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Hello every body :D it's been long since my last update in this forum so i think it's better for me to make a new thread instead of posting on my last thread so here we go :D first this is my Meter :) if you still remember him.. he got bitten by rodent a year ago and now his hand already been...

I got 2 indian star in my care right now, and I did some research about their grow pace, and I found this on 17th july 2013 Meter weight around 50 gram and had 5,5 cm in long Mile weight around 60 gram and had 6,2 cm in long and just this morning I tried to measure them again Meter...

please tell me that this is mustard green... , I don't know the International name but here in my country we call it caisim and is this plant okay?

My MVB Bulb broke this morning and I don't know how , I bought it about last month so I'm not going to buy that brand anymore. So here's the situation: because the MVB broke and I can't afford to buy a better one so I install a long tube light (10 watt) for lighting purpose and a...

I tried to feed my meter with some mazuri every week.. but it seems that he doesn't like it very much, every time I serve mazuri he will smell it and walk on it. Should I stop giving him mazuri? (I already try mixing with some greens that he always have)

excuse me , I already read a thread in this forum due to substrate discussion , but that's already old so I think I should make a new thread for it. I'm thinking to mix some coco peat with sand , the composition is 60% : 40%, and inside the hide i'm going to use spagnum moss. I also read...

please help , my indian star got hurt I found him this morning with this state , overall the injury : - right front foot and left back foot has been severely injured, he still could move it but hardly to support his body to walk - left front foot lost 1 claw , some scale and the skin still...

after I arrange the set up inside the enclosure like pic below it's seems that meter always stay below the log and never go to the other side any idea what should I do with the other side?

At last the moment for my meter to get a real enclosure has come T.T this is the comparison and here it is :D i'm using a MVB 100 watt, basking area are 42C , Cool end area around 30C, humidity at basking area are 50% and at the cool end area around 70% please...

this morning I notice that meter chew on some spagnum moss inside his hide box, is it okay? I only knew that spagnum moss are good substrate to keep the humidity

I still confuse about placing the ceramic heater and the basking light... well the store keeper told me that I could use the ceramic heater 24 hours for whole enclosure, doesn't that mean I won't need any basking light for my tortoise? because the heat are already build up by the ceramic heater...

I tried to put some spagnum moss inside the hiding box for meter , but he seems to take a step back from the hiding box... is there's a problem with the spagnum moss?

Hi , I want to confirm something about How to take care an Indian Star.. here's what I've learn so far: Indian star needs : -Humidity at least : 75%-85% -Basking point : 95 F -Cool heat end : 75 F -Lighting : Sunlight for 12 Hours if the weather are not good try use UVB bulb, use Heater...

i notice there's some peel off skin near his neck , at first I though that was substrate slip in his neck but when i tried to pull it I notice that is skin!! , isnit because the substrate too rough? and i could see his shell have a contray line all over him, is it because pyramiding start to occur?

hi everyone , meter (my indian star tort) is currently almost 11 month and I want to know , do meter need calcium? I was thinking that maybe calcium are given to those who have reach the age more than 3 years. And I saw 2 kind of calcium one is made by Exoterra and the other one is from...

is this natural? my tort won't go out from his house and he haven't eat anything from this morning

hello every one , i like to ask some advice to keep the humidity level in my tort home and several question about lightning first , please take a look at this picture below see the different? the second picture show that it is more dry than the first picture , what should i do about...

hello everybody :D my name is jhongsen and i'm new in raising a tortoise named meter aged is probably around 10 month and here we goes , i want to ask that what food should i give to my meter? previously someone tell me that i should feed meter with coriander . mulberry leaves and some...

i just buy my new indian star tortoise around 1 year old just now he become acting weird , he do some hiccups? there some bubble come out from his nose and i give him some green cabbage but he doesn't seem to eat it.. what should i do?

Hi everyone my name is Jhongsen I'm from Indonesia so don't expect me to be good in english and I really need your help, so here we go. my friend told me that tortoise has 2 kind , the water type and the land type and I think I will pick the land type , by the way I'm going to buy the little...