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Recently adopted a badly deformed Sulcata who seems otherwise healthy, eats, drinks and moves around fine. S/he was hatched out deformed among a clutch of healthy tortoises. Trying to give the benefit of the doubt in all situations here and without faulting anyone it appears this tortoise was offered for sale, purchased by someone who didn't realize the scope of its deformity, and was later deemed undesirable. Despite this chain of events the now tiny yearling has received exceptional care its entire first year ( UV bulbs, outside time, natural diet supplemented with mazuri, humid warm environment) from people with good intentions and has shown no improvements in its physical appearance. Anyways I am very curious if anyone on the forum has an older juv or adult tortoise who has or had a severe shell deformity and how it progressed with age. Advice welcome, no idea what the distant future holds for this little one but the immediate future holds a field of grass, a lot of love and some sweet southern sunshine : )