Recent content by cdennis1

Here are some better photos. Maybe this will help better determine sex? Thanks for your help.

Thanks everyone. I will try to get a better shot of the tail tomorrow. She/he was being a little shy when I took this pic.

Please help. We're trying to determine the sex of our sulcata. Lazzy is a 5-yr old sulcata. Here's a pic. Thanks!!

One of close friends recently purchased a RT. They provided a burrow, but with some of the recent monsoon rains here in So. Nevada the burrow keeps flooding. Does anyone have any ideas of how to keep the burrow from flooding? They also have a sand box, and since the burrow has been flooding...

RIP. I think you should think about getting a new tort.

Thanks everyone. Living in the hot & dry desert of Las Vegas I always worry about humidity. Lazzy lives outside full time and so he's not living in a controlled environment where humidity levels can be maintained. I soak him everyday for 30 minutes to avoid pyramiding.

The first photo is Lazzy in September 2011 when he was just a couple weeks old. The other photos are current photos of Lazzy one year later - September 2012. He lives in Las Vegas, in our backyard 24/7. Although we'll bring him into an indoor enclosure again once the temps starts dropping in a...

Thank you! I live in Southern Nevada, so it gets pretty hot around here :) I brought Lazzy in for the few months of "winter" where the night time lows can drop to high 30s or low 40s. Other than that he lives outside full time. I'm learning a lot on this site/forum. But I know there's a lot...

This is my first post on this forum. I'm excited to learn from so many tortoise enthusiasts. My wife and kids bought me my Sulcata tortoise hatchling for my birthday last September. I had done a lot of research and had narrowed my wish list to the Sulcata or Leopard. The name of my hatchling...