Up and around!

I'm really relived and glad that he's got his vigor back. He hardly close eye eyes and spread his legs loosely, basking on the log now.

Recovering from serious illness~

He was lying down on the log droopingly with closed eyes and spreaded legs. He also lost his appetite. I took him to one of a few vets who examine the reptiles. He was given shots of glucose and assumingly antibiotics and also was dropped eyewater on the eyes. I have given him eyewater-drops from two different eyewater bottles at a couple of minutes interval.
Several days after, he became active.
I was exclusively giving him fleshes of shrimps, dried anchovies and porks that he used to gorge on when he was healthy. For the first several days, he would try on bites but couldn't swallow successfully. The foods were springing back out of the mouth. However, now he can swallow and is moving around inside tank as usual.

May they live long healthy and happy!

Larry was ill, so I took out all of Larry's tankmates and fed Larry alone. These are my young kids who I wish long lives.
This was before I took him to a vet. I put him in a bowl so to see how he was.
My northern Diamondback Terrapin. I thank her for never bothering her tankmates.
Now I got to believe that this one is a male. His eye is gradually darkening.
You can tell maleness by the tail.

Larry being on the cure~

His a eye has been in part layed with thin flim lately and his under-lip skin seem to have wounded.
So, he lost his appetite little bit these days.
I put some reptile medicine on the wounds.
I fed him slices of porks to recover his appetite.
I'm really glad that he's gorging on them.
He's is exhilarating, always showing his curiosity.
Camera-loving as always been!

Time to change her(his) name?

What about the eyes.
They seem to have been blacked at least in a different tone from the female's.
I really like her(his) oval shaped carapace.
We can get a closer look at her(his) tail.
What do you think?
Is it female's like everybody thought before or the proof that everybody was wrong?

Still confusing if she is a male~

You know, I named her "Maria" in the first place.

Why have I always been confused if she was male?
Since many people agreed that the tail distance from the plastron was females, I have been keeping her with females.

But one day, she was climbing on other females in a mating stance.

I really was interested, thinking this one might've been a male.

From the moment right on, I put her with males and no male seems to have courted her.

Now, I'm getting a feeling that I have to start call this one not her but him.

Well, from this angle, the tail seems thick enough of male.
She(He) is always very actively moving around, it always takes quite an effort to get her(his) whole body in a picture.
When I posted the picture of her tail location off plastron a couple of years ago, everybody said that it just looked like female's.
If she(he) has a round eyes.
The eyes seem to have been blackened, haven't they? Which is the distinctive sign of a male.

The Stallion

Look at his tail! The length and thickness epitomize the fertility very well.

To breed up new babies, this could be the perfect male.

He impregantes the females ones better than other males I've ever seen.
Behind all male dominant character, he has innocent eyes.
I like the way his carapace is convexed.