Hello! First of all thank you so much for all of the info on this forum. I found Kylie about a month ago crawling across the street in front of my house. I live in a residential area but we do have some desert patches in the neighborhood. I checked with AZ game and fish and they said she is a sulcata.
Today when I took her outside, I noticed a "groove" or almost like a fingernail mark in her shell. There are 3 of them but they're in the light colored part of her shell, not the dark outlines like others had asked about. Any ideas what they are? I am posting some pictures. The deepest one is on her left shoulder and she has 2 smaller ones on her right side. I tried to point out 1 on the right with a pen. She also has a raised line going down the middle of her shell that's new but I assumed that is from growing.
The first 10 days that we had her, I made just about every mistake possible in caring for her. Since finding this forum, she is eating the correct diet, has a humid hide, has the proper temps in her enclosures, and gets outside a lot since we live in Tucson and weather allows it. The only thing we struggle with is the humidity. Her substrate is dirt / soil that I keep wet. Humidity is usually 50-70% during the day and we get to 80% at night most nights.
Thank you!
Today when I took her outside, I noticed a "groove" or almost like a fingernail mark in her shell. There are 3 of them but they're in the light colored part of her shell, not the dark outlines like others had asked about. Any ideas what they are? I am posting some pictures. The deepest one is on her left shoulder and she has 2 smaller ones on her right side. I tried to point out 1 on the right with a pen. She also has a raised line going down the middle of her shell that's new but I assumed that is from growing.
The first 10 days that we had her, I made just about every mistake possible in caring for her. Since finding this forum, she is eating the correct diet, has a humid hide, has the proper temps in her enclosures, and gets outside a lot since we live in Tucson and weather allows it. The only thing we struggle with is the humidity. Her substrate is dirt / soil that I keep wet. Humidity is usually 50-70% during the day and we get to 80% at night most nights.
Thank you!