RatQueen_Irene
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Hello! It's Kepler's birthday today so I measured him, but looking around it seems like he's massive compared to other people's eastern hermann tortoises, and quite developed in the tail. Is this normal size/weight? He matches a 4 year old tortoise better it seems, but I've observed him personally since a squishy-shelled hatchling.
He eats a varied diet of miscellaneous safe weeds, dark romaine, and mazuri. Humidity has been religiously maintained at 70-90% with T5 uvb and cuttlebone.
He's 325g, and nearly 4.5 inches long, with a Jackson ratio around 0.21 I think. I know for a fact I got him as a baby almost exactly a year ago, at around 1.25 inches long. He has some mild pyramiding viewed from head on, but humidity is so consistently high I think it's unavoidable, and in a low enough degree to be okay.
Are there any steps I should take? Is he just chonky?
Is an open top enclosure advisable at this point, or is a vivarium still best for smooth further growth?
He eats a varied diet of miscellaneous safe weeds, dark romaine, and mazuri. Humidity has been religiously maintained at 70-90% with T5 uvb and cuttlebone.
He's 325g, and nearly 4.5 inches long, with a Jackson ratio around 0.21 I think. I know for a fact I got him as a baby almost exactly a year ago, at around 1.25 inches long. He has some mild pyramiding viewed from head on, but humidity is so consistently high I think it's unavoidable, and in a low enough degree to be okay.
Are there any steps I should take? Is he just chonky?
Is an open top enclosure advisable at this point, or is a vivarium still best for smooth further growth?
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