I keep testudo myself, but recently noticed a Craigslist posting asking for help building a really nice indoor table for a sulcuta. While it WAS nice to see the enthusiasm to provide a beautiful and well-designed habitat, I was thinking that a properly kept sulcuta will outgrow an indoor table rather quickly, so I responded with the advice to consider making a proper outdoor set-up instead of sinking time and $$$ into the super deluxe style table they were describing and explained why. The poster responded to me saying that they got this female at 3 inches and now 4 years later it has only grown to 4.5 inches. This can't be a normal rate of growth, can it? Do people often keep 4+ year olds of this species in indoor tables? Please teach me! Thanks.
Too small?
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Maybe they got a Russian...pet stores often don't know the species
kaija2012 said:
Is is possible that they've misidentified their tortoise? 1.5" in 4 years seems more like a Russian or a Greek.
PALOALTO said:
Haha, Paloalto beat me to it.
kaija2012 said:
I hope not.
I hate hearing stories about those tiny, malformed tortoises that have been badly kept.
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