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I have some cuttlebone in there right now but he hasn’t touched it yet, kinda just walks over and smells it and then walks away. I’ve been keeping the UVB on for 4 hours because I saw someone say that it mimics the UVB they would receive in the wild! I think from the top of his shell I measured...

Okay gotcha, thank you. I just ordered him some Repcal ultra fine calcium with vitamin D3, and his UVB is T5 HO 10.0 UVB from ZooMed.

I haven’t noticed any symptoms like that. He’s pretty active and doesn’t appear to have a difficulty walking or lifting himself up. This what his shell looks like from the side, so I definitely see what you mean by the depression. Should I just watch out for symptoms or is there anything else...

Understood, thank you for the reply. I started with some clipping today but he was not very cooperative and I did not want to hurt him. I also noticed while clipping that his lower jaw may have some cracks leading down from the weird deformed middle section? I’m not entirely sure though and I...

Hello! Thank you for the welcome. His shell has pyramiding down the center scutes but it’s firm which is good. I was concerned about MBD but am not informed enough on the symptoms. I attached a photo that I have on me but I can take one with better lighting tomorrow, let me know if anything...

Hello, I am a new member here as I’ve just come into care of a 5 yr old male Hermann tortoise. His previous care taker was missing a lot of the marks including improper diet, lighting, heat, and substrate. I’ve fixed him up a new enclosure with all the suggestions from this forum, and have...