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Sorry, for some reason attaching photos is really weird. Not sure if that worked either

Sorry the pictures were not working in what I previously posted, hopefully this should work. Shell rot: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=c55c11bb5d&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-f:1787835503640323072&th=18cfaaeb0f502400&view=att&disp=safe Abrasion damage...

Hi, good question as sometimes it can look similar. One way I kind of tell is that with abrasion damage you can kind of see the flakiness of the scutes and you could almost peel some off. It does not generally look fungal, is completely dry and it is not spreading. Shell rot begins on the...

Hi, good luck with your new tortoise! Russians are the best. Your tortoise just has some permanent physical damage/wear to its shell but it is purely cosmetic. Something must have happened to him where the keratin was scraped off, and this has happened to tortoises that for example were chewed...

Definitely NOT an iguana, either an alligator or crocodile for sure. You can even see the size in that viedo, wayyy bigger than an iguana and all the features don't match with any iguanas.

Out of brumation!

All across Florida there are actually TONS of edible weeds and plants for tortoises, you just have to learn to see them, and find and identify them. If you ever need help identifying, feel free to send me a pic. I feel like it would be pretty hard to grow dandelions but online there are weed...

The main thing I notice is the part on the shell where you can see the transition from wild growth to captive growth- from even, rigid growth to a sudden period of bright, yellow, and very smooth new growth. If it were a captive bred you would generally not see such a change in the growth...