Updated Pics (pyramiding or normal?)

[yarok]

Here are some updated pics of my Sulcata. Is there some pyramiding or does his shell look normal?

 

[Tom]

Mild pyramiding has started. See how the scutes are raised with ridges in between? This might be due to the care before you got him. The wet routine should cure it at this point. Humidity, damp substrate, warm temps, shell spraying, daily soaks, a humid hide, sunshine, calcium, exercise...

Its all in the care sheet at the top of the sulcata page.

 

[yarok]

ok Thanks

 

[ascott]

What type of substrate are you using there?

 

[HtVic]

you still using this kind of substrate

 

[Laura]

Does he eat all that food? Its a bigger pile then him!
The substrate could be changed to help with moisture...and I would want him
accidently eating the splinters.

 

[yarok]

The substrate is Cypress mulch. I ordered some eco earth which should be arriving any day now. I would like to use regular soil or some kind of substrate that he can burrow in and that I can grow some plants in indoors. But so far i havent come up with any ideas.

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would miracle grow potting soil be safe to use?

 

[Zamric]

miracle grow potting soil is not good for a substrate! Organic compost\topsoil is what I use!

 

[MORTYtheTORTY]

Mild pyramiding has started. See how the scutes are raised with ridges in between? This might be due to the care before you got him. The wet routine should cure it at this point. Humidity, damp substrate, warm temps, shell spraying, daily soaks, a humid hide, sunshine, calcium, exercise...

Its all in the care sheet at the top of the sulcata page.

correct me if I'm wrong Tom, but do they have slight pyramiding as they grow? I forget where I read that info but I read somewhere that when they mildly pyramid it will go away as they grow into their shell or it's just them growing or should they not pyramid at all?