Recent content by Erisna

I have a similar but kind of reverse situation: my crested gecko lives on my nightstand, and she’s very much nocturnal, so she won’t come out to eat and do her normal things if it’s bright. I try to only use smaller, dimmer desktop lamps instead of the overhead lights, and if I’m doing something...

Yes, I’m talking about the plastic egg crate, thanks Chubbs! A lot of turtle people use it for basking platforms; one of the ways to do it is make a PVC pipe base and zip tie the egg crate to it. If you google “egg crate turtle platform” you should be able to find a lot of examples to get a...

I’m gonna gently boop this back to the top, if no one has any thoughts on it I guess I get to ~experiment~.

Was feeding Tesla her usual morning soaked herbal hay and zoomed pellets, when I noticed something weird in the soaking dish... A little shelled bonus! (It’s completely dead and empty and I doubt it would’ve done Tesla any harm if she’d eaten it, it just made me lol!)

Yesterday I knocked together an egg crate basking platform for my friend’s slider turtle just for kicks and giggles, and was amazed at how easy it was to make- done in like 20 minutes, in a small apartment with no power tools and minimal mess. So I was wondering, is there any reason I...

I’m not experienced enough to be a speaker, but I’d love to attend!

I picked up some fresh cactus chips at repticon for Tesla and our bearded dragon yesterday, and today I got her to try them for the first time! I had to trick her to get her to eat the first few bites (smushed a tiny bit into a piece of red leaf lettuce that I hand fed her) but then she decided...

Tom, thank you for taking the time to write this out, it’s super in depth and helpful! I think I remember reading that someone converted your monsoon tortoise raising guide into a PDF so it would be more easily shareable and printable- would you mind if I did the same with this one? And maybe...

Wow, those reviews weren’t kidding; this hay smells amazing. I had my roommate smell it before telling her what it was and she thought I’d bought bulk tea!! No comes the fun part... convincing picky reptiles to actually eat the stuff that’s good for them!!

Awesome, thanks y’all! I’ll put in an order, I’m glad to improve all three of their diets. :) Do you feed it soaked or dry to your lizards?

So I was reading the reviews of tortoisesupplies’ herbal tortoise hay, and saw that one review mentioned also feeding this to their bearded dragon and uromastyx. We have both of those animals along with our tortoise at work; has anyone else fed the herbal hay to non-tortoise reptiles and had...

I’ll bring some noodles!

Or if this is like for a music video or something... video tape your tort spontaneously bobbing their head (they all seem to do it on occasion!) and then dub the music over it?

Those are a lovely species of snake! Something about their eyes just cracks me up, idk what it is... I unfortunately lost all my pictures of him, but where I worked in Texas we had a speckled kingsnake that I absolutely adored; he was big and fussy and had a little bit of an attitude, so he...

I’m in the same boat as you, trying to mix up the diet for a Russian while depending mostly on grocery store greens (I live in a heavily landscaped area with very few weeds I trust not to have been fertilized/herbicided/pesticided/peed on by dogs etc.); it helps me personally to have a kind of...