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one year later: 1371 grams (I know, slow grower) I can't believe how stubborn some of these scutes are in smoothing out! But we're getting there.

care to take a guess? https://www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/20190509_191433-jpg.271812/

Attached some new photo's. Planning to keep updating this thread the coming years, so we will see in the end, but if you want to take a guess you can see the belly to wager on the gender.

I'd say (s)he looks great!

It's difficult to see whether there is continued pyramiding from this angle, the dark growth rings wouldn't worry me too much, for general care there is an excellent sticky at the top of the Sulcata page here on the forum, I would suggest perusing that for more info.

long overdue update. Binky is now over 1 kg (around 2 pounds), at almost 4 years. That's very slow compared to other sulcata's I've seen here, but maybe that's because (s)he gets a fibrous low protein food. Pyramiding is completely gone in the side scutes, but the top ones are stubborn still...

Souds logical, it seems to slowly get better, I'll post pictures soon.

Still going strong and growing strong. Out in the yard stomping around. Top shutes remain an issue.

No worries, I find this very interesting, squat the thread all you want :)

So funny thing, a much belated update on Binky: he's now 440 grams, and doing very well. The top 3 shutes are hte most stubborn when it comes to smoothing out. I was travelling around Southern Africa in Januari and we found a baby Leopard crossing the road, and I think you can see some...

Looks like his nictitating membrane, how long has this been going on?

Here's the x-ray. Seems he swallowed a pebble as well, we'll see if that passes. I'll make another one in a year and then we can see how it develops.

I´m a vet and I´d say: not without a reason. It's difficult to do a better assessment of a tortoise's healthy in the clinic (with lower temp, different surroundings and a stressed animal) than what you as an owner who knows your animal can see every day. A side from this there also the whole...

Let me see if I can bring him by the clinic next week and make an xray, I'd be curious to see that as well. I'd even figure that if the bone is less pyramided these actual humps will fade a very small amount. However, normally the tissue is only about a mm thick so the bone should follow the...

http://metro.co.uk/2015/12/08/australias-new-dinosaur-could-be-even-better-than-stegosaurus-5552512 :)

The weight is nearing 300 grams now and the shell is smoothed out completely between the humps can't believe how effective this has been...however let's face it, his shell looks ridiculous because it's exactly the lighter areas which are raised :)

I'm just following the advice from the forums here, Tom the dogtrainer made some excellent stickies on this, which can be found at the top of the sulcata section. For me and Binky it means the following: a humid hide box in which he sleeps which is at 99% rel humidity (rest of the enclosure...

The top two humps seem most stubborn to smooth out, growing pace picked up again. I'll make detailed photos next time, but then you can see the inbetween scutes growth, smoothing out over time. It's kinda like watching paint dry for me, but scrolling back through the pictures you can see the...

I think for the general keeper as a rule of thumb the following suffices: the longer the grass had been grown of has been allowed to grow over more time the more fibrous it will be and therefore lower in sugar (it will also look less vibrantly green). The shorter grown, more succulent looking or...

Mine won't touch it either