I've had a male Brazilian now for over 3yrs, in this 3 yrs he hasn't grown more than 0.5" on the SCL. He's now around 8" SCL and mature. This guy is extremely pyramided, I had a female around the same size and in a 3 yr period she has grown around 3", however although she is pyramided, she's no where near as bad as the male.
It got me thinking, Because the male is pyramided and the bone growth has gone down at an angle instead of across will he never be as big as he should be, in actual fact although he only measures 8" SCL if he had grown smooth he may have been around 10" SCL and peaking his maximum size and this is why I'm not seeing him grow with any pace.
I roughly measure one of my torts(and I mean roughly, the lights were just about to go off so I had to be quick). The angle of pyramid was around 40° and the flat of the angle measured approx 0.75".
In these sketches the thicker lines are the areola.
I'm hoping my feeble sketches get across what I'm asking. If he was smooth would the angled line at 0.75" have become the horizontal lines at the same length making him overall a lot bigger.
Thoughts anyone please.
@Markw84
It got me thinking, Because the male is pyramided and the bone growth has gone down at an angle instead of across will he never be as big as he should be, in actual fact although he only measures 8" SCL if he had grown smooth he may have been around 10" SCL and peaking his maximum size and this is why I'm not seeing him grow with any pace.
I roughly measure one of my torts(and I mean roughly, the lights were just about to go off so I had to be quick). The angle of pyramid was around 40° and the flat of the angle measured approx 0.75".
In these sketches the thicker lines are the areola.
I'm hoping my feeble sketches get across what I'm asking. If he was smooth would the angled line at 0.75" have become the horizontal lines at the same length making him overall a lot bigger.
Thoughts anyone please.
@Markw84