Recent content by Geode890

Thank you all for the tons of great information! :) I took a look into the Kapidolo farms stuff, and while it does seem to be pretty good, it also seems to be a bit more expensive (only by about 50 cents an ounce, albeit) and the herbal hay seems to have a tad more inherent variety to it, do I...

You pretty much guessed it. My initial plan was to stay in my apartment for only a short period and then get the space to grow the optimal variety of food, but that plan got pretty sidetracked, and seems like it will be for the foreseeable future. As of now, I have to stick to the grocery store...

Hey all. For the past few years I've been getting the Tortoise Supply Herbal Hay for my russian tortoise, but with everything going on recently (and I feel like the herbal hay itself got more expensive?) it's been getting harder to fit it into my budget, so I've been looking into alternatives. I...

Yup. Should have probably mentioned I’m over on the East Coast. Fir bark does seem to be a bit pricey here. I’m a tad hesitant to try pine related stuff after reading that some can be too strong and hurt the tortoise’s eyes and skin though, unless someone has evidence against that occurring...

Out of curiosity, do you get it online or in a chain like Lowes or Menards or anything like that? For comparison, I've been able to get a bag of 2 cubic feet of cypress for around $6, of which I need two or three to properly fill the enclosure. I did a quick search and the cheapest I could find...

Hey everyone. I asked a tangentially related question quite awhile ago, so sorry for the potential double-posting, but would anyone happen to know of any alternatives for cypress mulch in a tortoise enclosure? For the past handful of years, I've been using cypress mulch, but for some reason I've...

After searching for it, there is a Home Depot around an hour away. Weird it didn't come up as a hardware or garden center nearby. Thank you, and I'll keep that in mind for the future, provided they don't also remove it from their inventory! In the meantime, I've already purchased the weird mulch...

Hey everyone. For the past year or so, I've been able to get pure cypress mulch for my Russian tortoise's enclosure, but as of late, many places seem to be stopping selling it, with only one selling pure cypress mulch at a rather high price and a few others carrying this cypress-rose mulch...

Sorry to bring up a rather old thread. Here's the pictures of Geode. If you need more to get a better idea, just let me know! And I just now realized that it looks like his beak is cracked in the leftmost picture, but I checked and it's just the lighting, so no need to worry! I'm going to try to...

Hey everyone. Recently, after realizing that tortoises likely needed their nails clipped too, I began to look into doing so. I came across one thread that mentioned that Russian Tortoise nails were naturally long, but I was wondering if there was a metric of some sort to tell if they are too...

Thank you for your input! As I have a UVB light, I think that I may try to get a calcium+D3 powder and use it in place of one dosage of pure calcium, so he gets one dosage of calcium, one dosage of calcium+D3, and once dosage of a multivitamin one a week. That should account for the presence of...

Hey all! Newbie asking another question again. :p Currently, I have a 26 watt, Reptile UVB 150 Desert UVB bulb from the ExoTerra brand. It's right around a foot above the substrate, and thus probably somewhere from 8-10 inches from the actual tortoise shell. It does sit on top of a rather...

Ah. I suppose I didn't pick up on that. I misinterpreted the first succulent-related section as an "include sometimes" kind of thing. Looking through the database, it seems as if globe artichoke would be a good thing to include, along with a tiny bit of kale, and I'll start trying to grow the...

Thank you for the quick reply! I'm a touch confused though, as the latter guide says that "If you don't have access to weeds during the winter, you can feed mustard greens, kale, and collard greens." If you can feed them those all winter, I'm surprised that I saw any ill effects this early on...

I hope these are alright for the moment! He is sunning himself and I didn't want to interrupt him too much. :P