Recent content by Nsav

Sorry for your loss.

Hey Blackdog — I will heed your advice and enter the Nuthouse (at my own risk)! Thank you. But before I do, here’s a parting story on this generic thread: Three tortoises tried escaping an asylum. While walking, the first one, a Sulcata, said, “if there’s a tall fence, we’ll dig under it.”...

“Maxim,” means the greatest in Russian.

A state trooper stopped me on I-95 when I was driving around with my leopard tortoise, Desmond, in the front seat without a seatbelt. “What are you doing with that turtle?” He exclaimed, “you should take it to the zoo!” Luckily, he didn’t give me a ticket. A week later, the same cop pulled...

So I changed his name to Turdle. Lol.

Great point. My tort is only 7 months old so it’ll probably be a year before I move him outside. And then I’ll put the sign on his outdoor enclosure.

I got a new home security system from Amazon, and it only cost me $8. Here it is…. I also got one for a friend who keeps spotted turtles and western painted turtles.

Surprisingly, I’ve found that regular tooth paste or even WD-40 do a really great job cleaning out dull headlight casings. See the before and after shots below in just a few minutes. But don’t try this on your tort’s 65w incandescent flood lights tho!

Hahaha. It was only a joke. You all have taught us well about lighting requirements.

So I renamed him Noc-turtle. Hee-hee.

Happy Birthday Lyns, from Desmond.

Thanks Yvonne. I was very excited to go and see the turtles and tortoises (my only interest too) but came back a little depressed.

I only purchased a piece of driftwood, not a tortoise. I attached a picture. And the sulcata that was about 8 inches long was easily going to grow another foot or two. But the vendor told the prospective customer that it was basically full-grown.

This weekend I traveled about an hour (near Philly) to attend my first reptile expo. It was madness. Hundreds of vendors selling snakes, lizards, spiders, turtles, tortoises, and lots of frozen mice, rats etc. I got to see my first Aldabra (outside of a zoo), and tons of leopards, red foots...

A few months ago, after reading that Tom and others recommended using plain old fashioned 60 watt incandescent flood light bulbs from the local hardware stores, I quickly ran over to the Home Depot in my NJ town. I asked the nice lady in the lighting section where I could find these bulbs and...