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Hur? Doesn't look like plastic. More like some intestine

Hi gave my tortoise a warm soak and this was pass out. Long filmy white and there wasn't any poo tough. Thanks.

Let me take some pix and post.

Hi My tortoise poo out white and green color poo. They are Filmy, jelly like white and dark green and along with some veggies matter. Understand normal poo should be dark, black and solid in color. Pls advice. Thanks

Cool. It's interesting that over in states young tortoise yr house in high humidity enclosure. Over in tropics, even Hong Kong. They are house using pellets or hay. As mentioned carrots are given part of diet and not as main.

I'm feeding variety of leafy begginers, romaine lettuce, Kayle, cAtus pad, carrots etc. mixed with Mazuri not eating tough. I've a moist coco coir hide. Greeky go inside and sometimes the dry hideout. Wonder if it's not feeling well or stubborn in new environment to eat;/

Hi all Got a Greek Tortoise for close to a month. Not eating or moving much (hiding inside hideout) after installing Acradia UVB flou light and incadescent basking light. Staying at tropics so temperature is about 30 degree Celsius year round. Substrate is mixed of paper pellets, aspen and...

It's around 3x2 feet.

Acadia replied the T8 with reflector should be 12inches from the top of the tortoise top shell. Any take on this please?

Thanks. Nothing much on the box but this was given on the website.... Will give the reflector a go:)

Hi Got an Acradia 15W, T8 Desert Species tube, Not using any reflection. Would like to seek advise how high should the T8 be mounted from the substrate for it to be effective? Specs as below: Watt: 15W, Length: 18″/450mm, Diameter: T8-26mm, Lumens: 300lm, Temp: 6600K, UVB: 12%, UVA: 30%...

What the view of this bulb ? Incandescent bulb been replace by the energy saving bulb. Heat level lower tough. It's pretty similiar to the coil type ( we have it here as well). Cheers Joe

Thanks Tom. Will head to get Regular wide incandescent build. GE replied. There is white incandescence but is for American market. We follow British standard here :/ so nothing for this part of the world.

Incandescent emit warm, orange tone and not daylight white Colour. Think the blue color is to change the warm color to daylight. Years ago they have blue incandescent bulb, when turn on its daylight, white color.

Hi Tom Been hunting for a daylight, "white" incandescent bulb but no avail. incandescent bulb all seem to be warm. In this part of the works, daylight, white bulb been replace by energy saving bulb (not LED) and heat level is pretty low. Any idea what brand of daylight (white) light you would...