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His indoor enclosure is 4' wide x 10' long, and his garden is 9x10 with a shaded area on one half, a hut that he loves, and organic grasses and other edibles for him to graze all day (as well as a soaking pool). I don't have any other tortoises and as far as I know no one nearby has any either...

Well, it's that lovely time of year again when our now 9 year old male redfoot repeatedly tries to escape the same enclosures he is perfectly content in every other time of year. I'm assuming this is hormonal since it is so cyclical and predictable. We are constantly finding him flipped on his...

Our redfoot's bioactive enclosure is suddenly having infestation issues iwth gnats and small flies. We have traps set up around the outside of the enclosure (zevo plug-in trap & sticky pads) but they have now gotten into the heating system and we are finding them throughout the house. The...

We've always had a great population of clean-up crew candidates right in the garden, but this year?? NONE. We found some babies but they did not survive once we brought them in. I've asked local friends to check their yards for me but I think they're assuming I've lost my mind. Sooooo - I'm...

By the way, many thanks to all who have replied, your input is very much appreciated!

I will check that tomorrow, but we do look at it every day when we take him in & out because we have to reopen it (we keep it locked at night so no animals jump the fence and take up residence in there or worse yet use it as a bathroom). He hasn't been able to go out the last few days because...

Update - nothing has improved & he’s still giving us a runaround. We have to check on him several times an hour & on days we are not home he just can’t be out there. He’s got plenty of sunny areas, plenty of natural shade as well as his house, water, plants to snack on & hide in. But he’s...

That's what we're doing now, redecorating. I went to Lowes yesterday and bought a few things to DIY for him. We don't have enough space to make it larger really (it's about 8x10), plus we spent a good amount on the security fence so I don't know how we'd make it larger without adding more...

We can't remove the fencing, because he was stolen in the past. It took us 10 days of sheer hell to get him back, so after that we put the fence up with a padlocked gate. He's been relentless, every day trying to climb the fence and we're finding him flipped over. We have to go out and check...

We are getting close to being at a loss with our 8 year old redfoot, Puck. Last season he managed to escape his enclosure outside (we still don't know how he climbed a wall of cinderblocks) so this year we expanded it and also added a cyclone-style fence around the cinderblocks that were...