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Thanks! It is just the raised areas, there are no other deformities, no dips, no soft shell or anything like that and he's of average weight on the Jackson scale. I think it could be due to him not getting outside enough at first and for the first year I think he was fed purely on mixed lettuce...

Thanks for your replies! It's a shame that for their first year they were at my work and I was not responsible for their care. But since then they had been in an indoor enclosure which was about 8ft by 2ft with supervised access to the garden when the weather was nice. The one I kept now...

I'm from the uk on the south coast!

Hi everyone, I'm quite new to this forum! I own one tortoise now after rehoming my other male due to fighting. My remaining tortoise has some deformity but the other one didn't, they were raised together since hatching back in 2009, same enclosure, same lighting, same food. Has anyone got any...

Yeah, but I didn't agree 100% with how they were kept, hermans and spur thighs were together in one enclosure and it is not certain who the parents to my two were! One has a deformed shell but the other doesn't and they have been kept in the same enclosure and so had the same lighting and...

Thanks everyone!

I used to teach practical animal care at a college

Hello fellow tortoise keepers! I'm new to the forum so here I am introducing myself and my tortoise! I'm from the south of England and until recently I had two mediterranean spur-thigh tortoises but now I only have one as they were fighting :-( The one I have is nearly 4 years old and I've...