Help identifying this tortoise

[Alexander1]

 

[Alexander1]

Bump

 

[kinyonga]

Wish I could tell you.

 

[JacksJill]

@Tortdad Do you know?

 

[Virgil1972]

I googled tortoises with black shells and I got pictures of everything from Jennifer Aniston to a cat you can get in the sims. I don't understand the google sometimes.

 

[kinyonga]

Is this it???? Just guessing...
https://www.google.ca/search?q=tort...d=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=beFyH63Egl0xZM:

 

[DigitalBeetle]

Looks like a really dark shelled sulcata

 

[Virgil1972]

Looks like a really dark shelled sulcata

I see it to. Maybe thats what it is, like a morph.

 

[Tortdad]

It a sulcata tortoise

 

[Tortdad]

It's shell is pyramiding from being kept too dry

 

[kinyonga]

I thought pyramiding was from a nutrient imbalance not from being too dry....but..
here's a very interesting article from a knowledgeable person...
http://www.tortoisetrust.org/articles/pyramiding.html

 

[Virgil1972]

I thought pyramiding was from a nutrient imbalance not from being too dry.

There is some stuff out there now that points to humidity being a factor.

 

[kinyonga]

I guess my turtle tables were humid enough that it never came into play...and them food I gave them was nutritious too...cause I never had any apparent pyramiding....and I had quite a few tortoises I raised from very young.

 

[Virgil1972]

Genetics my be a factor with pyramiding to. I watched a video on you tube the other day that had a guy on there who raises and breeds Aldabras and he had a few that were all the same age kept in same conditions and feed the same stuff. Some of the tortoise had smooth shells and some had a little bit of pyramiding. Those tortoise also ranged in size from a around 400 pounds to the biggest one at around 550.

 

[Tortdad]

For a long time people thought Pyramiding was caused but poor diets but that is a very old school care. We now know 100% that it is caused from the tortoise being kept in too dry of conditions. Humidity has to be kept at a high level for the first few years so the tortoise can grow nice and smooth.

Take this sulcata as an example. Most people call these a desert tortoise and keep them very dry but in fact they are a grassland tortoise from the forest edge. Grass and forest mean lots of rain. In the wild these sulcata are hatched during the monsoon season and for years spend 99% of there day down in a nice humid burrow.

I may not know much about Chameleons yet but torts are my thing

 

[Scottsquatch]

I kept a redfoot for 10 years. He's with a friend now and gets more pampering than I gave him and I took pretty good care of him! I love to see him when I visit my friend.