How are those nails?

pelchat22

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Hello expert!

Its the only Tortoise I have and see.
She is around 6 years old?
I dont know how nails length should look like...to trim or not.
She have good tropical substrate and some rocks to walk on.
The beak look good to me.
How would you rate those nails? Good / okay / keep watching / too long

Thanks :D
 

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zovick

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Hello expert!

Its the only Tortoise I have and see.
She is around 6 years old?
I dont know how nails length should look like...to trim or not.
She have good tropical substrate and some rocks to walk on.
The beak look good to me.
How would you rate those nails? Good / okay / keep watching / too long

Thanks :D
Beak and nails look fine. There is no need to do any trimming on either of them.
 

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Curious. Do you keep your tortoise outdoors?
I place flat, cement pads throughout my outdoor pens. Just the tortoises walking across them keeps their nails trimmed. So much so that I've never had to trim a single nail. Ever.
You can duplicate this indoors with a few thin slate sections, layed flat.
Feeding on slate or terrace cotta does the same for beak maintenance.
That being said, I agree that the nails in the photos looked perfectly normal. So does the mouth/beak
 

pelchat22

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Curious. Do you keep your tortoise outdoors?
I place flat, cement pads throughout my outdoor pens. Just the tortoises walking across them keeps their nails trimmed. So much so that I've never had to trim a single nail. Ever.
You can duplicate this indoors with a few thin slate sections, layed flat.
Feeding on slate or terrace cotta does the same for beak maintenance.
That being said, I agree that the nails in the photos looked perfectly normal. So does the mouth/beak
Thanks everyone!

No 100% indoor. I have some flat rock around that she walk on everyday. But its a good idea for feeding plate too.
 

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