Shell growth/feeding advice

[LeanneW]

Hi Everyone!

just wanted some advice.

Pebble is a 3 month old eastern hermanns tortoise.
we have had her for three weeks now.
she has gained 2 grams each week and seems to be doing well.
I just wondered if her shell is looking normal
and the bottom end of her shell looks a little bumpy?
she has food every day and soaks I am being carful not to overfeed.
I have been supplementing with nutrobol.
though i am worried im giving her too much nutrobol.. i am trying to give her the smallest amounts

she has 12 hours of uvb and basking light aswell

 

[Yvonne G]

That's normal. Some of them are even more jagged than yours.

 

[JoesMum]

You have a beautiful looking tortoise there

Don't worry about over feeding. A good guide is to feed a mound of greens roughly the size of her shell. If she eats it all then give her more.

A tiny pinch of calcium powder sprinkled sparsely on food 3 days a week is plenty. No more as you can overdo it. Leave a cuttlebone in the enclosure for her to chomp on as it will give her extra calcium when she needs it and help keep her beak in shape.

Her diet should be a variety of weedy and leafy greens. She cannot digest sugars properly so sweet foods like fruit, bell pepper, carrot and tomato should only be fed very sparingly and very occasionally.

Write a list of the greens that grow around you and those that you can buy from the supermarket and look them up on The Tortoise Table Plant Database for suitability to feed. It's a fabulous online search facility that explains whether or not you can feed something and why
https://www.thetortoisetable.org.uk

Few of us manage in the winter months without supplementing with a pellet food softened in water. I used Komodo.