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  1. Amy9

    Pyramiding advice

    Ohh i didnt have her as a little baby, but when she was quite young. Her shell isnt soft anywhere at all and i give her a calcium dust. I shall have a look around, thank you :)[hr] :) Yeah she has a cuttlefish bone but just kicks that around really instead of eating it lol and i dust her...
  2. Amy9

    Pyramiding advice

    Thats good then! I am glad its not bad, i was worrying because i dont want her being ill because of it! I am going to give her more of a variety of plants and weeds so hopefully that will help and i hope everything else i am doing is fine :) Im much happier now, thank you!
  3. Amy9

    New Hermanns Home At Last

    They are so small and cute :) Very pretty!
  4. Amy9

    Please help worried about my tortoise!

    Thank you! I have only joined today and have learnt alot more already :) I think i havent been soaking her enough so im going to do that more often and i am going to start growing some plants and weeds! Yeah, she is still growing so if i correct everything hopefully it wont get much worse...
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    Please help worried about my tortoise!

    Yeah about twice a week, I get a pot and fill it with warm water up to her chin. I give her about 20 minutes soaking in it, sometimes she sits there and wipes her face, drinks some and then goes to the loo in it and other times she straight away struggles to get out. Do you think i need to bath...
  6. Amy9

    Pyramiding advice

    I have only recently heard about pyramiding in tortoises and i have some questions about it! If anyone can help me that will be great! How is pyramiding caused? How can it be prevented? If a tortoise already has signs of pyramiding will they have it forever? How can you tell whether...
  7. Amy9

    Please help worried about my tortoise!

    Thanks everyone for helping! Im alot happier about diet information, just still concerned about the pyramiding! [hr] Thanks :) I will read through that now to see if it helps!
  8. Amy9

    Please help worried about my tortoise!

    ohhh ok :) Another thing i was wondering is can i over feed her? [hr] I used to have an exo terra one and someone told me they were useless so i got the one i have now lol! Her viv is around 84 degrees farhenhait however you spell it and is cooler at the other end, she has her moments where...
  9. Amy9

    Please help worried about my tortoise!

    She is 7 inches from where her shell starts near her head to the base of her shell near the tail and nearly 5 inches underneath from where the shell underneath starts and finishes[hr] Thank you thank you! I have nasturtium in a pot in my garden, i didnt realise they can eat that :) I will...
  10. Amy9

    Please help worried about my tortoise!

    The basking and heat lamp is a infrared heat spotlamp and it is 50w and the uv lamp is a tube it says it is uva and uvb and is 15w and tropical pro 6.0 if that makes sense! Thank you for your help
  11. Amy9

    Please help worried about my tortoise!

    Thank you :) Yeah i am definetly going to cut down on kale because she does eat quite abit of that and watercress and lettuce! Where do you get your food from for yours do you grow them yourself? Or can you buy them? I shall have a look at the tortoise table now :) Oh and i forgot to add i bath...
  12. Amy9

    Please help worried about my tortoise!

    Please help me! I am 18 years old and I am from the UK, I have had my hermanns tortoise Narla for a year now and up till now i thought she was happy and healthy! I recently posted a video of Narla on YouTube and had some good comments until someone posted that she looked very unwell... He said...
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