Never have. Caramel is 100% sugar and sulcatas are supposed to limit soluble sugars.

@stumpsulcatatortoise thanks you

Negative. Pyramiding is because of growth with lack of hydration. Only. The thing is, I cannot even find another tortoise that has grown this fast to compare. He has cuddle bone AND used miner-all. As I said, it is a hydration issue with slow growth. This is NOT a slow growth situation. Please find another sulcata that is 50lbs, 20" long and 2yrs 8mo. I would sincerely like to compare.

Giant tortoise 'Bon-chan' - This is the type of Japanese tortoise s/he was! LOL. Mine does a snack in the morning, then brunch before his office nap. Once he leaves the office he grazes in the yard until he comes in for 2 45minute soaks. After the soaks he's looking for his bedtime snack.

@@stumpsulcatatortoise interesting that the tortoises love their routine. when I wear my red sandals, Bonnie comes running and bites. they always react to red color

Oh there's more... This one answered a forum question. I've got to post the videos of his political rally side show.

Totally. He was trying to RUN back in there.

He acts like a very lazy teenager... except when he wants to go somewhere.

I have one that eats more than Stump for his/her size and is 1yr 2mo old and only weighs 1170 grams today. At 1yr and 2 weeks Stump was 5lbs or 2268g. He's going to be a big, big sweet boy.

@@stumpsulcatatortoise yes, he looks great. I guess the girls grow slower

I got him up at 10:00 to go to the farmers market. He walked around a bunch and since it was sunny I put him in the back yard. I DID have it kind of blocked off but he went to the burrow where it was NOT warm. He would have tried to stay there all night. Can't have that.

@@stumpsulcatatortoise He went to the Farmer's Market? 🤣

You mean "wear". Obviously this one does. I mean, you can't train wild animals and it's definitely not AI generated.

I remember when they met in May of 2022. Stump was a bit over 3 months old and was half the size of Quincy. They had a stare down and Stump was frozen. Fast forward to this summer, they were both in the sun room and Quincy walked over to him and started eating off of his plate. Stump stood up with his back legs and tucked his head and front legs in. LOL!

@@stumpsulcatatortoise sound like stumpy was just giving his elder a chance at the food

They definitely are 1)hyperaware of their surroundings and 2) seek out what they like. Yesterday a little girl named Harper met Stump in her driveway. This evening he returned when taking his walk, no Harper but the point is, he did not get a treat for interacting with her yesterday, just liked it and decided to return this evening. They are intelligent.

What on earth do you mean was? :(

@@stumpsulcatatortoise He died...but he lived a long time and was happy. (and spoiled)

Yes, every evening he has a soak, yes he interacts with wildlife and often eats with groundhogs in the yard and yes, he will flip if I rub him and he has a good salad, he will flip his front two legs.

They are prone to eating rocks occasionally and people think that they get mineral supplements from this. We give him Miner-All calcium weekly but it doesn't help really. Does a 47lb tortoise that is 2yrs 6months sound like it needs a supplement? Can you find an example of a larger one for his age? Seriously, I've been looking high and low. I think it's just what they do. Easier digestion. One round through for grass doesn't digest all of it. This is why they continually eat stool including their own. Does he get Sepia scales? No. What are these?

Cuttlefish Bone, mine loves it. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuttlebone

Oh, you mean country club? Yeah. He thinks he owns the joint. He won't move in my wife's office if he's pooped until she gets it and he stares us if his food is too far for him to reach on his plate like we're supposed to stack it up for him. He IS absolutely the sweetest boy tortoise. There is not a mean bone in his humongous body. I don't think they're generally supposed to be this big at 2 yrs 6 months.

I just looked at his weight chart. In this photo on Tuesday he was 151grams. The next Tuesday he was 173g on July 5th and was 199g on July 12 2022.

Not even close. He's a bit over 45lbs now and his plate is an 18" pizza pan. 30 minutes ago I piled 3/4 of it about 6" high and he finished it and went to bed. That's after eating inside earlier this afternoon then grazing on grass outside.

@@stumpsulcatatortoise DANG can you do a video where it eats an entire days worth of food plz?

This guy. Depending on when I weigh him in the day, whether or not he's pooped or soaked he's right around 45lbs. It's getting real.

Coming next. Stumpy does Darth Vader.... chkkkk, chkkk

I can answer this exactly because Stump is 45.3lbs. Age doesn't matter. Mine eats about the size of his shell each day in grass/weeds/greens/etc. He didn't graze outside today at all and when he came in, after his soak, he ate an 18" pizza plate about 8-10" high with greens then went to bed.

By weight that is 900-1100g or up to about 2.5lbs. This makes sense because I've read that they eat about 5% of their weight daily. Wait until they are 200lbs and eating 10lbs of food every day.

Absolutely. They can hear up to 1-2K or so and distinguish voices.

He is not house trained at all. That said, he hangs out between 10:30 or 11 am until 3-5pm in my wife's office on substrate in one of those drain pans for a washing machine with a heat lamp. He usually poops in there, it is bagged with a rubber glove and thrown away and then he goes out. When he's done in the yard or going on a walk, etc. he walks to our sunroom to go inside. Once inside he ALWAYS gets an Aveeno bubble bath soak for 2 45 minute sessions regardless of if is peed or pooped more outside. When he is in his soak he usually pees the first round, urates the second round and then does the "moon walk" when he brings his member out. All of that goes down the drain. Then he gets a heated towel and a big plate of greens. Then he walks into his bed where he will emerge or be brought to the office.

They grow at vastly different rates based on many factors but they need to be eating a food portion about the size of their shell every day. I have a video on preparing their food. I used Mazuri small tortoise LS for the first year for both Stump AND Figgy. Figgy was just under 2lbs @ one year, 6.5" long, 4.5" wide and 3" high. 2 weeks after one year Stump was 5lbs. Honestly I can't find many examples of a sulcata that has grown like him in 2yrs 5mo.

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