Frank&Gerard
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Hello, I have had a few issues with my tortoise and I am unsure how best to go forward.
(he is about 3 and a half years old and is a Hermans tortoise. At the start of 2018 he was 37g but now we are at 706g. Gender is still unknown.)
I got him a few years ago not long after he had been hatched as well as one of his siblings. He came with an infection on his plastron which after a while I had to go to the vet for as at home methods weren't helping him, the vet said otherwise his shell was strong and that Gerard was fully healthy. Things went fine after the infection left, but I quickly realised how much larger he was begging to get compared to his sibling, and overall his behaviour is very odd. Currently I am concerned with how quick he is growing and that it could be causing issues to his shell, so far we have a few slightly pyramiding places but its not all over with some being completely flat and only a few odd ones giving signs. He has never been fed pellets and I have always been very careful, but I don't know how to slow his broth down as with less for he seems distressed and when out will bite anything he sees and doesn't calm down until fed more?
He seems to get lonely without human contact and will choose me over food regularly, but also his issues with wanting loads of food concerns me.
Once satisfied with food he come out and walks around the house and will cuddle up to us, but if not he tares up the carpet and hs hung off my hand with biting a few times.
I am just concerned that I am doing something wrong as his sibling is nothing like that and is only at 82g.
(I can take photos but they are currently sleeping so don't want to disturb them yet)
(he is about 3 and a half years old and is a Hermans tortoise. At the start of 2018 he was 37g but now we are at 706g. Gender is still unknown.)
I got him a few years ago not long after he had been hatched as well as one of his siblings. He came with an infection on his plastron which after a while I had to go to the vet for as at home methods weren't helping him, the vet said otherwise his shell was strong and that Gerard was fully healthy. Things went fine after the infection left, but I quickly realised how much larger he was begging to get compared to his sibling, and overall his behaviour is very odd. Currently I am concerned with how quick he is growing and that it could be causing issues to his shell, so far we have a few slightly pyramiding places but its not all over with some being completely flat and only a few odd ones giving signs. He has never been fed pellets and I have always been very careful, but I don't know how to slow his broth down as with less for he seems distressed and when out will bite anything he sees and doesn't calm down until fed more?
He seems to get lonely without human contact and will choose me over food regularly, but also his issues with wanting loads of food concerns me.
Once satisfied with food he come out and walks around the house and will cuddle up to us, but if not he tares up the carpet and hs hung off my hand with biting a few times.
I am just concerned that I am doing something wrong as his sibling is nothing like that and is only at 82g.
(I can take photos but they are currently sleeping so don't want to disturb them yet)