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Thanks for the replies and reassurance. I'm actually wondering about pyramiding - does the bone underneath follow the contour of the scute ie is it also humped, or does the bone sit flat and the pyramid is made up only of piled up layers of scute? Perhaps only an x-ray will answer this. Anyway...

Hi everybody, Last year we acquired a 7 year old Greek tortoise after he and his brother had been fighting in his previous home. He had a tough youth as he was one of only a few (presumably wild) tortoise babies that survived being smuggled in a golf bag to uk, at which point he was seized by...

Thanks Mark. He's on a soil/sand substrate in a tortoise table, humidity is between 55 and 65. He soaks every day 30 mins. As far as I know this is all OK for a mediterranean tortoise, but before we got him, he lived in a really super-humid room. While he arrived with the scute damage, the...

Thanks Yvonne. Is there anything I can do to stop grass etc catching on it when he's outside?

Hi, My first time here. We had have our 7 year old greek for 6 months. He's had an eventful past life and arrived with some pyramiding and some damage to 2 of his scutes, which we were advised looks like an old injury because there is no redness and it seems dry. If we are looking at him...