Meet Elsa!!!

[Moozillion]

Elsa is my very first tort! She is an Eastern Hermann's, 4.5 inches long and 9.45 oz. She arrived right on time and in great condition!! Thanks so much, Tyler!!! A nice warm soak perked her right up, and she passed a nice white urate blob and a big poop! Lunch was organic spring mix, organic collards, a slice of portobello mushroom dusted with Repashy supplement with some pesticide-free pink rose petals for dessert, but she's not really hungry right now, and has burrowed COMPLETELY down in the substrate somewhere in the vicinity of her basking light. I think this is a great start to a beautiful relationship!!!

 

[KBisMe]

Aww she's beautiful! Congrats on your new baby!

 

[coreyc]

Congrat's on Elsa she looks great

 

[wellington]

CONGRATS AGAIN She looks fantastic. You will not believe how much they will steal your heart. Enjoy.

 

[Terry Allan Hall]

Elsa looks great...nice coloring, too!

4-1/2" is how long Apollonia was when I got her last year...now she's almost 7"...they grow so fast!

 

[pemry3]

Love the shell pattern! Very cute! Enjoy and have fun with her.

 

[Irwin4530]

Congrats!!

 

[kathyth]

Elsa is a real beauty!
If she only knew your preparation for this moment!
Rnjoy her!
Dmgrats.

 

[Moozillion]

Thanks so much!!! I am so glad I got her!

 

[mainey34]

Congrats, she looks great. Enjoy her...

 

[theresal]

And the "sickness" begins.....before long you will want another. I am glad you have joined in on the fun. Congrats on your new addition!!

 

[Creedence]

She looks great congrats!

 

[Laurie]

She's very pretty! Congratulations

 

[Yellow Turtle]

She looks very nice

 

[korinne]

How old is Elsa?

 

[Moozillion]

I have no idea how old she is. The breeder I got her from imported her (along with a bunch of others) from a farm in Europe this past Spring. (The Hermann's he breeds himself he sells as hatchlings) I would really like to hear from other Hermann's owners their guesses on the age of a healthy female Hermann's who is 4.5 inches long.

 

[Terry Allan Hall]

I have no idea how old she is. The breeder I got her from imported her (along with a bunch of others) from a farm in Europe this past Spring. (The Hermann's he breeds himself he sells as hatchlings) I would really like to hear from other Hermann's owners their guesses on the age of a healthy female Hermann's who is 4.5 inches long.

Just guessing, but possibly 4 yoa.

 

[Moozillion]

Thanks! I was kind of thinking 3 or 4.

 

[Terry Allan Hall]

Thanks! I was kind of thinking 3 or 4.

It's difficult to be accurate as a particular tortoise, because even one fed exactly the same amount of the same foods, living under the exact same conditions, can be very different in size from the rest of his/her litter-mates, so a guess is the best we can do w/o knowing his/her specific hatchdate.

What I can tell you is that Jennifer was about 4" in April of 2010 and is now around 8-1/2", and Apollonia was almost 4-1/2" about July of 2011, and is now around 6-1/4".

Weigh/measure Elsa on the 1st of each month, so as to monitor her growth...it's pretty interesting!

 

[Moozillion]

Will do!