Butterflea
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- May 29, 2015
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Hello!
I've often stumbled upon this place whilst googling tortoise related things and so I thought I'd actually make an effort to join instead of hovering around!
I live in the UK, the North East to be precise, and I have a roughly 2 year old Horsfield tortoise called Nozzy. We were told he was male, but after naming him and all that jazz, I've since learned they're pretty hard to sex until they're a few years old. So who knows!
Nozzy was bought from the Tortoise Shop in Hull last February (2014), he was a valentines day present and has taken over my entire life, I would never have thought it was possible to get so attached to a tortoise. I live just outside of hull so the shop wasn't too far away, and they told us he was a year old. When I took him to the vets for a general check up they said given his size and weight they would have put him around the 6 months marker, but couldn't be too sure.
He also had the start of pyramiding when we first got him, but after months of careful diet and living monitoring, his shell is looking so much better. He lives in a tort table, 50/50 playsand and topsoil mix.
Aside from that, he's a little monkey and loves to climb. He's currently loving the sunshine and I've never seen him this active! Although on the days it's too cold for him to be outside he sulks terribly (like today!).
Alice and Nozzy x
I've often stumbled upon this place whilst googling tortoise related things and so I thought I'd actually make an effort to join instead of hovering around!
I live in the UK, the North East to be precise, and I have a roughly 2 year old Horsfield tortoise called Nozzy. We were told he was male, but after naming him and all that jazz, I've since learned they're pretty hard to sex until they're a few years old. So who knows!
Nozzy was bought from the Tortoise Shop in Hull last February (2014), he was a valentines day present and has taken over my entire life, I would never have thought it was possible to get so attached to a tortoise. I live just outside of hull so the shop wasn't too far away, and they told us he was a year old. When I took him to the vets for a general check up they said given his size and weight they would have put him around the 6 months marker, but couldn't be too sure.
He also had the start of pyramiding when we first got him, but after months of careful diet and living monitoring, his shell is looking so much better. He lives in a tort table, 50/50 playsand and topsoil mix.
Aside from that, he's a little monkey and loves to climb. He's currently loving the sunshine and I've never seen him this active! Although on the days it's too cold for him to be outside he sulks terribly (like today!).
Alice and Nozzy x