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Update: This particular hatchling did not make it. It died on Friday, July 14th.

You may not think that something could be wrong with this hatchling..

But from a different angle, you will see that it is indeed different from the other normal and healthy hatchlings..

This weak hatchling was hatched from the eggs we purchased from Setiu. Apparently it was too weak to climb out of its egg shell and to the surface of the incubation box so my colleague took it out manually.

This hatchling was obviously pre-mature and it had some very obvious deformities as well. First off, its carapace is soo deformed that my colleague thought it could not survive for long. But it has shown otherwise, which is good news ;)

And both its front legs are also deformed, as shown in the next 2 pictures.

My colleague was keeping an eye over it (at home) for a couple of weeks and he brought it to the hatchery because he said it had started feeding. But when placed in the fiberglass tank together with >200 other hatchlings from Setiu, it remained floating and did not seem to feed like any other hatchlings.

So my colleague quarantined this poor thing and gave it a few pieces of kangkung leaves instead of pellets. Now, let’s just hope that he will come to the hatchery to change the water in the aquarium and give it fresh new leaves EVERDAY. Otherwise he would assume that rehabilitating any sick/weak terrapin is MY job..