Hi Tom thanks for your informative and helpful reply, from my knowledge too much protein causes the keratin layer of the shell to grow faster than the bony plates beneath it causing shell scutes to develop, also as you rightly point out when they are babies a very low humidity results in severe...
Hi Tom thanks for your reply. I only use a heat lamp as a supplement heat source when it is extremely cold.His usual heat source is from a pig mat.He lives in his insulated shed where he comes and goes throughout the year and has plenty of land to graze on
The pyramiding you see on his carapace...