Hello!
Some of you might remember me as the owner of Darwin, a sulcata tortoise. Unfortunately in August Darwin met an early end. I was utterly devastated, however I decided to try again and bought another hatchling who I later named Lucy after a well known ecologist (Gotta stick with the...
Hello! Some of you may remember me from last winter when I got Darwin, my baby Sulcata tortoise as a Christmas present. You were all very instrumental in my caring for him and I wanted to start off by thanking you all for your help.
This winter I have run into a few problems. In June I moved...
Hello,
So as you all may know I am a college student who's life is pretty much constantly a jumbled mess. Thus far, though, I have done a great job at caring for Darwin and while he has a little pyramiding showing through, must of his growth has been pretty smooth. He is very active and doing...
So Darwin is growing quite quickly, but I have few questions.
His plastron is over two inches long now, and there is some obvious growth on his shell. I had a little bit of pyramiding but was able to head it off pretty quickly an any recent growth is pretty good. My main question though is I...
So I am ordering a heating pad for Darwin online tonight. His scutes aren't growing out smoothly so I'm a bit worried he may be pyramiding despite the measures I've currently gone to to make sure he doesn't. Does anyone know how the heat from the heating pad will react with the moss? It sounds...
Hey guys! I thought I would give you a quick update on how Darwin is doing! I moved back in almost two weeks ago and he seems to be doing much better in the dorms rather than my house. I attribute this to the coldness of my house (It's old and poorly built). Even though he still has days where...
Hey guys! I posted a reply to my original thread, but got no response. I was wondering if anyone could explain what my little guy is doing.
What he does is he goes out and basks/sleeps for extended periods of time. It pretty much has gotten to the point of being all he does. Sometimes he'll...
Hello! My name is Maggie, and I'm studying Environmental Science in a small school in midwest. I have kept my critters before (In high school I had four tanks in my room holding different reptiles and amphibians) I've kept turtles before, but sadly had to get rid of them when I went off to...