Wendy Proulx
Active Member
I think I have taken on more than I know how to handle with this little baby. My yellow foot male tortoise should be about 6 months old now. I have him in cypress mulch and soil mixture with UVB and heat lamps and a CHE. His tank is around 85 degrees and with the help of a humidifier I keep him enclosure between 70-75% humidity. He gets daily soaks. He has places to hide in a log and moss and many weeds that grow in his enclosure to eat at will. I feed him a mixture of red lettuce, turnip greens, dandelions and clovers. I add cucumbers, squash, mushrooms, eggs, mango, papaya in a rotation. He does not like the calcium powder and will occasionally mix some marazi diet in as well. I thought I finally knew what I was doing, but this morning I noticed that his Plastron is concave on one side!!!! It was always a little from the day I got him, but it is really obvious now. It doesn’t feel soft or have any evidence of shell rot. He seems to be mostly himself thou, but I’m really concerned that I am doing something really wrong. Please help!