Hi! Every year in Texas, schools have a huge project for GT students (gifted and talented, which is basically honors. In my school district, if you're in GT you do work that is two years ahead than the grade you're in. For example, I'm in 7th grade but I'm doing 7th, 8th, and 9th grade work.) called TPSP (Texas performance standards project), or R4D (research 4 discovery). We have November through march to do it. I'm planning on doing a project on the effects of pyramiding for tortoises, and a possible way to stop pyramiding once it's already begun. Some people might think it's impossible, but thats the whole point of this project. I have to do research that will hopefully lead to a great discovery and help others with the problem I'm trying to fix.
Let's say you are a tortoise rescuer, and you have found a sulcata tortoise that had terrible owners that had him in the driest possible set up and were feeding it dog food (I actually found a terrible story like this on youtube, where the owners had drilled holes in the corners of a sulcata's shell and and attached a handle to pick it up ). It has the worst case of pyramiding you have ever seen, and all you want to do is fix it's shell. What do you do?
When I joined this forum, I saw just how little I had learned from from youtube and the internet. If I hadn't found this forum, my tort would be dead! I had been researching for OVER A YEAR, and I didn't know you where supposed to soak tortoises until I saw a post on here! I sincerely thank everyone on this forum, because without you guys, I would never have been able to get my sully I have now. I'm hoping everyone can help me on these five months of research, so I can be ready by March. It's always great to have primary resources!
Im going to start by starting a graph of my tortoises weight and recording it every week. I'm going to post the first records tomorrow, seeing as it's 11 pm and I have school in the morning. Hurray for six hours of sleep :/. It would be great if someone could help me with finding the exact causes of pyramiding, and exactly how and why the body makes pyramiding happen.
Again, I can't thank you guys enough for what you do here. I know I'm just rambling at this point, but I sincerely mean everything I've said about everyone on the forum.
Let's say you are a tortoise rescuer, and you have found a sulcata tortoise that had terrible owners that had him in the driest possible set up and were feeding it dog food (I actually found a terrible story like this on youtube, where the owners had drilled holes in the corners of a sulcata's shell and and attached a handle to pick it up ). It has the worst case of pyramiding you have ever seen, and all you want to do is fix it's shell. What do you do?
When I joined this forum, I saw just how little I had learned from from youtube and the internet. If I hadn't found this forum, my tort would be dead! I had been researching for OVER A YEAR, and I didn't know you where supposed to soak tortoises until I saw a post on here! I sincerely thank everyone on this forum, because without you guys, I would never have been able to get my sully I have now. I'm hoping everyone can help me on these five months of research, so I can be ready by March. It's always great to have primary resources!
Im going to start by starting a graph of my tortoises weight and recording it every week. I'm going to post the first records tomorrow, seeing as it's 11 pm and I have school in the morning. Hurray for six hours of sleep :/. It would be great if someone could help me with finding the exact causes of pyramiding, and exactly how and why the body makes pyramiding happen.
Again, I can't thank you guys enough for what you do here. I know I'm just rambling at this point, but I sincerely mean everything I've said about everyone on the forum.