Dogg
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i am new to this site, so howdy ya all. My reason for even finding this site was a concern of my sons spurred tortoise shell appears to be splitting. I searched and found an old topic from 2015. Her tortoise had the same problem but she indicated her tortoise wouldn’t eat a lot of stuff just romaine lettuce so the solution was the tortoises diet. Well I question that theory with my sons tortoise (Rocky). He eats everything grandma puts out for him, cabbage, romaine, coliflower, watermelon rines, cantaloupe rines, brocoly, but his absolute favorite is corn. So she feeds him one maybe two a day along with greens and let’s him run through the water while she waters her plants pretty much every day. Yes, Rocky is spoiled and he loves being around us when we are in the yard. I keep telling grandma she is feeding him too much but she doesn’t listen cause he eats everything which is a head of lettuce plus 1/2 cabbage and up to 2 corn cobs a day. He is about 80lbs. Any thoughts on how he is cared for? We absolutely love this guy even when he gets mad and rearranges everything on the patio so it would suck if are causing his shell to split. Thanks for reading this