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A good read here. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-the-turtle-got-its-shell-through-skeletal-shifts-and-muscular-origami

Thats answered a few questions I’ve been asking myself for a while now. I didn’t know the ribs flattened out to create the bone structure. I thought thought the fontanels filled in from the rib cage but ribs remained a different structure of bone. Cheers Mark.

@Markw84 Got me thinking now. If the ribs are aligned with areola and the adjacent scute seem I was thinking the rib would not allow pyramiding once the rib bone is well established. But the thickness of the bone plate is allowing pyramiding and not effecting the ribs isn’t it ?

I think that smaller one must be in heaven with all that food. It’s like me laying in a bed of chocolate 😂

That all makes sense now I can see what your saying is a smooth tort later having the valleys like in that Aldabra. When your referring to the bones not at the scute seems your talking about bone plates aren’t you? Scute plates and bone plates overlap (like brick work) to create strength...

Thanks. I’m moving house soon. If all goes to plan that is. The new place has much more land with it. So I’ll be starting over with a new bigger enclosure. Looking forward to that.

That answered my question. And my bad clubbing humidity in with husbandry.

So what your saying is you can correct a pyramided tort (to some degree) to its natural bone growth path because it’s mature bones are always wanting that natural path with correct husbandry. But a tort with mature bones that are already on it’s natural growth path(smooth) won’t veer off the...

Something I’ve often thought about and never understood why. You can get a pyramided tortoise and improve it’s husbandry so the new growth grows on in its correct plane (flatter). But I have never ever seen a smooth tortoise once established(hardened off, ossification is complete) start to...

Nice work. The growth since you had her is a lot flatter.

Everyone feel free to add photos. 👍

This one is a very shy Brazilian. 10”.

This one is 11” long and has an extra scute.

A few photos of a couple torts I cleaned up. This one is 13” now, the one next to her is typically what my torts look like. Muddy as hell.

In winter they slow down. No matter if you have them indoors at 30deg c. They feel atmospheric pressure and slow down.