@Tom so we have started testing the temp in the bottom drawer of our food fridge to check if the temp is going to be suitable. It's registering around 6.6 degrees at the moment which isn't as cold as I thought it would be. The fridge temp is set to 2 degrees. Will 6.6 be cold enough for him?
@Tom Hi Tom. We are getting ready to brumate our horsfield for the first time and just wondering, when we put him in his container, do we need to cover him in the substrate or just sit him on top of it and let him figure out where he wants to sleep?
Thank you Tom for your advice, I will have a look for some of the foods you suggest. He isn't ever left unsupervised when he's out of his enclosure and he only has the run of the spare room where there are no other pets or people walking around. My husband is at home all day so he sits with...
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Our horsefield, Henry, has been having very wet poos for the past few days so I wanted to make sure we are doing everything we can diet wise before we go down the route of a vets visit. He recently came out of semi-brummation, by which I mean he desperately wanted to hibernate but we...
Thanks Tom. I already read that thread when he first started slowing down and have increased both lighting and heat as suggested. He still seems determined to brumate though. We have been managing to get him to eat after his daily soak until the last few days when he hasn't been interested in...
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We have had our horsfield for about a year now and he seems to have gone into brumation mode. He is around 5 years old. We have been pulling him out every 2 days and giving him a long soak until he empties his bowel and bladder and then he has some food and goes back to sleep...
Thanks, of course I was talking in Fahrenheit. His basking temp is around 35c/95f and his night temp has been set at 20c/68f but we can turn the thermostat up to 24c/75f if that would be better for him. We woke him up and gave him a nice long soak yesterday and he emptied both his bowel and...
We have had our 4/5 year old horsefield since last summer. Since the weather has got colder, he has started sleeping a lot more and become less active. For the past 3 days, he has stayed burried down deep in his soil and not moved at all. We have now put a night heater in his table too which...
Thank you all for your advice. We have changed the bulb today as it wasn't a uv one and also wasn't giving enough heat out. He's had a good soak tonight too and that made him have a wee and poo. He's also had a good munch on some dandelion leaves. We have planted a baby spider plant for him to...
Thank you. We gave him a bath yesterday which he didn't seem too impressed with but we didn't keep him in it for long as was conscious about the water going cold really quickly. How long does he need to soak for?
Hi, we have just acquired a horsefield from someone who didn't want him anymore. We want to make him as happy and healthy as possible as we don't think he has been looked after as well as he should have been. We have had him 3 days now but he doesn't seem to have much of an appetite. He ate...