I live in Northwest Indiana. I just became the proud foster mom to 2 torts. As far as I was told, females. One is a 15yr old sulcata, the other a 10yr old russian. I work at a small animal vet, and have had herps most of my life. I will post pics of their temp enclosure, and them as soon as I figure out how on the mobile app......any help? Lol

Hi and welcome! Only a "foster", are you sure your not going to want to keep atleast one of them? Eager to see what they are looking like. Can you tell us why they were given up?

I want to keep the sulcata. If she never leaves I won't be mad but one of the hazards of working at a vet is you end up with a lot of animals. We have 2 cats, 6 dogs, one foster dog, 1 parrot, 1 rabbit, and 3 foster buns. Plus a 6 month old and another on the way. Our house is very tiny too, so we are at our space and my husbands patience limit lol. So we will see! And I'm sorry I double posted. Trying to figure out the app is apparently past my technoloy knowledge limit....

Hi Aubs1220:

Welcome to the Tortoise Forum!!

What would you like us to call you?

They were given up because of their caregivers medical reasons. Though I'm glad they did due to poor nutrition given.

Aubs is fine thank you!            

I just reread my posts. I apologize for the typos, I'm on my phone.

Poor Russian...and look at that over-grown beak!

A bit of advice for your sulcata...he won't be able to submerge his nose and mouth in that waterer. It needs to be down into the ground, or else use one with lower sides.

(07-09-2012 07:27 AM)emysemys Wrote:  Poor Russian...and look at that over-grown beak!

A bit of advice for your sulcata...he won't be able to submerge his nose and mouth in that waterer. It needs to be down into the ground, or else use one with lower sides.

One of my questions was going to be how do I file that down? She's eating fine, but I don't want it to get worse.

As soon as my hubby gets home I will have him help me lower that dish. Thanks!

Is the metal pan even big enough for him to get into to soak?

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As for the beak, can your Vet show you how to use a Dremmel to grind it down?

Barely. I did a soak in the tub. I have to wait until my brother in law comes over this weekend, he's bringing one of those hard plastic kiddie pools. One of tthe smaller ones. I just bought a feed dish as a temp fix. Its a work in progress. I eventually want to replace the ” fencing” with brick or cinder blocks, if they become permanent fixtures.

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I grind my parrots bek with a dremel. I wasn't sure if it was the same process. Ill make sure to do that today or tomorrow. As far as the scar, can anyone give me an idea of what could have caused it or if its still active?

Welcome!

Thanks!

Do you mean on the bottom of the Steppe tortoise? That's from being chewed on by a dog. And it looks pretty fresh. I figured you were treating it.

Aubs - welcome to TFO. My bias advice is keep the tortoises and get rid of everything else if your husband thinks you have too many...

(07-09-2012 06:49 AM)Aubs1220 Wrote:  I want to keep the sulcata. If she never leaves I won't be mad but one of the hazards of working at a vet is you end up with a lot of animals. We have 2 cats, 6 dogs, one foster dog, 1 parrot, 1 rabbit, and 3 foster buns. Plus a 6 month old and another on the way. Our house is very tiny too, so we are at our space and my husbands patience limit lol. So we will see! And I'm sorry I double posted. Trying to figure out the app is apparently past my technoloy knowledge limit....

Also not positive from the angle, but it kinda looks to me like that Russian might be a male, not a female. We would need other pictures to be more accurate on that, if gender matters in any way.