I found mushrooms growing in shelly's tub this weekend under both the food and water bowls.
From what I can find online, they look like shaggy mane mushrooms:
http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Mushrooms.Folder/Shaggy%20Mane.html
anyone know if they are harmful? I pulled out most of them...
Ok. so we were at the herp show here in San Antonio last weekend and there were quite a few torts, leapords and redfoots and sulcatas. One lady that was selling a sulcata hatchling told the buyer that it was ok to soak maybe once a week, but they were desert torts and got all their water from...
O.K. after the pyramiding thread almost got hyjacked by uvb, let's have it out.
Seems there are some out there that don't UVB. Is this bad or not?
And for those that don't UVB, do your torts get natural rays or vitamin d supplement?
I am curious because I read that ig's don't process dietary...
any of y'all feed your torts comm. diets? ie Mazuri or T-Rex
Any why if you do, do you?
I looked up the contents of the Mazuri tortoise food and it's full of things I wouldn't feed a tort:
Alfalfa
Soybeans
Corn
Soybean oil
Cane Molasses
So what do y'all think is the main cause?
too much protein
not enough UVB
not enough water
I think after reading what I can find, that Humidity is number 1.
UVB would be next I think.
Just because I've seen pics of turtles basking under UVB that still pyramid.
Shelly is our new sulcata tortoise. It was purchased from a breeder in Waxahachie, Tx. He also seems to rescue torts as well. His adults were real beaut's, perfectly smooth shells.
Right now shelly is hanging out in a sterilite tub with moist top soil and hay. Only one hide so far, but more...