Hi everyone!
My girlfriend got a Russian Tortoise about 3 weeks ago and her name is Louise. After a week of being in a glass terrarium (PetSmart. . . more like PetDumb. . .) we made her a nice tortoise table. During this whole time she hadn't been eating and it was concerning us. We left out food all the time for her and varied it every couple of days but she never touched it. Today, 3 weeks after getting her, we got her a big artificial plant to use as a hiding spot, and when she went up to it we thought she might try to eat it! Luckily she didn't, but it got me to thinking - maybe we need to put out a lot of food so she actually think there is a plant there. Well, that's what we did and eat worked! She ate bunches! We were very relieved. I just wanted to post this in case others had the same problem, as I had been looking around the forums and saw nothing like this.
My girlfriend got a Russian Tortoise about 3 weeks ago and her name is Louise. After a week of being in a glass terrarium (PetSmart. . . more like PetDumb. . .) we made her a nice tortoise table. During this whole time she hadn't been eating and it was concerning us. We left out food all the time for her and varied it every couple of days but she never touched it. Today, 3 weeks after getting her, we got her a big artificial plant to use as a hiding spot, and when she went up to it we thought she might try to eat it! Luckily she didn't, but it got me to thinking - maybe we need to put out a lot of food so she actually think there is a plant there. Well, that's what we did and eat worked! She ate bunches! We were very relieved. I just wanted to post this in case others had the same problem, as I had been looking around the forums and saw nothing like this.
