TheDukeAnumber1
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My wife and I purchased a baby sulcata about 9 months ago from a local pet shop and named him Bowser. We suspect Bowser was a few months old when we bought him/her. Everything is good except for Bowsers beak seems to be developing a deformation and it really has me worried. In the attached pictures you can see in each corner of his jaw there are gaps that weren't there in the earliest picture we have of him. The gap doesn't seem like it's causing him any issues eating, he is usually very active especially when we bring him outside, and he has a healthy appetite.
I've lurked around here for a while now and figure you'd want to know Bowser's current care. He is housed in a 2'x 4' tortoise table I build with reptile safe bark as a substrate. I use a temp gun to monitor his temp and he has access to areas where he can warm up to 90 or cool to 70 if he wants. I have a UVB bulb on about 12 hrs a day and we get him out into the sun a few days a week. We have 2'x 4' outdoor enclosure for him too but won't let him sleep outside just yet. He gets soaked usually twice but at lease once a day for about 20min. I feed him daily a mash of 45% grassland, 45% mazuri LS, 10% flukers. About once a week he gets a treat of romaine or some strawberry. A few times a week his food is supplemented with calcium w/ D3 and flukers multi-vitamin.
I'm worried for my tort and haven't been able to find this problem anywhere else. He seems healthy otherwise so I wonder if it isn't genetic but I want to be sure I'm not doing this to him.
Thanks,
Kyle
I've lurked around here for a while now and figure you'd want to know Bowser's current care. He is housed in a 2'x 4' tortoise table I build with reptile safe bark as a substrate. I use a temp gun to monitor his temp and he has access to areas where he can warm up to 90 or cool to 70 if he wants. I have a UVB bulb on about 12 hrs a day and we get him out into the sun a few days a week. We have 2'x 4' outdoor enclosure for him too but won't let him sleep outside just yet. He gets soaked usually twice but at lease once a day for about 20min. I feed him daily a mash of 45% grassland, 45% mazuri LS, 10% flukers. About once a week he gets a treat of romaine or some strawberry. A few times a week his food is supplemented with calcium w/ D3 and flukers multi-vitamin.
I'm worried for my tort and haven't been able to find this problem anywhere else. He seems healthy otherwise so I wonder if it isn't genetic but I want to be sure I'm not doing this to him.
Thanks,
Kyle