I am a little late...
stress can indirectly cause pyramiding. Stress is stress and a tortoise's body can react to stress just like any other form of life.
There was mention of D3 dosing. You can over do it and have D3 poisoning, but in general, a healthy tortoise out in the sun won't need D3 supplementing. Out dated/bad D3 is not good either.
Again I stress balance, and when the scale is not balanced (a sick tortoise), you have to make a judgement call and increase
decrease some things as needed.
stress can indirectly cause pyramiding. Stress is stress and a tortoise's body can react to stress just like any other form of life.
There was mention of D3 dosing. You can over do it and have D3 poisoning, but in general, a healthy tortoise out in the sun won't need D3 supplementing. Out dated/bad D3 is not good either.
Again I stress balance, and when the scale is not balanced (a sick tortoise), you have to make a judgement call and increase
decrease some things as needed.