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Does this look like normal shell development for a 2.5 year old redfoot?
zhiv9
Jul 01, 2003 03:00 PM
Replies (17)
zhiv9
Jul 01, 2003 03:04 PM
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zhiv9
Jul 01, 2003 03:07 PM
here's one
zhiv9
Jul 01, 2003 03:07 PM
here's the other
prettykitty
Jul 01, 2003 04:25 PM
n/p
Country-girl3
Jul 01, 2003 05:03 PM
n/p
zhiv9
Jul 01, 2003 05:42 PM
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kurma
Jul 02, 2003 03:29 PM
what it that in the background all blurred behind what seems to be a cage?
Great photo
zhiv9
Jul 02, 2003 06:04 PM
Its a 3 tiered breeding cage for the maroon bellied and black capped conures that I breed
Thanks
Adam
kurma
Jul 02, 2003 03:29 PM
what it that in the background all blurred behind what seems to be a cage?
Great photo
kurma
Jul 02, 2003 03:29 PM
what it that in the background all blurred behind what seems to be a cage?
Great photo
Country-girl3
Jul 01, 2003 03:15 PM
I cannot access the picture!
zhiv9
Jul 01, 2003 03:40 PM
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Country-girl3
Jul 01, 2003 04:23 PM
Yup, tried them all and got nothing. Sorry
rattay
Jul 01, 2003 06:49 PM
Nice looking fellah! He has some early signs of pyramiding on his initial annuli but it appears to be smoothening out. All in all, if you maintain a proper diet and don't overfeed or provide too much protein, looks like you'll have a beautiful tortoise on your hands.
Congrats.
Paul
zhiv9
Jul 01, 2003 08:26 PM
The people i bought her from were feeding her the RepCal tortoise diet some of the time. I wonder if that caused it? I feed her exclusively on:
endive
collards
cale
dandelion
These compose 90% of her diet
The other ten percent is a little fruit weekly. And once a month
some soaked lower protein dog food.
All is dusted with repcal calcium and herptivite
rattay
Jul 01, 2003 08:50 PM
Sounds like a decent menu. Annuli are the growth rings on turtles and tortoises. The initial rings on your tort show the most pyramiding but then the begin to flatten out. You must be doing some things right.
Paul
johlum
Jul 02, 2003 07:36 AM
I'd make one recommendation to the green mix. It's an excellent selection, one that I use as a mix for our Russian's and Greek's also. Go with a 50% dandelion, 30% endive, 10% collard, and 10% kale. Collards and kale are fairly high in oxalic acid so if you move them to a lower percentage of your mix you may ameliorate some of the slight pyraminding, particlularly since this is a young Redfoot. They are both very good green's I just feel it's better to have them as a lower percentage of the diet.
You have a great looking Redfoot!
Good luck.
