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Thank you for the explenations its helped me get my head around it a little, he did slow down his eating alot, through the summer he shifts pretty quick across his table to the food and eats it all up in no time but we noticed a couple of weeks ago he was happy just to have a nibble and go to...

The lamp is a 60w reptile heat lamp and substrate is one half is a soil mix with sand type reptile terrain and the other half is wood chippings. How does hibernation work for them in the wild then because the way im reading things us humans are controlling there hibernation as pets so its not...

Thank you so mich for the quick replies. We are not bothered for hibernating him so will he still live a healthy life by not hibernating him? He has heat lamp on 14 hrs per day but is currently at the other end of his table from the light, should we keep moving him to under the light? Im...

Hello, We have a horsefield tortoise, he seems to be trying to hibernate should we leave him be or keep trying to wake him up? Hes just in the corner of his table and buried in his hay, hes been like this for at least a week now, we arnt experianced with hibernation so dont want to cause him...

I have a russian and hes been crazy last couple of weeks trying to climb his enclosure its good to see him active as hes been tucking himself away since we got him. We get him out and let him run around now. Good to know this is general nature of russians

Aldabra Buddy in his hot tub He is a beauty

Ok thanks youv put ideas into my head

Thank you tom will save that list!

Does anyone have a list of foods for a horsefield tortoise? Or a link to some more information? Thanks

Iv noticed on some of the enclosure pictures that there is obstacles placed in the tortoise boxes, i just wondered if people have had problems with the tortoises trying to climb but falling onto there shells? I am just wary of this now as we had a tunnel for our old tortoise that it used to...

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We are from leeds, england. Yes i was looking theough the russian forums last night and also the enclosure section some great boxes for the tortoises i will attach mine We keep saying 'he' but to tell you the truth we do not know the sex of our tortoise

Hi yvonne. We get him out as he gets into the corners of his box and scrapes away for a bit he seems pretty happy walking around the kitchen, we put him in the bath too with some water. Amazing creatures i would never have thought of having a tortoise

Hello, Signed up the forum to hopefully pick up any tips from experianced tortoise owners. My girlfriend was given a tortoise a year or so ago called flash (lol) unfortunatly when we came home one day we found he had ended up on his back due to a tunnel that was in his box and he had died...