Thanks. :) My Russians are pretty smooth too. No pyramiding whatsoever. I try to keep the humidity at the right levels and I use an occasional calcium supplement, but very little protein.
She has her own enclosure. I let her free roam some for exercise and occasionally when I feed her. I'm not sure I could stand having to keep the humidity in my entire apartment at the 80% or so mark. :)
And thanks for the tip. She does appear to be a Yellowfoot and not a Redfoot. :)
http://www.sunshineserpents.com/Turtles%20and%20Tortoises/Yellowfoot%20Tortoise.htm
Here's a couple more recent pictures. They just don't show the area of the shell I was concerned with.
Rebekah and her "sister" Kai (my female feline rescue with polydactyl toes).
crimson_lotus. I was told she was a Redfoot, but I've been questioning whether she's a Yellowfoot myself. I've seen pictures of female Redfoots that don't have a lot of prevalent color, but I wasn't aware there was a scute difference between the two. I'll have to look that up and see if I can...
Thanks. I'm at work so I don't have a picture of her enclosure to post. Basically it's a large plastic Christmas tree tub (50 gallon) that have I have a plastic cover over 3/4 of it to keep the humidity up. The other 1/4 is screened in and setup as a basking area with a heat emitter and a UVB...
I recently (about a month ago) took in a female Redfoot tortoise. My prior keeping experience has been with Russians. The Redfoot has a couple of dry spots on her shell. She came to me this way... The spots do not seem to be getting worse...but they don't seem to be getting better either...
The two Russians I adopted originally came from a local Petsmart. I found them through a Help! ad on craigslist... Both are doing well. That being said...I probably wouldn't buy a tortoise from Petsmart either. The bad part of being located in the midwest though...we have VERY few true local...
I'm always mixed on stuff like this. I grew up in rural Iowa and anywhere you have large numbers of animals you have loss. Whether it's a farm environment or a breeding facility.
There are definite cases of cruelty in that video...stepping on the hamster, neglect, and a lack of veterinary...
I sure will. They've been in together for about 5 months I guess. I've only had them a couple of weeks now. They share a hide all the time even though there are 2 hides available.
Just dropping by to say "hello". I grew up in rural Iowa and have been a caretaker for everything from mice to pygmy goats, but this is my first attempt at keeping cold-blooded critters.
I recently adopted 2 male Russian tortoises (Charlie and Harper) that were in a house with an aggressive...