Seriously rapid growth? And other shell issues!
Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 4:03 pmIve had Enbi about a month and a half now and he's grown VERY significantly in that time, from 1.25" to 2.10"! I've been feeding him about a head's worth of Zoo-Med Hatchling Formula every day; he's be adamant for months about not eating any greens, but today, miraculously, he chowed down for the first time on romaine lettuce, so there's one hurdle *finally* overcome. Still, I'm worried about his shell health, for several reasons:
-- The spacing between his scutes has doubled since I've gotten him. I don't have a camera to take a good picture, but the black space between his green scutes is about half as wide as the individual scutes!
-- His shell is very slopped, and forms a prominent ridge down the center. I've read that this is common and will go away as he ages, but his seems to be getting worse. The very top of the ridge has also grown pale and it looks *almost* like he scraped it against something. There's no blood or foul smell, it just looks like it's been sanded a bit or something.
Slope/ridge:
Scraped ridge--you can see the space between his scutes here, too:
I'm cutting back his protein and giving him lots of veggies now that he'll finally eat them. what else can I do, and when can I expect him to shed his scutes for the first time?
-- The spacing between his scutes has doubled since I've gotten him. I don't have a camera to take a good picture, but the black space between his green scutes is about half as wide as the individual scutes!
-- His shell is very slopped, and forms a prominent ridge down the center. I've read that this is common and will go away as he ages, but his seems to be getting worse. The very top of the ridge has also grown pale and it looks *almost* like he scraped it against something. There's no blood or foul smell, it just looks like it's been sanded a bit or something.
Slope/ridge:
Scraped ridge--you can see the space between his scutes here, too:
I'm cutting back his protein and giving him lots of veggies now that he'll finally eat them. what else can I do, and when can I expect him to shed his scutes for the first time?
