typical yearling leopard weights??

[MasterOogway]

Thank you!

 

[Mgridgaway]

These torts put Olive to shame in the growth category! I just weighed and measured her yesterday. She's just shy of one year and is about 3 3/8" and 120 grams-ish (I say ish because I don't have the most accurate scale in the world, especially for lower weights).

Here's a picture!

 

[jesst]

She is sooo cute!!

I dont think my little zuri's weight is typical. Yours seems to be the norm from everything I have read.

She looks great

 

[Mgridgaway]

She is sooo cute!!

I dont think my little zuri's weight is typical. Yours seems to be the norm from everything I have read.

She looks great

Thanks!

I still can't believe Zuri's size! She's only a little smaller than my year and half old redfoot!

 

[jesst]

Another weigh in..it has been 11 days sinfe the last weigh in.
Today he weighed....

 

[MasterOogway]

Another weigh in..it has been 11 days sinfe the last weigh in.
Today he weighed....

Beautiful!! What do you feed your leopard? Do you keep it in high humidity etc? Wanting mine to be happy & healthy too

 

[jesst]

Another weigh in..it has been 11 days sinfe the last weigh in.
Today he weighed....

Beautiful!! What do you feed your leopard? Do you keep it in high humidity etc? Wanting mine to be happy & healthy too

Thanks.
He will only eat dark greens, I have tried mazuri and zoo med but he hated it. I have always kept him in a closed chamber enclosure. This is his current one. This was when I first got it so it is kind of bare. It is 5x2. i still spray him daily and his humidity stays pretty high in his enclosure. I soak his substrate twice a month. I am using mulch and peat moss.

 

[MasterOogway]

He will only eat dark greens, I have tried mazuri and zoo med but he hated it. I have always kept him in a closed chamber enclosure. This is his current one. This was when I first got it so it is kind of bare. It is 5x2. i still spray him daily and his humidity stays pretty high in his enclosure. I soak his substrate twice a month. I am using mulch and peat moss.

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Thanks.Mine will only eat dark greens too.He doesn't want grass or weeds either. I keep trying the tortoise food but no way. I appreciate you explaining the details that is always a big help . I hope Master Oogway turns out just as beautiful.Thanks again!

 

[marcy4hope]

what a gorgeous tort! awesome. i have one that is just 3 months old and weighs 74 grams. he eats everything, all sorts of greens, mazuri, land tort food, everything. he's not been picky since i first got him when he was 2 months. he's doubled in weight since i got him too. yours looks great. thanks for posting this thread. it's great to see.

 

[LeopardTortLover]

What kind of enclosure is that? As in, what was it described as? Because most vivariums are a lot smaller than that and dont have holes for light fixtures. Did you make the holes yourself? I'm very impressed with that enclosure!

 

[jesst]

What kind of enclosure is that? As in, what was it described as? Because most vivariums are a lot smaller than that and dont have holes for light fixtures. Did you make the holes yourself? I'm very impressed with that enclosure!

It is a cages by design cage I got of craigslist.

 

[jesst]

It has been a few weeks since I last posted....and someone has broken the 600g mark. These are from yesterday

 

[Zamric]

Very Nice! Eros is about the size of those 2 top back scutes

 

[Lois]

Zenna who we think is a male and now call Zuri just reached 458g or a pound. He is only 11.5 months old. Also are there any known risks for them growing so fast?

Wow! I thought mine was growing fast! He is 1 year Feb.22 weights 200 grams. I've fed him grass,weeds,flowers,cactus. He seems to be getting a little pyramiding. I keep him in a tortoise table,cool dry end and moist basking end. MVB for basking.Cuttle bone and added cuttlebone powder on is greens. Sunshine when the weather permits.
Lois

 

[DesertGrandma]

Jess, my Humphrey looks just like Zuri. He is 1 year and 10 months now and is weighing in at 2 lbs. or apprx. 1000 grams. (s)He was exactly 500 grams on his first birthday.

 

[jesst]

Jess, my Humphrey looks just like Zuri. He is 1 year and 10 months now and is weighing in at 2 lbs. or apprx. 1000 grams. (s)He was exactly 500 grams on his first birthday.

He's a big boy too and very handsome.

 

[Kvoigt]

Zenna who we think is a male and now call Zuri just reached 458g or a pound. He is only 11.5 months old. Also are there any known risks for them growing so fast?

I have a sibling to yours also he hatched christmas and he is almost 500g at 14months my other one was 419 g at 18months when I got him and will be 3 in may and is 4lbs 11oz now. yay for happy torts

 

[jasonminister]

I don't think there are any risks really. Time will tell if there are any health issues with growing that fast, but I am not aware of any examples where a tortoise has suffered ailments from growing too fast.

That is very high for a babcocki leopard under a year. The tortoises from my smallest producing female typically range in the 100 - 200 gram mark after a year. I have had specimens from larger females top over 300 grams after a year, but never over 400. Locality genetics may be a factor in why yours has grown so fast.

Is 2kg and just over 9 inches a good weight and size for a male leopard tortoise at approximately 3 years old?

 

[jesst]

Yet again another weigh in and today he is 711g! That is an 120g weight gain this month :-0. I think he is going to be as big as my sullie

 

[Levi the Leopard]

120g in a month, wow!!