So I know that rose hips are safe for torts to eat...which is great because we rose bushes growing wild all over our place and the hips are nice and ruby red now.
My question is, how do you prep them? Do you let the tortoise eat them whole or do you cut them up and de-seed them? The only reason...
So it's the dead of winter and my little Viola is restless. It's too cold outside to let her run around but the inside of the house is fully carpeted and we keep it at around 70 in the winter. I'd love to let her roam around (with supervision of course) but the problem is she poops everywhere...
Hi guys, since this is my friend's lizard (and she lives an hour away) I don't know all the details but hopefully I can help a little bit.
She got the water dragon from a breeder at an expo. He was the largest of the group and much more robust looking. So probably a month old? The powersun is...
So I'm posting this on behalf of my friend's 6mo old water dragon. Over the past few days he had become lethargic and unwilling to eat. A trip to the vet confirmed he had MBD. When I heard this, I was shocked. His set up is probably one of the best set ups I have ever seen for a water dragon...
So maybe once a week or so, I've been adding chopped Bermuda grass hay to Viola's diet. I figured the nice fiber source would be good for her.
But on a rather slow day at work, I decided to roam the internet and read a dozen or so different caresheets on Redfoots, and I noticed a specific...
I never see poop in Viola's enclosure except if its in her water dish/soaking tub. Other than that, she eats it. Gross, but I suppose it makes cleaning easier for me!
Hiya! Congrats on your new tortoise!
Everyone is right, those things are JUNK. I used to work at Petco, and we used those pellets to just "bulk up" the food so we didn't have to spend so much money on veggies (and our Russian tortoises ate anything you put in there). Sure, it has vitamins in...
Thanks for the info! This summer's project will be building Viola a larger enclosure (I can hardly believe she's 7 inches long already!!), so I suppose depending on how much space she ends up having, we'll see if another tort is feasible. :)
If any of you live in Western Washington, you KNOW how bipolar our weather is! I was so excited, because this Monday was a WHOPPING 82 degrees!! Perfect tortoise outdoor weather!! But...my first day off from work was Wednesday, so I couldn't do anything for Viola and Toni until then. Wouldn't...
So I work at a vet office (just a dog/cat one, mind you) and one of our technicians used to work with reptiles at another clinic. We were talking about tortoises, when I mentioned Viola, my solitary Redfoot. This made her raise a brow, and say "she's all alone? I always heard that Redfoots liked...
Before I had a tortoise, I used to not really care about dandelion, or view them as pesty weeds.
Now every time I see a large group of them, I think, "lunch!!".
You know you're a tortoise lover then, lol.
Hi there! Like you, my Viola didn't like cuttlebone either. I was told to wait it out but....1 year later, she still hadn't touched it! It was quite "aged" by then, and she still hadn't taken so much as a nibble.
But then, in a chance discovery at a Reptile Expo, I found Zoo Med's "Tortoise...
So I've noticed recently in Toni's moss, that there seem to be tiny, salt/sugar grain sized insects living in there. They seem to stay buried deep within the moss, and come out to mass on any sort of decaying material, like some leftover food. Toni doesn't seem to be bothered, and the insects...
Viola goes crazy for clover. Its like candy for her. She'll even ignore the bright yellow color of dandelion flowers (also a favorite) in order to devastate whole clover patches. You can find seed packs for clover at pretty much any Co-Op supply store. I think they sell the seed mixes for...
So, I have Viola, my RF, in a 55 gal Rubbermaid storage container. Her bedding is 100% Sphagnum Moss, and her water dish is one of those large ceramic pot bottoms. Her basking light, which is a 100watt Powersun is on the side of her water dish for extra humidity. She also has a towel...
Also agree with. As much as vets cost money, no terrible vet is ever worth a single penny! So find one that you like and trust, even if it is expensive, the outcome of having a much more knowledgeable vet than a crappy, cheap one, is worth its way in gold! :)
So in short, I agree with both of...
I don't have anything else to offer, but what Jesst said is pat-down. I work in a vet clinic as well (just a receptionist though) and that is so true. Medications, supplies, buying new equipment and maintaining them, paying fees to keep up with OSHA standards, paying for specialist to come in...
Funny enough, I guess I am the odd one out. I take my torts to a vet annually. I had to find a good vet when I got Viola, because she had an upper respiratory infection, and mild shell rot. She was a pet store tortoise, so no surprise she wasn't doing so well. At least her fecal test was...
I attempted to switch both Viola and Toni to a 100% Sphagnum moss substrate. The thing is...its not cheap. So I went to home Depot, paid $10 for three huge logs of it, put it in the freezer for a few days to "sterilize" and then switched over their bedding. Its working nicely too. Its clean...