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I love Opo’s habitat. That is a great set up!!! What is the orange stuff you feed him, squash??

Thank you for the advice!!!! I will be sure to ditch the soil and get the coco. Dex lives the grassland good. I also give him rose leaves, cactus pad, clover, and put him out in the yard to munch (when it’s warm).

I have learned a lot of things in the 4 hours I have been on this site this morning!!!!! Thank goodness I found this. I am going to have to make him a new enclosure for sure now! Is is in a 48in x 48in table box. He has been in this new box for about a month. He was in a 20 gal tank before...

Could it be from before we got him as a hatchling? Since we've had him he soaks himself several times a day, sometimes he sits in his water for hours. I soak his pellets to expand them and to make sure he is ingesting water, also since we have made his new enclosure we spray down it down every day.

I have had my sulcata for almost 2 years and he fits in my hand...... What am I doing wrong?

Thank you so much for this link! There is a lot of helpful info there. To maintain temp at night we just purchased a red heat lamp. The enclosure ranges temp from 75-90 (directly under the lamp). I will try to regulate that a little better. I do soak Dex daily in warm water, he loves that. The...

Hello, I'm Dexter's mom, Erin. Dexter is almost 2 yrs old. I got him in January of 2018 at the size of a silver dollar, maybe a tad bigger. He was a gift for my daughter for her birthday but I always seem to inherit and care for the animals (we also have a chinchilla and a cat). When we got Dex...