girl_in_a_curl
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Hi all, I'm a first time breeder and have had 6 hermanns eggs hatch over the last few days. There is one tortoise I am worried about. She was the only one to leave her egg with some yolk sack remaining and I'm worried it is not absorbing and doesn't look right.
She left her egg on Monday at 4pm and now it's Thursday morning. It has gone down in size since Monday, but it looks the same today as it did yesterday. It also looks different to other pictures as have seen. It's gone kind of red and shrivelled and it looks like it's making a huge gap in her plastron.
She has been in the brooder box which has a base of damp paper towels and leaves and some sphagnum moss at one end. Today I moved her to a smaller pot with just damp paper towels then covered her with sphagnum moss.
Any advice on how I should handle this? Does it look normal in the pictures or is she in trouble?
Also, when I held her like this for the pictures her shell is flexing in and out as she breathes. It makes her seem so delicate. Is that supposed to happen?
Thank,
Karen
She left her egg on Monday at 4pm and now it's Thursday morning. It has gone down in size since Monday, but it looks the same today as it did yesterday. It also looks different to other pictures as have seen. It's gone kind of red and shrivelled and it looks like it's making a huge gap in her plastron.
She has been in the brooder box which has a base of damp paper towels and leaves and some sphagnum moss at one end. Today I moved her to a smaller pot with just damp paper towels then covered her with sphagnum moss.
Any advice on how I should handle this? Does it look normal in the pictures or is she in trouble?
Also, when I held her like this for the pictures her shell is flexing in and out as she breathes. It makes her seem so delicate. Is that supposed to happen?
Thank,
Karen