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    I'd like to be enlightened about lighting

    I believe they’re meant to both be on for 12 to 14 hours a day. And they need complete darkness at night. :)
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    Tortoise threw up and very sleepy...advice please

    Alfie seemed to perk up a bit after the long car journey, the vet gave him a general check over and an antibiotic injection (naxcel?) which lasts a week, plus reptoboost to put in his baths and said to bring him back in a week if he doesn't get any better. Also got a pot for a fecal sample to...
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    Tortoise threw up and very sleepy...advice please

    I've got an appointment for later this afternoon, it's not with Mark Rowlands but another vet who also keeps tortoises
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    Tortoise threw up and very sleepy...advice please

    I phoned the breeder that I got him from to see if he had any suggestions or illness in the rest of Alfie's batch but once ruling out he most likely hadn't eaten anything poisonous all he suggested was to keep an eye on him for a few days and let him know how it goes. He said the vet wouldn't...
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    Tortoise threw up and very sleepy...advice please

    I'm near Cranbrook, I believe the Trinity in Maidstone is probably my closest. Any ideas what could be wrong?
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    Tortoise threw up and very sleepy...advice please

    I'm concerned about my Hermanns tortoise Alfie, he is about 1 year old.... Yesterday evening I gave him a bath and he pooed but some of it was runny (it's usually solid) after bath time Alfie barely moved from under his UVB lamp, seeming lethargic. Then last night at about 10pm when he is...
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    First strawberry!

    Alfie enjoyed his first ever piece of strawberry, I think he looks very excited in the photo even after dragging it through the substrate...
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    Newbie advice please!

    @JoesMum why does an MVB need a ceramic lamp holder?
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    Advice on pyramiding

    Hi, I have made a few changed since this post, more plants, a small humid hide with sphagnum moss inside but Alfie isn't keen on this, the sides are now double the height but does anyone have any genius ideas on how to cover it to increase humidity. I don't want to buy a vivarium because it...
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    Is this basking/uv light suitable?

    So would you recommend buying one now and having it as an extra to the natural sunlight or wait until later on in the year when it gets too cold to put the tortoise outside and buy one then? Thanks :) EmmaG
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    Is this basking/uv light suitable?

    Thank you :) it is necessary to have a light that provides UVB? I live in the UK and have an outdoor enclosure for my tortoise which at the moment it goes in 3 to 4 days a week for 5-6 hours each time because the weathers not great so I only put the tortoise out on the sunny warm days
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    Is this basking/uv light suitable?

    Hi, I'm looking to get this light for my 10 month old Hermanns tortoise: http://www.onlinereptileshop.co.uk/reptile-products/Mercury-Vapour/Arcadia-D3-Uv-Basking-Lamp-80w-Mini-6601.html#sthash.7sA1qvIj.cCsEVn57.dpbs In case the link doesn't work it's an Arcadia D3 UV Basking Lamp 80w. Do you...
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    Advice on pyramiding

    I have a humid hide in the outdoor enclosure, I could make one for the tortoise table as well. I thought vivariums were a big no for tortoises because they get too hot? #confused
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    Advice on pyramiding

    Thankyou, what plants would you recommend? I could get some weed mix seed but that would take a while to grow
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    Advice on pyramiding

    Here's the indoor enclosure, sorry it's not very good quality
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