Hi, Ellen! My terrapins were purchased from a pet shop in 2016. The store refused to tell their exact age when I bought them because of a reserved fear that the terrapins would not be sold if they were not young babies. The reptiles were deliberately underfed to prevent them from growing big and showing their age. They were half the size of an adult’s thumb, but expanded quickly. Now they’re the size of an adult’s palm. The male is considerably bigger than the female terrapin. I guess he’s older than the female. These two terrapins were from the same batch in the store’s aquarium but looking at them now, I would guess they were not hatched from the same batch of eggs.

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