Shorty's growth over time. updates all in one thread.

[Melly-n-shorty]

Shorty is now 1 year old as (as of 5/15). he got a tiny slice of strawberry to celebrate! Shorty is now 189 grams! looking back at my first picture of him its hard to believe its the same tortoise below! he is the larger of the two in the pictures

what do you think he is looking like so far? i know its to early to really tell just curious what you guys think

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ps as you can see his shell has improved since i changed his hide to a "tom style" humid hide

 

[Melly-n-shorty]

just realized in the last 4 months he has grown 88 grams!!!!

 

[Melly-n-shorty]

Not even a guess as to what sex he is looking like?

 

[Zamric]

Very nice lookin 1 year old! as for sex....hehehehe still way to early!

 

[Melly-n-shorty]

thank you! I am so happy i changed up his hide. he is growing so much better! I know i have a while till he can be sexed... i was just wondering if he/she was starting to lean one way or the other. it would be neat to see how much the bottom changes over time.

 

[DreadHeadMomma]

He's grown so much His shell is gorgeous.

 

[Melly-n-shorty]

He's grown so much His shell is gorgeous.

Ha ha thank you!! He is smoothing out well. A couple years from now it's going to be cool to look back at all the changes on these threads! Your baby Donatello is getting big too!

 

[n3rdchik]

Amazing and adorable.

 

[Melly-n-shorty]

Amazing and adorable.

Thank you very much . Here is a rear view doing this with my phone... Let's hope it works.

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[jesst]

He looks great!! What a handsome little guy: -)

 

[Melly-n-shorty]

Shorty is now over 200 grams... my little guy is growing up!

new pics to show off his new growth:

shorty 6/25/12, 236g, 3 1/2"

side view. hard to see in the picture but the pyramiding is smothing out. He is starting to get a flat space between them. I hate to even show it

and i had to hold him up for a solid 2 minutes to wait for him to poke his head out to get this shot. its almost like he hates having his picture taken! maybe i should put a big red sticker on my phone!

 

[jesst]

What a handsome guy you have there.

 

[Melly-n-shorty]

What a handsome guy you have there.

thank you he is so camera shy. He has so much more personality when i am not trying to take a picture of him. he tries to chase my hand out of his pen every morning when i am trying to clean it up.

 

[Melly-n-shorty]

ok so its been a long while since the last update... Sorry!

Shorty really loved spending the summer outside. his growth slowed down a bit because he started grazing really well, so I cut back on supplementing his diet with Mazuri. I gave him a little bit of it once every couple weeks but other then that he was eating grass, weeds, bird seed weeds, hibiscus, the occasional pansy plant and cactus. now that his is for the winter he is getting more Mazuri, especially because the frost killed most of the plants in his pen.

anyways... here he is as of today. 1/18/13... 436g and 4.5" hard to believe that nickel used to be almost as big as him.

Side view... his pyramiding has slowed down and I just love his little spot by his back leg!

Almost as round as a softball lol

 

[shellibelli72]

He is gorgeous! Love the cream colors coming through.

 

[CtTortoiseMom]

Wow, shorty is sooooo beautiful!! You are doing an amazing job! Our babies are only a month apart.

 

[MasterOogway]

What a handsome boy! Wow. you have done a great job. He is looking good.

 

[Melly-n-shorty]

Wow, shorty is sooooo beautiful!! You are doing an amazing job! Our babies are only a month apart.

lol except Shorty is tiny compared to Chewy! thank you. I love my big grumpy guy... or gal.

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He is gorgeous! Love the cream colors coming through.

thank you and he is dry in the pictures! I took them before I soaked him.

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What a handsome boy! Wow. you have done a great job. He is looking good.

thank you! we had a little bit of a rough start but he is starting to slowly smooth out.

 

[Melly-n-shorty]

At what age does a leopard tortoise's growth start to slow down?