nails

Hello everyone I have a 4 maybe 5 year old Russian tortious and I have never clipped her nails. Do you guys think she is ready for a trim?

Hi, I was playing with my tortoise and I noticed her nail gone. I have no idea how it happened and what to do. Please help.

Hi All, This is Puck, my Russian Tortoise. I'm a little concerned that his/her claws are getting a bit long. I've also noticed recently that there is quite a lot of 'smooth' skin on his/her rear legs - this may be completely normal and I've just noticed it and it looks a little odd. Any...

Hello, my tortoise lives in an outside enclosure. Sometime within the past 24 hours, he got stuck while climbing. When I went to feed him this evening, he had been trying to get unstuck for at least long enough to either rip his claws out/file them down flat. Most of his claws are no longer...

Hi, i got this sulcata for cheap from an auction, then i realized that it's plastron is bloating (at first, but it's not bloating right now), and it can't retract the hind legs fully inside the shell... It's eating well and moving around just fine... So is it just fat? Or it's sick? Oh, i...

Hey everyone. Recently, after realizing that tortoises likely needed their nails clipped too, I began to look into doing so. I came across one thread that mentioned that Russian Tortoise nails were naturally long, but I was wondering if there was a metric of some sort to tell if they are too...

Good day, My name is Arnanca and i have a baby leopard tortoise Izzy. We are from South Africa but i just really need some advice. On her left foot she lost 1 nail and now she is busy loosing another.But only on her left foot. Is this normal will they grow back? There is nothing hard in her...