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    How does your tortoise sleep?

    My leopard tortoise loves to fall asleep burrowed in his substrate. Sometimes he falls asleep inside of the ceramic pot we got for him. He can be quite hard to find sometimes!
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    New leopard tortoise owners - a few questions/an introduction

    Ah, I just noticed you're from Clovis. I see we're neighbors :p I wasn't able to find it anywhere. I went to two different Petsmarts, Whities, Pet Extreme, Lowes, Orchard hardware... Every single person we've asked has never heard of coconut coir. Had employees think we wanted oil or husk. One...
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    New leopard tortoise owners - a few questions/an introduction

    Just an update: Woke him up this morning and sat him in front of cut up iceberg lettuce and the cut up mixture I originally bought him. And success! I put it out about 30 minutes ago and he's still eating! I admit, he's definitely favoring the iceberg lettuce... but I'm going to pick up some...
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    New leopard tortoise owners - a few questions/an introduction

    Thank you :] We ran around all day trying to find coconut coir... checked pet stores, lowes, etc. I'm not sure anyone carries it here. So we're going to order some online and use that with less sand. I'll get the temps up and cover his box to get the humidity up. May invest in a mister or...
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    New leopard tortoise owners - a few questions/an introduction

    I will get him some spring mix tomorrow and see how that goes. Other than munching on the cypress mulch (which we've already taken out), he just seems completely disinterested in food at this point. He's been extremely active, though. Crawling around and exploring his space all day. Thanks for...
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    New leopard tortoise owners - a few questions/an introduction

    Good because we were worried about his shell from the moment we first saw him in the pet store. Okay, we will buy some lettuce just to wean him off of the pet stores food. As for the temperature, he seems to be warm enough. It is at either 85 or 90 during the day We don't have the red...
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    New leopard tortoise owners - a few questions/an introduction

    Hello everyone, my boyfriend and I recently bought a baby leopard tort form a local pet store. We did a decent amount of research before we bought him, but now that we have him, we have a few more questions. We're housing our tort in a large, shallow "under the bed" storage type rubbermaid...
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