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thank you! i'm going to try rocks and branches and see if maybe he'll go for those :)

i could try the cactus and zucchini but i'm not sure where to find pumpkins in my area this time of year

i don't usually take him to the vet that i did this time because the one we usually go to is about an hour away and i thought for a beak trim i can take him to a more local one but he still decided to not trim it and it cost me $70 so i can't really afford right now to take him to the one that's...

i do use a slate for him to eat off of but it doesn't seem to be grinding it down enough, and i've tried to use cuttlefish before and he just does nothing with it. he does really like hibiscus tho, once it starts growing back here i'll give him the whole branches like you said, i've never done...

i don't chop up his food but the vet was thinking that maybe i'm not incorporating enough harder foods into his diet or putting harder things in his enclosure for him to break it off on, but i'm not sure what to put in there or feed him that's hard enough to wear it down that's safe for him

i just took my tortoise to the vet to have his beak trimmed and the vet didn't really think it was necessary, just that we needed it to grind down/chip off naturally. so i was wondering what tips do you guys have to help keep a hermann's tortoise's beak down? he has a slate that he eats off of...

my tortoise lives indoor all year bc i live in ohio where during the summer it’s not consistently warm enough for him to live outside. i do take him outside whenever it is warm enough so he can get out and graze and get some exercise, so i do recommend doing that whenever it’s warm enough. as...

it was just meant to be then ?

wow he is soooo cute :<3: :<3:

cute! i named mine herman bc i got him at the pet store that i worked at (i know, not the best idea but i loved him) and sometimes we would name the animals and since we had a russian and him at the same time we just called him herman and it stuck :)

this is herman :) he is 467 grams (16.5 ounces) and i love him so much :tort: i'm not sure how old he is unfortunately

I have not experienced this with my tortoise thankfully, but a friend of mine almost has. she has a sulcata with an indoor and outdoor enclosure and she had some neighbors who were showing a lot of interest in him. she went home one day and their gate was open and all of his stuff in his...

That's what I was thinking the first one was from looking online but I'm not confident in my cactus identifying abilities haha thank you!!

Thank you so much for helping me :)