Recent content by MichaelL

Yeah I think it is fine and normal. As he gets older he'll start to be more brave, hiding less and venturing out more. Just provide a lot of plants or fake plants so he feels comfortable.

Do you have pictures of the tank? Babies like to hide a lot so I'd think it is normal. Is he eating normally?

Sorry, for some reason attaching photos is really weird. Not sure if that worked either

Sorry the pictures were not working in what I previously posted, hopefully this should work. Shell rot: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=c55c11bb5d&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-f:1787835503640323072&th=18cfaaeb0f502400&view=att&disp=safe Abrasion damage...

Hi, good question as sometimes it can look similar. One way I kind of tell is that with abrasion damage you can kind of see the flakiness of the scutes and you could almost peel some off. It does not generally look fungal, is completely dry and it is not spreading. Shell rot begins on the...

Hi, good luck with your new tortoise! Russians are the best. Your tortoise just has some permanent physical damage/wear to its shell but it is purely cosmetic. Something must have happened to him where the keratin was scraped off, and this has happened to tortoises that for example were chewed...