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    Pyramiding is due to excess Heat, not lack of Humidity?

    Yes. The study argues forced quick growth = pyramiding. Overnight heat is one way you get there.
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    Pyramiding is due to excess Heat, not lack of Humidity?

    Um... the Sahel region, native to Sulcatas and Leopards, has significant night temperature drops year round. Average temperature drops from daytime 28C to 14C at night in the winter months. The study did not say anything about room temperature or not feeding them, I don't know what you're on...
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    Pyramiding is due to excess Heat, not lack of Humidity?

    This study suggests excess temperature and related quick growth - not low humidity - is the key factor that results in pyramiding. I realize many have raised smooth tortoises in using humidity / soaks, but perhaps they also had their temperatures correct, and it was the temperatures and not the...
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    Pyramiding is due to excess Heat, not lack of Humidity?

    That paragraph was poorly written. If we look at the rest of the article, we can see that the key variable between the treatment and control groups was over night / nocturnal temperature. Abstract states: The results of this research investigation indicate that growth rate and CSP appear to be...
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    Pyramiding is due to excess Heat, not lack of Humidity?

    "Each group was placed in a 79-L black plastic mixing tub, with no substrate, on a 72-watt heated mat (model PHM28, Kane Manufacturing Co., Inc., Des Moines, IA USA) equivalent in size to the tub’s base. Treatment and control groups were set side by side. Treatment heat mats were connected to a...
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    Pyramiding is due to excess Heat, not lack of Humidity?

    Hatchlings were separated into 2 groups: one using an overnight heat mat (93 F), the other with no overnight artificial heat (66F). Humidity was the same for both groups at 36%. The group with overnight heat developed pyramiding. The group with no overnight heat grew smooth. The study...
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    Pyramiding is due to excess Heat, not lack of Humidity?

    As posted today on Facebook. Apologies if this has been posted here already. http://www.exoticpetmedicine.com/article/S1557-5063(15)00185-8/fulltext#s0005 Beyond purely a cosmetic deformity, carapacial scute pyramiding (CSP) is of concern for tortoise health based on compromise of the...
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    Coconut Oil

    The high humid argument did not need to raise hatchlings side by side to prove its value. The control group was available in past experiences of raising hatchlings in low humidity. There is no such historical control group here. Has anyone had pyramiding issues in lamp heated open table...
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    Coconut Oil

    This "experiment" has limited value. We can learn nothing about the positive effects of coconut oil from this. Yes, your tortoises look good. But that may be due to your husbandry practices aside from the oil. The oil may be doing nothing at all. You can cite facts about the properties of...
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