My Sulcata Plastron Is Soft And I'm Scared

[Gerhald Kuswandi]

First of all my english isn't that good so I hope you understand the problem I'm having here with my Sulcata

So recently I just got a baby sulcata that size 5cm or 2 Inch and I've been keeping him for almost 2 months and he is around 2 or 3 weeks old and when he first arrived here. I often expose him to sunlight every morning while soaking him with warm water for 15 minutes,maintain his cage temperature with UVA spot light and gave him proper food. But the problem is he always rejected every food that I mixed with cuttlebone powder,he also reject to eat tortoise pellet and I'm pretty worried since he doesn't want to consume any calcium. And I just checked that his plastron is pretty soft when I press it gently. I don't know if it's MBD or not since he is still pretty active and have high appetite. I'm sorry I can't attach the video here since this forum doesn't have that feature but I can give you my Instagram if you want to see the video though, Thank you!

 

[Tom]

The plastron is supposed to be soft in babies. It should feel pliable like a plastic lid. It should not feel squishy like a sponge.

Spot bulbs will cause pyramiding.

Here is the current and correct care info:

The Best Way To Raise A Sulcata, Leopard, Or Star Tortoise

I chose the title of this care sheet very carefully. Are there other ways to raise babies? Yes. Yes there are, but those ways are not as good. What follows is the BEST way, according to 30 years of research and experimentation with hundreds of babies of many species. Babies hatch during the...

tortoiseforum.org