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Thankyou for the response. Yeah I think I’ll give it a spray and see if that helps. He clearly comes out some points and we don’t see him because his food gets eaten on his slate in the middle of the enclosure. He gets bathed daily also

More or less yes

Roughly 12 inches

It’s a wooden tortoise table with the light hung over

I’m using a neorep 80w mercury vapor bulb. UVB+uvb+D3

It’s a 4ft by 16inch table. He is roughly 2 inch in diameter

Hi, we’ve had our Russian tortoise for just over a month now and he seems to stay in his hide almost all day, comes out occasionally to eat something. Is this normal? Temps - Basking - 35 degrees Celsius Hot side - 30 degrees Celsius Middle - 25 degrees celcius Cool - 22 degrees celcius...

Okay thankyou

I live in the uk and ide love for my tortoise to be out in the garden. But as the winter months are coming it’s sitting around 10-15 Celsius. Would this temperature still be okay to allow the tortoise to go outside? Or should I keep him inside?

We have tried prickly pair, multi leaf lettuce, coriander, thyme, dandelion, rose petals. It doesn’t seem too interested. Based off advice given here, I changed my substrate out for standard topsoil and have already seen a huge improvement. Still not eating but way more active

Okay I’ll try my best to answer as best I can be obviously I’ve only had a couple of days Warm side - 27 degrees Celsius Cool side - 21 degrees Celsius Basking - 31 degrees Celsius Overnight low I haven’t much checked but I imagine about 19-20 degrees Celsius I live in a hot new build...

Hopefully that helps :)

How would I know if it was healthy ? Are there any checks that I can do at home that are good measures?

How would I know if it was healthy ? Are there any checks that I can do at home that are good measures?

Yeah we have been bathing daily and he seems to liven up at bathtime, but not too interested in good at the moment

Hi, I bought a baby (6 month) horsfield tortoise 2 days ago (Thursday) and I’m worried he’s not eating as he should. Between now and then he has had a couple of bites of a dandelion head and that’s about it. He has been offered several foods from dandelions to multi leaf lettuce and prickly...