Weight Gain?

[Lea987!]

I recently adopted a baby sulcata tortoise on (October 23, 2020) that was under 55grams (so i'm assuming he was only a couple weeks old). It is now December 14, 2020, and he's roughly 74grams. Would anyone be able to tell me roughly how many weeks that he is, and if that is a healthy weight gain?

EDIT: First photo is 12/14/2020 // Second photo is on 10/23/2020

 

[Tom]

I recently adopted a baby sulcata tortoise on (October 23, 2020) that was under 55grams (so i'm assuming he was only a couple weeks old). It is now December 14, 2020, and he's roughly 74grams. Would anyone be able to tell me roughly how many weeks that he is, and if that is a healthy weight gain?

EDIT: First photo is 12/14/2020 // Second photo is on 10/23/2020

No. They all grow at vastly different rates and for a wide variety of reasons. At 74 grams, you are out of the woods, and your baby is one of the ones that will survive.

Read this for current and correct care info. Most of what you find is old wrong info,

The Best Way To Raise A Sulcata, Leopard, Or Star Tortoise

I chose the title of this care sheet very carefully. Are there other ways to raise babies? Yes. Yes there are, but those ways are not as good. What follows is the BEST way, according to 30 years of research and experimentation with hundreds of babies of many species. Babies hatch during the...

tortoiseforum.org

 

[Lea987!]

No. They all grow at vastly different rates and for a wide variety of reasons. At 74 grams, you are out of the woods, and your baby is one of the ones that will survive.

Read this for current and correct care info. Most of what you find is old wrong info,

The Best Way To Raise A Sulcata, Leopard, Or Star Tortoise

I chose the title of this care sheet very carefully. Are there other ways to raise babies? Yes. Yes there are, but those ways are not as good. What follows is the BEST way, according to 30 years of research and experimentation with hundreds of babies of many species. Babies hatch during the...

tortoiseforum.org

Thank you so much!!!!! ?

 

[vladimir]

Thank you so much!!!!! ?

Welcome to the forum! please ask any questions you may have. If you haven't already noticed, Tom has a ton of experience in raising healthy tortoises and you can't go wrong following his advice.