# Growth Stages

### What are the different growth stages?

After a turtle is born, it still requires special attention for a while before it is fully grown and matured. During this phrase, players have to feed "nourishing food" in order to grow the newborn turtle. For every phrase, a different amount of "nourishing food" is needed for the turtle to evolve to the next stage. There are a total of 3 evolution stages:

* Hatchling - Require 5 food to evolve
* Juvenile - Require 10 food to evolve
* Fully Grown - N/A

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There is a limit of how much food our cute turtles can take in a day. They are only able to take in 5 "nourishing food" a day max, making the process of a hatchling to a fully grown a minimum of 3 days.
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### Trait Reveal

Like humans, some visual traits are not visible upon birth. Therefore players have to grow their turtles to the fullest in order to reveal their traits. Here are the traits that are revealed at each phase: 

* Hatchling: Only Elemental Attribute & Stats revealed
* Juvenile: Only Elemental Attribute, Stats & personality revealed
* Fully Grown: Elemental Attribute, Stats, personality & Visible Traits revealed 

Players are able to list turtles on the Marketplace regardless of phases. This allows players to seek or sell turtles of certain traits, stats, and natures before committing more resources on the turtles.

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*Only turtles that are Juvenile or higher are able to participate in Diving or PVP*
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