New Growth Demonstration

[Bambam1989]

Here is an example of new growth. My tortoise is Sulcata and the new growth comes in very dark, almost black. Other types of tortoises such as Russians usually have very pale growth lines.

This is my tortoise shortly after I got him. You can Just see the new lines forming between the scutes. The red arrows are to help you see them.

Now these lines will thicken. Here is another photo taken after a few days. I have outlined one of the scutes in red, you will see why.

Once the new growth has come in fully it will then develop future new growth from the center of this one.
the red line is the growth you seen developing in the previous photos, even newer growth is demonstrated be the black line.


So I hope my demonstration will help others to spot new growth on their torts! A special thanks to "Paint"
Can you see new growth?

 

[Speedy-1]

This is what new growth looks like on the Plastron (also a Sully) . The growth lines show up as red , it is interesting because you can see if they are growing longer or wider by the red lines !

 

[Bambam1989]

This is what new growth looks like on the Plastron (also a Sully) . The growth lines show up as red , it is interesting because you can see if they are growing longer or wider by the red lines !

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Thank you for that! I didn't think to show the plastron. Silly me.

 

[Big Charlie]

I haven't seen Charlie's plastron in years!

 

[Speedy-1]

I haven't seen Charlie's plastron in years!

Maybe this will help ?

 

[Michael Malone]

I haven't seen Charlie's plastron in years!

He might of gotten a tattoo and you would even know lol

 

[Big Charlie]

He might of gotten a tattoo and you would even know lol

I wouldn't put it past him. You know teenagers these days!

 

[Via Infinito]

Very helpful thread! I haven't seen any time lapse videos of them growing anywhere so I'm not sure how to look for growth! Thanks!