growth

Hi Everyone, Recently, a friend of mine gave me this radiated tortoise. It is a male and the size is 29cm. I know that males can grow up to 40cm. So is there any possibility that the pyramiding will get better (smooth out) overtime?

Hi everyone! I have a rescued red footed tortoise, Happiness. I just discovered a growth in what I believe is her nictitating membrane. I hadn't been able to see her in a number of days and her other caretaker human tends to miss things, so I'm not sure when or how it appeared. Initially I...

We've had one redfoot for almost a year and our 2nd redfoot and a yellowfoot since December, but I have just recently fallen in love with them. The are incredibly interesting to watch and I am very curious about some if their behaviors. For example, do they know their owner's voice? When I...

I just got my 2 redfoot tortoises (Grey and Scout) yesterday and I'm going to use this thread to post photos and growth updates so that I can look back and see how much they have grown in the future. They are 11 months old at the time I am writing this. Here they are on the day I got them. Grey...

Hello Everybody! I got my hatchling sulcata, Geode, on September 22, 2018 and today is January 21, 2018. When I got him, he weighed 50.5g and today, four months later, he only weights 59.9g. I was under the impression that slow growth was good for these babies, but after doing so more...

I'm new to this.. i have a lot of questions about our torts health. My family has 3 sulcata torts, around 2 years old. As they've gotten older, one of them has just stopped getting bigger. Myrtle and Rafael are huge, while Tucker is half their size. I recently found out that torts need lots of...

Here are some pictures from about 2 months back, I can't find my first ones. Here are the new ones: I'm just curious as to if he's growing properly. His shell doesn't feel like it's pyramiding. Is it supposed to flatten out a bit around the back of it? That's the only thing that's...