I got some of the spineless Opuntia cactus from tortoisesupply.com and I just put the pads on the surface of the soil, and they just started growing on their own!! All they need for growing are sun and water. Pretty easy! :)
Although I couldn't get my little guys to eat them yet.... I think...
Thank you guys for sharing your experience with me! For some reason I didn't get any email notice so I didn't know I got so many responses. :)
ashers, I'm glad I'm not the only one who is experiencing this! It's interesting how they could sense that the winter is here, even though the temp...
I hope he doesn't see me as predators! :p although Panda George is more baby than Shiao-Heh but she wakes up on her own. :)
I have the lights and heat lamp on timers. In summer, the lights are on from 6:30 am to 6:30 PM. In winter, because of the daytime saving, also I was too lazy to change...
Thanks Terry! Sorry if I wasn't being clear enough with my concern.. Is it bad that I "force" him to wake up every morning? Normally in summer he will be awake on his own at around 6:30 am and don't go to sleep till 5-6 PM (well, he takes naps in between of course :p )
But now if I don't wake...
hello! I'm wondering if anyone is experiencing the same thing like me? I have to wake up my tort baby "manually" almost everyday during winter!
I have two Hermanns: Shiao-Heh is a bit over 2 year old, and Panda George is about one and half year old. They both got their annual exam in August...
update on the vet trip!
The vet told me that he thinks Panda George looks fine and perfectly healthy. She grows relatively slower than my older one - the vet said it could either be because she grows slower naturally, or it could be some parasite in her when she was born (maybe the mom had...
I didn't use anything new. I just switched her to a bigger enclosure, that all. :p
Everything is the same from the old set up:
Cypress substrate (although I got her fresh new bags since the old substrate was 7 month old already)
Zoomed mercury UVB light
My apt is so hot this week so I actually...
Hi Tom, thanks for the comments! She gets to have some of the weeds and flowers I grow (mallow, storks bill, clover, radish leaves, mallow flowers, and some weed seed mix I bought and grew in pots so I'm not sure exactly what are in it). She doesn't like clovers too much though, also the mallows...
Thanks guys for the suggestions and support! I will call the vet the first thing in the morning tomorrow when they open..
I'm thinking to bring in the poop for a fecal exam at the vet. If it's really the protozoan parasite causing the blood pee, would it show in the fecal exam? How would the...
Hi, I'm really worried about my Hermanns baby Panda George. She is one and half year old and 3 inches long, 94 grams.
She peed some blood looking thingy when I soaked her today. I totally freaked out and started doing research on the forum, since the vet is closed already. I saw people...
Thanks guys for the suggestions! I really need to put some thought into their living situation here... Only if I have a bigger place!
Tom, I agree with you... Shiao-heh was definitely a lot more fearless than Panda George even when he/she was little! She flipped over all the time from...
OMG!!!!! I refuse to accept the fact Shiao-Heh is a duuuuuude!!!!!!!!!!! :(
Shiao-Heh means Little Blacky in Chinese so I guess it could be either a boy or girl. But.... OMG!!! I've been calling and HOPING Shiao-Heh is a "she" for almost 2 yrs now... Sigh, maybe that explains why "he" wanders...
Shia-Heh's butt...
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Thanks! :) I've attached some pics of Shiao-Heh. Can anyone help me determine her sex?
I was really hoping for two females so that I can avoid the situation Terry mentioned, so when I bought them, I asked the breeders what sex they thought their babies would "most likely"...
Hello! My Shiao-Heh (almost 2 yr old and about 4.2 inches long) likes to wander around all the time during summer! On the weekends, I tend to feed them later in the afternoon to force them exercise more (they would try to look for food). But I notice that Panda George (about 15 months old, about...
Thanks guys! I only had the white radish before and never tried the red one... So the leaves are edible for torts and the root is edible for us? What a great plant! Haha...
Just out of curiosity, how did you guys distinguish between radish and beet? I just google them and them look the same to...
Hello! Could anyone please help me identify this? I bought the seed mix and I don't know exactly what were in there. Does this look like beet? Not that I like to eat beet that much anyway, but it would be cool if they are! Then I can feed the leaves to my torts and I'll eat the beets later. :)...
Hello! Could anyone help me check out Shiao-Heh? I was doing some research on the forum because I saw dry/ sloughing(?) skin on her neck. Some people mentioned that tortoises shred gradually... But I'm not sure how it looks like? I've attached two pictures of her neck here. Hope someone can help...
Thank you guys for the reply! Yea I got the wild flower mix for free when I purchased some other weed seeds from turtle stuff.com, so I have no idea what was in the mix... Maybe I'll just remove them all and start over again by planting something else just to be safe! :p it's a shame though...