So I stumbled upon a tortoise youtuber who has switched from an open air enclosure for her tortoises to one with an enclosed canopy top (like the triangle shaped greenhouses some of you use). In one of her old videos she stated that hatchlings should be set up in an open air tub and I asked if she still recommends that. She replied yes, but recently is trying an enclosed top to keep up the humidity for a project to test out the new method. But she also stated that she does not follow the 80/80 rule, that she read about the risks of keeping tortoises in high humidity enclosures but is also open to the fact that people should do their own research and come up with their own conclusions on how to raise their hatchlings.
So this lead me to look for sources that follow other recommendations and see what their results have been and found the Ojai Sulcata Project, which pretty much states the opposite of everything that closed chambers are about. I searched the entire site and couldn't find too many pics of their tortoises that they raised from hatchlings. I DID find a pic of hatchlings that already looked like they were starting to pyramid too. Just placing this topic here in case anyone else has found sources that recommend anything other than closed chambers and what their tortoises looked like.
I've been commenting on random tortoise videos about how I raise Hoppy in a closed chamber and have gotten a few comments saying that it's wrong. I even got one that claimed they raised 2 tortoises in a tortoise table since hatchlings and neither have pyramiding, which I find hard to believe. But I also don't have photographic evidence. I'm still choosing the 80/80 closed chamber method because of the hard documentation you guys have all provided with successfully stopping pyramiding.
Here's the link to the Ojai Sulcata Project, it's not much but have at it:
http://ojaisulcataproject.org/index.html
So this lead me to look for sources that follow other recommendations and see what their results have been and found the Ojai Sulcata Project, which pretty much states the opposite of everything that closed chambers are about. I searched the entire site and couldn't find too many pics of their tortoises that they raised from hatchlings. I DID find a pic of hatchlings that already looked like they were starting to pyramid too. Just placing this topic here in case anyone else has found sources that recommend anything other than closed chambers and what their tortoises looked like.
I've been commenting on random tortoise videos about how I raise Hoppy in a closed chamber and have gotten a few comments saying that it's wrong. I even got one that claimed they raised 2 tortoises in a tortoise table since hatchlings and neither have pyramiding, which I find hard to believe. But I also don't have photographic evidence. I'm still choosing the 80/80 closed chamber method because of the hard documentation you guys have all provided with successfully stopping pyramiding.
Here's the link to the Ojai Sulcata Project, it's not much but have at it:
http://ojaisulcataproject.org/index.html