Hello tortoise forum! This is my 17ish year old red foot tortoise buddy. I come to you all. today because of the odd way his shell is formed. I know he has pyramiding but I’m mainly concerned about the separation.
A little background info is that he is my family pet. My parents bought him at a sketchy reptile show and he had some sort of birth defect that caused a lot of eating issues when he was younger. He now has a wildly deformed shell like nothing I’ve seen before. Most of the information we got on raising him either came from the vet or from my grandparents who once owned a pet shop and a very happy and healthy red foot as well. I will admit his indoor enclosure is lacking in space but he spends the majority of time outside(we live in the American southeast). For the majority of his life we’ve fed him vet approved dry food and we’ve recently tried an all fresh food diet as well. I’m just wondering if anyone knows what his deformation is called and what caused it
A little background info is that he is my family pet. My parents bought him at a sketchy reptile show and he had some sort of birth defect that caused a lot of eating issues when he was younger. He now has a wildly deformed shell like nothing I’ve seen before. Most of the information we got on raising him either came from the vet or from my grandparents who once owned a pet shop and a very happy and healthy red foot as well. I will admit his indoor enclosure is lacking in space but he spends the majority of time outside(we live in the American southeast). For the majority of his life we’ve fed him vet approved dry food and we’ve recently tried an all fresh food diet as well. I’m just wondering if anyone knows what his deformation is called and what caused it