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    She ate a piece of wood.

    Mmkay, thank you!
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    She ate a piece of wood.

    The soaks are something I've already been doing- she gets about a half hour in a warm water soak every other day, but I can definitely make it every day. I supplement with calcium powder 2-3 times a week, should I stop doing that if I get the miner-all? She gets supervised outside time about...
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    She ate a piece of wood.

    Hey all, just had a quick question and wanted to run it by someone more experienced than I. My CDT just pooped a piece of wood almost 1" long and 1/3" wide. For reference, her shell size is roughly 8-9" long and she was rescued and registered just last year. She has some shell damage due to...
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    Advice please?

    I knew this day would come but it's coming at the worst possible time xD My rescue CDT, Bogey (aka. "Bug") has outgrown her enclosure. Currently she resides indoors in a large cement mixing tub with a hide box & water bowl. We had a real fiasco with coconut coir earlier this year (we got a...
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    Would you try one egg?

    For some reason I thought this was going to be related to Green Eggs and Ham ... ;)
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    Mazuri?

    Basically, Mazuri is a formulated tortoise food that contains a variety of grasses, minerals, and nutrients, if I'm not mistaken. It's by no means required feeding and while I think it's a great product, I still feed my tort a 50/50 mix of Mazuri and mixed dark greens because there's no...
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    new growth or infection?

    Thanks guys :D
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    new growth or infection?

    lol, okie doke. Thanks :D
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    new growth or infection?

    Sorry, I'm probably being a little paranoid- I've only had Bogey since we rescued her last year so I'm new at this. Is this just a lot of new growth or should I be worried about the pinkness on the edges? She's a CDT, unknown age, about 6 1/2" - 7" long and has some pyramiding ( eems to be...
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    *waves* hello

    Belated, but may the fourth be with you and welcome ;D
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    tortoise rammed...Size does matter ***Graphic Images***

    I was wondering about that too! Good to know it can be used..
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    Eating Rocks

    I've had this happen with my CDT as well, though since I started supplementing her with more calcium it doesn't seem to happen much anymore. I believe it's definitely related to something she was missing in her diet, especially since she has some MBD issues from her previous owner.
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    A couple of ID questions.

    Chris, we've got thousands of those daisies in the canyon in front of our place too, I'm starting to think it's a San Diego thing? I've never seen so many before- but from what I've read, daisies are toxic, or at least non-edible, though I'd have to have somebody verify that.
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    Do you like it when people call your tortoise a turtle?

    Meh, I don't care. Sure, it bugs the nitpicky side of me a little bit, but honestly I just think it's cool that people take an interest at all. I'm glad to explain more about Bogey, how I got her and what I'm doing to help her, but "turtle/tortoise" is not a big deal to me, especially...
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    Any cool tortoise/reptile stuff in Southern California?

    I'd definitely recommend Pet Kingdom, my mom and I stumbled over them a few weeks ago and I can't believe there's such an awesome locally owned pet store not even ten minutes from me xD They had some really lovely Radiateds- I spent a while watching them have dinner, plus they had a bunch of...
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