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Hi all, just joined the forum so may take me a while to find my feet. Little bit of our background on our tortoises.

We have 10 adult redfoots(3.7.0), 3 juveniles at 2yrs old(0.0.3) and 1 hatchling coming up to 8 wks old, we had 2 but unfortunately my 1st hatchling unexpectedly past at 9wks old about 3wks ago.

We also have a group of homes hingebacks(2.3.0) I did have a forth female but she passed 3wks ago(same week as the redfoot hatchling). Gone through the mill lately :( . We had a postmortem done and basically she had a blockage in the esophagus.(a slug). Good news is we recently hatched out 3 clutches of homeana to 3 different females giving us 10 hatchlings. These guys are thriving and are about 8wks old now. 3 of them are from the female I lost, so her legacy carries on. I've also got another of her clutch in the incubator.(fingers crossed). We have 15 more homes eggs cooking too. Oh yeah, nearly forgot, 2 days ago one of our homeana eggs unexpectedly pipped(like 5 wks early). It was twins that didn't survive, they were dead before hatching.
Phew, that was a bit detailed for the first post.:-D


Thanks

Craig

Welcome Craig, blimey you have had lots of lows but thankfully some highs too ☺

Good luck with your hatchlings. I would love to see them ☺

Yeah, got to take rough with the smooth. To add to that 3 days ago one of my homeana eggs hatched early to reveal twins, both didn't make it out of the egg. After about 16hrs from pip, I opened the egg up to find them dead, rest of clutch still cooking.
Anyway. On with positives. Photos.(if I can work out how to load them lol). Nope. I'm stuck. HEEEELP. How to load photos please.

Ah I see, I can't post attachments yet, Is this because I have to have done a certain amount of posts to qualify?

Hello, again! Its 5 post still you can post photos, so you should be OK now. You use a photo hosting site such as photo bucket.ulp load to there then copy the IMG code here. Full details in a thread at top of photo section. :p

Sorry to hear about your twins. :(

Thanks. I'll have to see about this photo bucket thing.
Can't I load straight from phone or laptop.
Just noticed I already mentioned twins in 1st post. Oops.
Bin a looong wk.

Photo didn't work then. Lol. Never mind.

Hello Craig and welcome to forum.

My goodness you have been through the mill.

Using photobucket is not easy the first time. Someone kindly posted instructions but they didn't help me - trial and error! Not sure if this will help, but if you select photo in photobucket and click on the IMG (image box) this copies the picture and then you paste into this box on shelled warriors.

Good luck!

Look forward to the picks.