Moon Masked Poet
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Although these posts seem rather common (by a quick search) I still feel the need to post and ask what I'm supposed to do with a pyramiding tortoise.
Chile is our seven year old Male Redfoot, and while he seems perfectly fine, he does have some pyramiding that makes me worry. I've read about the various conditions that cause pyramiding, along the way learning that most of the development patterns are decided in the first few weeks/months of life, but there aren't a lot of people who can help me correct pyramiding after it's started.
His diet consists of:
Baby Arugula
Baby Lettuce (Not Iceberg)
Tomatoes
Oranges
Corn Cobs (After we've eaten corn)
Strawberries
Cuttle Bones
Occasional Dandelion leaves (From un-sprayed lawns)
Watermelon
Cantaloupe Rines
Varied Leafy Vegetable Mixed
Kale
(Not all at once though)(And he sometimes eats the houseplants, if they're too close to the ground)
Right now he lives in a plastic pond- the kind you normally put in the ground- that would be about 4ft X 8ft if it were rectangular (it's amoeba shaped). He has two heat lamps, one red and one black (for day and night) as well as a regular light. The two ends of his cage are dark and covered so he can hide. We have a dirt/mulch mixture as a bedding, which currently houses a family of spring tails, and two slugs. We're trying to keep it as humid as possible. We've also tried to grow some plants in there so that he could walk through them like it was a rain forest, but he kept trampling and eating them.
He shares his enclosure with a Russian roommate, but the Nikolai spend most of his time in a hole underneath the lights.
During the day, when we're home, we let Chile run around the house, and he enjoys taking laps around our inside walls. He loves going into the Sun-room, when it's nice of course, and really loves being outside under supervision. Our dog is an expert at finding Chile when he disappears into the flowerbeds.
He doesn't seem to be affected by the pyramiding- he's very active, has a good appetite, drinks plenty of water, and is extremely friendly.
I have three pictures of Chile here- Not sure if any of them are helpful. Any advice is welcome
As I'm not sure those photos worked, the pic are also here: http://www.tortoiseforum.org/media/albums/chile.374/
Chile is our seven year old Male Redfoot, and while he seems perfectly fine, he does have some pyramiding that makes me worry. I've read about the various conditions that cause pyramiding, along the way learning that most of the development patterns are decided in the first few weeks/months of life, but there aren't a lot of people who can help me correct pyramiding after it's started.
His diet consists of:
Baby Arugula
Baby Lettuce (Not Iceberg)
Tomatoes
Oranges
Corn Cobs (After we've eaten corn)
Strawberries
Cuttle Bones
Occasional Dandelion leaves (From un-sprayed lawns)
Watermelon
Cantaloupe Rines
Varied Leafy Vegetable Mixed
Kale
(Not all at once though)(And he sometimes eats the houseplants, if they're too close to the ground)
Right now he lives in a plastic pond- the kind you normally put in the ground- that would be about 4ft X 8ft if it were rectangular (it's amoeba shaped). He has two heat lamps, one red and one black (for day and night) as well as a regular light. The two ends of his cage are dark and covered so he can hide. We have a dirt/mulch mixture as a bedding, which currently houses a family of spring tails, and two slugs. We're trying to keep it as humid as possible. We've also tried to grow some plants in there so that he could walk through them like it was a rain forest, but he kept trampling and eating them.
He shares his enclosure with a Russian roommate, but the Nikolai spend most of his time in a hole underneath the lights.
During the day, when we're home, we let Chile run around the house, and he enjoys taking laps around our inside walls. He loves going into the Sun-room, when it's nice of course, and really loves being outside under supervision. Our dog is an expert at finding Chile when he disappears into the flowerbeds.
He doesn't seem to be affected by the pyramiding- he's very active, has a good appetite, drinks plenty of water, and is extremely friendly.
I have three pictures of Chile here- Not sure if any of them are helpful. Any advice is welcome
As I'm not sure those photos worked, the pic are also here: http://www.tortoiseforum.org/media/albums/chile.374/