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    Cuttlebone

    Good point about white meaning calcium. I thought it might have a certain smell that people cant detect, but I didnt consider finding bones in the wild. I put it in his pen today and once he saw it, he chewed on it for about 20 minutes, took 4 BIG bites out of it.
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    Cuttlebone

    Hi everyone, I just had a question about giving my RF a cuttlebone to chew on, and I was hoping someone here could help. Im just wondering, how do they know to bite it? I mean, its not like they encounter them in the wild, so is it something they can smell? Not really an important issue, Im...
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    PRICELESS PICS?

    Finally got around to taking some decent pics of my new tort Nero, with alot of helpful guidance from RedfootNERD, here he is. Hope this works, first time using photobucket here.
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    serious life question!!!!!!!!!!!

    23 is young. Im 29 now and 23 feels like over 15 years ago. We all have things that we wished we had done differently, or wondered what things would be like, etc. A few years ago I was with a girl for a few months, girl of my dreams. Well things didnt work out, and 4 months later she was...
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    Gassy Redfoot

    Ill upload some pics tonight when I get home. Theyre all squeakers too, and long, not just a little toot but a full 5-second trumpet blast. I hope nothings wrong with her digestive system, maybe the fact that she isnt eating as much lately has something to do with it.
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    Gassy Redfoot

    Mixture of dandelion, collard greens, hibiscus flowers and leaves, plantain, endive, sometimes mango, papaya, pear, strawberries (a bit of fruit only every few days as a treat) and a few Mazuri pellets mixed in once a week. Also, this is unrelated but I have a feeling that she is old, as in...
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    Gassy Redfoot

    She only gets fruit every 3 days, and only a little (I dont want to get her addicted and have her not eat anything else, waiting for fruit) I was thinking of taking her in for a fecal test. At first it was funny, but then it got more frequent and Im starting to worry.
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    Gassy Redfoot

    Hi all, strange question. Ive noticed lately that my redfoot is VERY gassy. I have her table in my living room, and when im watching TV at night, I can hear her let one rip maybe every 20 minutes. Every night. Her appetite has slowed down a little as well over the past couple weeks, but...
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    Dried flower mix

    There are Hops in it? Im not sure I would feed my tort hops, they are a natural sedative. The stuff in beer that makes you sleepy. [/align] I grow hops and whenever I have trouble sleeping I just make a cup of tea from the dried leaves/buds and within 15 minutes Im sleeping like a log. Id be...
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    Growing weeds indoors

    Most hydro growers who know what they are doing dont use any type of 'soil' anyway. No peat moss, coir or anything you just listed. ESPECIALLY not lyme. Also, the nutrients used in Hydro arent just your garden store fertilizer, miracle-grow, or the like. They are extremely pure compounds...
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    update on my RF - Cheery

    Sorry to hear that. I had a baby Leopard tort last summer who went through the same thing so I know what you went through. When he died I took 2 days off work, it was awful.
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    Nornal tortoise behavoir?

    If you just brought him home today then he is simply adjusting to his new environment. Hes probably just a little nervous about being moved so give him a few days to 'come out'. Just make sure you have all his needs met, in terms of providing proper food, heat, etc. Tortoises dig in to their...
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    Redfoot enclosure plans - please advise

    Having a wall made of plants would not work, no matter what, she would just bulldoze through them and trample everything.
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