Another died

Just did another head count, and only 16 of them were there. Possibly a female. I counted 4 females, which is incorrect compare to my record, there should be 5 females left. I will do another count at next clean up.

Just an update

Nothing much going on lately, summer is here, and they’re very active all the time. They mostly stay emerged unless I disturbed them too much. I did another count, and confirmed that there are 6 females and 11 males. Diet hasn’t changed much, a mix of dried grass, forest tortoise food and Eucalyptus globulus every few days, and once in awhile some other mix of dried Eucalyptus to keep food interesting, not that I think they care though… LOL I also spray their box once every few days just to keep things a little damped. I’ll do a measurement taking next time.

Detail count confirmed 1 died

Just did a detail count, and confirmed that 1 has died, according to their sizes, it was the “little odd one” which never grew or molted, so it probably met to die anyway.

Others have obviously grew quite a bit, males grew faster, the smallest 3 were all females, but they are ready for another molt soon so i guess the size difference would be minimal.

I counted 11 males, and 6 females, which means the one died was a male. All males counted for were quite large compare to the females, that’s how I confirm the one died was the small never-molted male.

Food regimen hasn’t changed since Jan 2012, except offered a bit of Liquidambar formosana a few times just to fresh them up.

Another update, I believed 1 died

Just did a head count, and I believed the little odd one, the one look weird and never molted in last 6 months disappeared, so now I have only 17 left. I will do a thorough counting later this week see if I still have 6 females left.

Update

I have been in hospital last month, and also have been resting home since then, so I didn’t get any chance to get them anything fresh. They have been living on a regular diet only consist of dried grass/hay mix for tortoise, tortoise food pellets, and with a bit of crushed Eucalyptus torelliana for over a month now. They seem to be happy, and stay emerged most of the time except the smaller 2, but I can see them from time to time too.