I chose the title of this care sheet very carefully. Are there other ways to raise babies and care for adults? Yes. Yes there are, but those ways are not as good. What follows is the BEST way, according to 30 years of research and experimentation with hundreds of babies of many species. What is...
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you need to make changes to your substrate and probably your enclosure situation as a whole. Your tort looks to be pyramiding and that is caused (mostly) by lack of humidity. Read the care sheet posted above and make the necessary changes