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Breakfast in the bath of his own volition lol

Baskin

Tort buns

To give some idea and perspective of why people are saying they have metabolic bone disease, the top image is a healthy sulcata. The bottom one is similar to yours with spikey scutes and a bent-in shell, caused primarily by not having UVB (if looking for which to get, the most reliable is a T5...

Thanks! May be haha we'll see

Hello, my eastern hermann tort is probably still a little young, but I heard you can sex them sometimes at above 4 inches long, and the tort is a bit longer than that measuring straight horizontally down the shell. Casually curious, as the tort was I believe temperature sexed at a higher chance...

Just wanted to say thank you all for giving me advice in the beginning and seeing all the advice given in the past, I'm so glad I found you when I did. I thought I had everything together, but there probably would have been pyramiding due to ambient humidity issues, and he has a nice varied...

Lovely torts! I love seeing all the pattern variation there can be. Mine is an eastern hermanns from TortStork. Kepler as a hatchling and around 6 months :) He now uses his original bath dish as a water bowl, grew from 1.25 inches to around 3.5 inches long haha May be female, we'll have to...

For anyone who finds this in the future, it turned out to be a juvenile shedding stage! The previous scales had been stained heavily by using one brand of coco coir over another, and they were coming off in a normal shed growth spurt to reveal unstained scales below. There was no redness or...

Based on the type of scales on its legs at this age and splotchiness of the pattern I think it might actually be a Greek tortoise? The care is the same though as the link above :>

New bigger bath :>

Around 6 months old :)

In his sunning box disclaimer, has a full enclosure with substrate and all c:

Oh this is a long while ago, whole new enclosure setup now. His name is Kepler