Your tortoise must be eating quite a lot of food (which is not a problem).

Good job.

Oh yeah. She gets access to as much food as she wants.