CL84
New Member
Hi,
I acquired this leopard tortoise that had pyramiding prior to me picking it up. In april it was 219 grams. It's more than doubled in size since mid april and is now 490 grams. I am doing everything I can to minimize pyramiding moving forward. It has a varied diet, mainly escarole, endive, and dandilion as a base + mazuri 5m21. It is now living outdoors full time and its enclosure gets a good spray down in the mornings. It also has a very humid hide where it spends a lot of time. Also frequent soaks. + calcium twice per week.
I'm attaching photos of its growth. the new rings of growth are budging past the old rings and they are growing much larger than previously. This isn't happening on any of my other tortoises. Any thoughts? Growing too fast?![IMG_1319.JPG IMG_1319.JPG](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/359/359732-96beee49f57f0352474679a942803d60.jpg)
![IMG_4142.JPG IMG_4142.JPG](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/359/359733-9bef3c100f60717ab0d23f05c3d2e1f5.jpg)
![IMG_1317.JPG IMG_1317.JPG](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/359/359734-384aba4ef6f2269c7f277b9428483146.jpg)
![IMG_4141.JPG IMG_4141.JPG](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/359/359735-ad6cec5f2b20027da86b86c5e4e3d2d1.jpg)
I acquired this leopard tortoise that had pyramiding prior to me picking it up. In april it was 219 grams. It's more than doubled in size since mid april and is now 490 grams. I am doing everything I can to minimize pyramiding moving forward. It has a varied diet, mainly escarole, endive, and dandilion as a base + mazuri 5m21. It is now living outdoors full time and its enclosure gets a good spray down in the mornings. It also has a very humid hide where it spends a lot of time. Also frequent soaks. + calcium twice per week.
I'm attaching photos of its growth. the new rings of growth are budging past the old rings and they are growing much larger than previously. This isn't happening on any of my other tortoises. Any thoughts? Growing too fast?
![IMG_1319.JPG IMG_1319.JPG](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/359/359732-96beee49f57f0352474679a942803d60.jpg)
![IMG_4142.JPG IMG_4142.JPG](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/359/359733-9bef3c100f60717ab0d23f05c3d2e1f5.jpg)
![IMG_1317.JPG IMG_1317.JPG](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/359/359734-384aba4ef6f2269c7f277b9428483146.jpg)
![IMG_4141.JPG IMG_4141.JPG](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/359/359735-ad6cec5f2b20027da86b86c5e4e3d2d1.jpg)