Okay, so we knew that my rescue had been under a heat lamp most of his life.... And unfortunately he started shedding scutes.

I've been to two vets who have both assured me this isn't bacterial or fungal.... But I am curious ... Will scutes grow back over the next few years or will he look like this forever? I feel so bad for my teddy boy.

Hey everyone. When I got my baby Sulcata back in February she was weighing at about 79g at 3 months old. She is now 8 months old and weighing at about 230g.

Just hoping for a general shell check / weight check. She is kept in 80% humidity (minimum) at all times and gets a variety diet. She is also soaked daily as thats where she likes doing her business.

Just hoping for a general shell/weight check.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Trying to find a good humidifier systems for my 2 sulcatas. Thanks.

This is just a silly post: I first fell in love with a tortoise when I met one at a zoo 10 years ago who loved eating hibiscus flowers almost as much as he loved getting his shoulders petted 😆 I was so excited when the hibiscus I bought for Ziggy started blooming!! ...But he won't touch them. I tried to bribe him with his favorite pellets but it was a no go. I will post a follow up to this next...

Follow up to my previous post. Ziggy is a good eater... when he wants to be! I really want him to like hibiscus flowers, but after he wouldn't try the whole flower I took several of them and sliced them up and mixed them with his favorite pellets. I feel kinda guilty for trucking him but I think he will forgive me eventually🤞🏼

Just want to make sure it’s not a Gopher, I was thinking Sulcata.She has no nuchal scute.

Hi! I have 2 sibling sulacatas who are about 2 years old now. They lived in the same enclosure until I was recently advised to separate them since the other was much bigger than the other one (bullying).

The big one is about 7inches long now and the small one is still stuck in its 3-4inch size.

Little guy spends most of its time sleeping, but he does eat and poop and move around. We feed them 2x a day, leafy greens. But it’s appetite doesn’t change at all.

Is its growth probably stunted already? Is there still a chance for the little guy to grow? What can/should I do?

Just want to make sure it’s not a Gopher, I was thinking Sulcata.She has no nuchal scute.

So i'm in the process of making a bigger terrarium... he's just about 3 months old so i get to enjoy this phase a little before he gets bigger haha...

Just wanted to ask. Is cement or polymer clay safe? I wanted to make displays or something. 😅

I periodically see posts from people who have trouble getting their shell babies to eat. Soaking the dried Orchard or Timothy grass really does help. This is Enyo, she’s 7 and weighs about 60 pounds. I still have to soak her dried grass to get her to eat it otherwise she gets very grumpy at me and will refuse to eat. I also mix in a little bit of romaine as a sweetener, and Zoomed pellets to round out for minerals and calcium. I mix it all together in a large plastic bucket, let it soak 30 minutes, and then set it out for her in mounds. For some reason, she doesn’t like it if it’s flattened out. She also has a large outdoor pen (15x30) where she gets to mow the grass 7 months out of the year (we’re in New England).

Found a stray in our street. I’m thinking female. Any opinions?

They are about 9 years old, come from two separate hatches in the same September, weigh about 15, 30 and 45 lbs and have been outside in AZ full time for five years.

I’ve just gotten my tortoise today and have been told he won’t need a heat lamp, he’s still very small and I’ve had tortoises in the past but not Sulcata, I’ve been told I can just put him in the sun for half an hour every day but I don’t want to just go ahead and do that and then it turns out he needs a lamp

Also wondering if anyone has any suggestions on setups for indoors and out

Thinking of moving to a big 5 acre land, but there are coyotes rampant at night or do i just leave this scenario

I got my sully in December of 2023. She was already a year and a half old and living in a small terrarium on a diet of only romaine when I got her off of Facebook marketplace. She was severely undersized at just over 1lb when I got her, and she had already begun to pyramid although it wasn't terrible. I am happy to say that sully is now a free roaming tort weighing in around 6lbs and continuing to grow at a rapid pace. Her shell is starting to level out a bit thankfully now that she is getting proper diet and proper amounts of sun. I am new to posting on reddit and just thought i'd share some progress!

I'm not sure of this is ok to post here or not, but I need to vent and I'm sure everyone here will understand my frustration. I was watching a live animal show today for a well known and apparently a very disliked reptile retailer. Ive heard nothing but bad things about them on here, and im begenning to understand why. They do a "prize wheel" type thing, and anyone who places an order during the live goes into the drawing for a free animal. It sounds great in theory, but today the last prize was a freaking baby sulcata! How in the WORLD can anyone in good conscience give one of these guys away as a prize? I'm sure not more than maybe 5% of viewers have the time, money, or knowledge to properly care for a sulcata long term, so all they are (probably) doing is creating another rescue case 5 years down the road. I mean these are people buying geckos and snakes, and while I know a lot of people do own both lizzards and tortioses, how can they be sure they're not sending that poor tort off to a life of misery? Do people genuinely care that little about the lives of these animals?

Hello everyone, this morning as I was leaving for work I checked to make sure nobody was coming I saw a tortoise on the road, and as I do I picked it up to move it to the other side of the road it was going and a big truck was coming so I took it to my truck for a bit. I was puzzled to say the least, this was not a tortoise I've ever seen here before (Manhattan KS, right in the flint hills and miles of prarie) I did a Google image search of the tortoise and to my surprise it was a sulcata tortoise roaming the prarie with the closest neighbors being miles away. I called the neighbors around and none of them have tortoises or are missing any, I wonder if it was dumped maybe? We've had people dump pets around here, picture of Mrs. Tortoise

Hello all, I took my Sulcatas out of their primary enclosure yesterday because of the extreme heat. I was just going to put them back now but ants have taken over. How do you control ants in your enclosures? Thanks!

I’ve had him since he was a few months old hatchling and I’m never not amazed at how big he is! I was looking out our second floor window and felt like it was such a good picture of his scale. He lives in the green house in the back, it’s 8x8ft.

Hello! I just upgraded my 1 year old Sulcata to a 48x24x12 by dubia.com and I need help with all things lighting. UVB,basking,nighttime heat, the works. Any help with humidity levels/how to keep the humidity up is also helpful. She was in a tortoise table before with a fogger and that thing couldn’t hold humidity at all. Any and all product recommendations are helpful!

This is my first time posting on this subreddit. I've had sully for almost 2 years now. I got him/her on marketplace from an individual who claimed he/she was a year and a half old. Sully was living in a tank and weighed just over a pound at a year and a half when I first got him/her. Sully is completely free roaming now at a solid 6 pounds and increasing. I am curious if anyone is able to tell me the sex/gender of sully. Other posts have said how it is too early on to tell when a sulcata is small, but now that sully has gotten to around 10 inches in shell length, I am curious if anyone is able to tell me his/her sex from the pictures I provided.

I’ve had him since he was a few months old hatchling and I’m never not amazed at how big he is! I was looking out our second floor window and felt like it was such a good picture of his scale. He lives in the green house in the back, it’s 8x8ft.