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PHRatz
at Mon Jun 20 08:42:04 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by PHRatz ]
If she's totally ornate I wonder then if someone feeding her cat food may have caused her to grow too fast, develop the pyramiding, become very large, and she may be younger than we might think?
I'm just thinking out loud again because...
Our terribly pyramided sulcata tortoise was small for a sulcata when she was found dumped out in the country 3 years ago, she weighed only 9 pounds.
I thought then that she may be at least 10 years old but after reading, hearing from other sulcata keepers, & then watching her grow so quickly as she's been allowed to graze at will as the appearance of the pyramids have diminished; I've wondered if she's actually younger than we'd originally thought. She's put on a lot of weight- 41 lbs in 3 years. Charity has also been on a corrected diet & is gaining too even though I don't feed her daily.
Ok I like to ramble on things that make me go hmmmmm.. so that's enough for now.  ----- PHRatz
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