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    Leopard tortoise and 115+ heat

    I purchased a wifi one that will be here in a few days that does temperature and humidity. We have one for a frog of ours and it works well.
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    Leopard tortoise and 115+ heat

    This is only temporary but will be for at least a year till I remove all of the rock and get her other enclosure built along with power added to it since it will be at the back of my yard. The substrate in that picture was before I started soaking it so I have been soaking it in the morning and...
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    Leopard tortoise and 115+ heat

    I have a leopard tortoise that is 10 years old. She's been outside for about a month now. The heat has been around 115 for the last couple of days and will continue till Sunday. She has an elevated wood enclosure with 4" of mulch\coconut\moss mixture. There is a lid on 3\4 of the enclosure...
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    She looks healthy but has big ridges

    Thank you all for your sound advice. I did remove the sand from the enclosure and put in some moss type substrate with the coconut substrate. Both are for reptiles and were from a very knowledgeable herp shop. I am still looking for a rubbermaid big enough to make into a hide for her but so far...
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    She looks healthy but has big ridges

    okay then when she gets big enough I'll have to move her to a part of my yard and try to fence it off. The fencing I used before I came up with the box idea they broke into and carried her out to the middle of the yard and I found her upside down. So this way they can't get to her, in the box.
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    She looks healthy but has big ridges

    Just so you know it does have a lid on half of the enclosure so it's not wide open.
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    She looks healthy but has big ridges

    I know a few people that have very big dogs and the tortoise is the one that chases the dogs around so I'm not worried about that.
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    She looks healthy but has big ridges

    It's actually a mixture of the coconut fiber and a little bit of sand. It's calcium based sand not regular sand. When she gets big enough the ideas to let her be in my backyard but right now she gets bullied too much by my dogs.
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    She looks healthy but has big ridges

    This is her enclosure.
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    She looks healthy but has big ridges

    Honestly I've never been worried about her ridges till I got on here. I really meant her pyramidding not ridges. I'm reading that they feel pyramiding and health are related.
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    She looks healthy but has big ridges

    She has a big water dish she's in quite a bit. I'm in AZ so not sure how I'd bring up her humidity and still have her outdoors. Her enclosure is under a patio and in shade till late afternoon for an hour or 2.
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    She looks healthy but has big ridges

    Her picture. Her head is partially wet that's why she looks odd.
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    She looks healthy but has big ridges

    She's a leopard tortoise. Maybe it just doesn't work on a phone browser because I tried to attach but it won't upload. Her enclosure has changed dramatically. She was in a hundred gallon aquarium and has now been moved outdoors to a 5'x4' raised wooden box. I'm afraid to have her on the ground...
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    She looks healthy but has big ridges

    She's about 10 years old and has been inside till about a month ago. I feed her the tropical grass pellets 3 days then a bowl of mixed greens and back to 2 or 3 days of pellets. She's had a UV light off and on her whole life. I'm just wondering if I should be worried about her ridges. I can't...
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    Leopard Tortoise mouth issue

    I have a tortoise who is around 10 years old. She always makes noises when eating with her beak clicking. Is this normal? I think I forgot to add water to her dish in her enclosure yesterday and it's around 97 fahrenheit in Arizona. This morning her upper beak was actually curled inside her...
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