darcyyarci
New Member
hi, so i would like some assistance on what to feed my two sulcata tortoises to help w pyramiding. back to my tortoises, they are around 3/4 years old. during the summer they mostly ate grass and vitamins sometimes. you see these tortoises arent exactly mine, they're my sisters but my parents take care of them. the problem is that they don't do any research and therefore my tortoises grew up on solely grocery store produce and there was nothing i could do since i was and still am quite young. i know now that they are not the most healthy shell wise and need help. now they have quite bad pyramiding and recently for the past few months I've been trying to fix that with soaks, vitamins, none of that produce garbage, etc. but it's hard when my parents think they're "perfectly healthy" and they wont allow me to buy more things for them like calcium supplements and things. they do have a very nice area to walk in however with plenty of space and lots of grass. now that it is getting to be cold, my dad ordered the night heat lamp by exoterra and installed it in their outdoor open dog house where they sleep and leaves it on all night. is this okay? also, they have not been eating much which i expect since it is winter but they refuse to eat the orchard grass hay i give them so my dad feeds them the grocery store garbage instead. my tortoises seem well overall but shell wise not so much. what can i do to reduce the pyramiding? please dont be harsh, i am doing all i can to help them and their diet.. thank you!!