return to main index

  mobile - desktop
follow us on facebook follow us on twitter follow us on YouTube link to us on LinkedIn
Click here for LLL Reptile & Supply  
click here for Rodent Pro
This Space Available
3 months for $50.00
Locate a business by name: click to list your business
search the classifieds. buy an account
events by zip code list an event
Search the forums             Search in:
News & Events: Herp Photo of the Day: False Coral Snake . . . . . . . . . .  Herp Photo of the Day: Bearded Dragon . . . . . . . . . .  Greater Cincinnati Herp Society Meeting - Apr 02, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  Calusa Herp Society Meeting - Apr 04, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  Southwestern Herp Society Meeting - Apr 06, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  Hamburg Reptile Show - Apr. 13, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  St. Louis Herpetological Society - Apr 14, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  San Diego Herp Society Meeting - Apr 16, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  Suncoast Herp Society Meeting - Apr 20, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  DFW Herp Society Meeting - Apr 20, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  Colorado Herp Society Meeting - Apr 20, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  Chicago Herpetological Society Meeting - Apr 21, 2024 . . . . . . . . . . 
Join USARK - Fight for your rights!
full banner - advertise here .50¢/1000 views
Layne Labs - Natural Diets for Pets & Wildlife
pool banner - $50 year

RE: just one question then...

[ Login ] [ User Prefs ] [ Search Forums ] [ Back to Main Page ] [ Back to Sulcata & Spurred Tortoises ] [ Reply To This Message ]
[ Register to Post ]

Posted by: preptiles at Thu May 17 02:53:59 2007  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by preptiles ]  
   

hello
richard fife covers this topic in his new leopard tortoise book
lack of humidity seems to be my number one guess
i have had the same experiences with one being smooth and one having raised scutes.
But in the outdoor enclosure they did not stay in the same spots
the smooth one always hid under the opuntia cactus bush
It was always moist under the bush but where i live in southern ca it gets really hot for most of the year
she turned out perfectly smooth
the other was always out and about I never saw him in a high moisture hiding spot usually burrowed in the straw hut he developed some raised scutes
these tortoises as babies stay in burrows for most of the first 2 years in the wild
i have never seen it affect a tortoises health having raised scutes
burrows are warm with high humidity
we are now hatching tortoises naturally outdoors in our enclosures and leaving them outside from birth in covered enclosures
only time will tell
thanks
jeff
planet reptiles


   

[ Reply To This Message ] [ Subscribe to this Thread ] [ Show Entire Thread ]


>> Next Message:  RE: just one question then... - elegans, Thu May 17 07:07:20 2007

<< Previous Message:  RE: just one question then... - safaritom, Mon Apr 30 15:34:04 2007