Toro's first swim

Toro was trying his first swim (under eagle eye supervision).




The session was 10 minutes, and he looked at me saying, "you do that one more time to me, i'm gonna stop eating for a week!!"
Yes he hated it


Ps. I will never post this session outside TFO. don't want any newcomer thinks tortoises can swim. it has risk!!

.. i love his leg's scale ..

Oh yes, in the last picture Toro looks very unhappy, mayby angry......
Please take his threat no longer to eat seriously !

He's so cute!!! Great practice little guy!!

Bee62 said:

Oh yes, in the last picture Toro looks very unhappy, mayby angry......
Please take his threat no longer to eat seriously !

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Lol! yes indeed! and then after the session, i gave him 1 pieces of mazuri LS. that calm his anger for half .

GingerLove said:

He's so cute!!! Great practice little guy!!

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Maybe this is good thing to introduce him to something new. sadly he didn't like it.

Wow that is one smooth looking sulcata. Congratulations!

Our sulcata loves the water & mud..... I guess it just depends on the tort!

Nice pix, cute 'lil sully. Was your water warm enough? We found that our lil guy really liked his water on the very warm side. You might want to tilt/slope your container so that it goes from very shallow to deep. Your sully can then find a depth that he enjoys.

I think you should wait until he is older for swimming lessons. Then give him a pond or puddle he can get in and out of on his own.

Maro2Bear said:

Nice pix, cute 'lil sully. Was your water warm enough? We found that our lil guy really liked his water on the very warm side. You might want to tilt/slope your container so that it goes from very shallow to deep. Your sully can then find a depth that he enjoys.

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Yes warm enough. Same temp with his soak temp which he loved.

Big Charlie said:

I think you should wait until he is older for swimming lessons. Then give him a pond or puddle he can get in and out of on his own.

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Yes you are right! He loves his soak, this is freaking him out. Should try again when he is older. Make him one in his outdoor, but absolutely not now.

Toro is the cutest! I love seeing his pictures

One of my sullys like water. He soak himself every morning. He sits in the warm water, stretching neck and legs, enjoying it very much. But my other two sullys avoid the water bowl. When I soak them, they hate it ....
And they hate it when the warm sprinkle of the flower sprayer water makes their shells wet.
I think if they could write, they would make a big poster with the text: "Why does it always rain on us ? "
And here`s a picture of my "water loving tortoise" Leo.