Here I am in the PNW yet I lack any local tortoise people. Mostly I turn people into tortoise people.
Agreed....I wasn't sure till they were 10"...what they were unless they showed me. One thing for sure with SA...at least the 20 plus I have raised so far...if they are fast growers...99% sure they are male...all my males turned out that way and all females were slow growers.
One thing for sure with SA...at least the 20 plus I have raised so far...if they are fast growers...99% sure they are male...all my males turned out that way and all females were slow growers.
I'll bet that two or three of the smaller ones are female. For some reason the females grow slower in the first couple of years.
Have you made any changes from how you keep them compared to your first pp group?
That's a high percent of mazuri and it seems to be yielding good results for you. I may have to step up my mazuri game. They usually get mazuri every 3 days for my group.I have this group in the exact same set up as my others. The only change I made was switching from coco coir (supper messy) to coco chips (less messy). Diet is the same with about 50% soaked Mazuri and 50% grass/weeds/ leaves etc. They get daily soaks. Humidity in their basking side is 90 - 95%. I had very good success in the past with the current set up so I see no reason to change it.
This group seems to really go after the cuttlebone when they are in the natural sunlight even though I always have some in their indoor enclosure with UVB light. I've noticed it with some others but not to this extent.View attachment 226652
There are ALMOST big enough to ship to me now . I guess I’ll let you grow them out a little more first [emoji13]