Recent content by TurtleTina

Hi Yvonne, thanks for the advice! Little Turtle used to come up and bask under the basking bulb, then go straight to his food and then burrow down under his little rock (this is directly below his basking lamp). Now, he just stays burrowed and won’t come up to bask or eat or anything! He...

Hi Tom thanks for your response! Yes one bulb is basking, and the other is UVB. I am aware the substrate is quite dry and so I do daily mistings of it to keep the humidity up! Wasn’t sure whether to switch straight from what little Turtle is accustomed to, or to do this slowly so as to avoid...

Hi everyone! Excited to finally have joined the site. My name’s Christina and I bought a 1 year old Hermanns Tort and called him Turtle (it’s a long story lol). I’ve had him for 3 months now, at the store he was kept in reptile sand with some hemp bedding. I want to keep him in topsoil mostly...