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I moved my 2 red ear sliders and their 4 goldfish tank mates to an outdoor 150g stock tank.... well... the weather decided to spike up and now 106 deg.... making my poor pond water soooo hot... I have tried shading with big patio umbrellas and a few frozen bottles.... any other tips to keep the...

thank you!! puts my mind at ease... yes.. temporary... I believe they pull the fans out tomorrow... I just wanted to make sure like a 90 temp was okay for a bit. I now turned off the bask light and just the 48" UVA/UVB light on (no heat emitted)... and made sure everything is moist to help...

We had an aquarium bust (110g flooding) and so the flood restoration company has set a bunch of industrial fans and industrial de-humidifiers up... causing the ambient temp in our house to skyrocket.... thus resulting in my animal enclosures to also skyrocket. My 1.5 year old sulcata "Charlie"...

so sorry for your loss..... sending hugs your way!!!

.... sometimes I do wish I could grab a 30 hour day!! Haha

great guideline!!!! an hour per inch... yeah.. Charlie is still on the small side.. even for 1 year old (only around 3" or so)... he will still be treated as a baby :-)..... I am too overprotective to leave him outside unattended ... but thank you for the reminder and words of caution ...

Since my 'Pasture Mix' is super long , I placed Charlie out in the tub for about an hour... he was just munchn away and inspecting all over... I did place him a water dish and there was a completely shaded area if too hot. My question is... since its warming up here and he can go outside more...

So.. do those of you like me... that can't grow anything and have the worst time with plants.... just pick up some pasture mix from www.groworganic.com/premium-horse-pasture-mix-irrigation.html (thank you @Tom for suggestion)... You will feel such satisfaction when you see those little green...

awwww... walter is super cute!!!

I was told on a facebook forum yesterday ... after I was just telling someone what i did to keep my humidity around 80%+ in my young sulcata enclosure... and of course someone chimed in "are you sure you have a sulcata.... you know those are dessert tortoises... right?"..... If it wasn't for...

Thanks tom! Will do... pretty hot and dry these days (typical central CA weather)... so I will def have to be checking often and keep that stuff moist Thank you for the help! I did try reading the "planting guides" that the organic web site provided... made no sense to me... I needed the "cliff...

Okay!! My "pasture seed" arrived from groworganic.com.... I am terrible with plants... my "plan" is to grow the mix in the little kiddie pool (predator cover will keep birds from stealing the seed too ;-) )... okay, so I drilled some drain holes... put some river rocks for drainage.. filled with...

Thanks markw84!! Yeah.. in addition filling with water and getting full tank use.... it also keeps me from having to look at a "hard water" line stain midway up on the glass I also have a little waterfall on the backdrop, but its point of water entrance shifted to right over center brace when I...

and alas..... the silicone re-do on the 120g ... done! .... 3 days later... i only did the 4 laterals, not the bottom.... as i didn't want to touch what didn't seem to have anything wrong (lots of silicone already and a pretty good seal line)..... a pic of their new home attached. Their friends...

hows your turtle doing? hope all is getting better!!!

i read that Ojai project too.... just because i click on website link.. then another.. then another... its never-ending :-)...... sorry but that 'Ojai project' should be removed.... as a newbie i was so confused when i read that and then found this Forum.... yikes!!! hopefully others do what i...

welcome to the wonderful and informative world of TORTOISEFORUM :-)..... all questions welcome and sometimes we all can learn together :-) i Don't have a hatchling... just a very small 1 yr old tort. I wanted to let him get outside too so i just built this simple little outdoor enclosure so he...

I too was worried about the 'wood' enclosure just rotting out or badly warping from all the moisture and humidity..... this is what I did.. maybe might work for you.... I built my enclosure out of the Stranded Plywood (cheaper that regular ply but I love the stranded look :-)).... then for the...

Great information markw84!! Thanks! As the weather warms now... I try to get them some monitored outdoor time.... see the "pool monitor "

any tips to help RES promote a "good" shed... besides "basking"? My smaller turtle doesn't seem to "shed" much... his shell is "dingy" cloudy colored like he needs to get some layers off... the larger female shell seems to shed, as she doesn't have that color and I find larger pieces of shell...