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Such great replies, thank you both! The lamps are adjustable and I am able to lower them. If I lower them to fit snugly inside the plastic cutouts, will it perform more adequately? I am just worried about giving them enough airflow. As for the other critiques, I will make the corresponding changes.

His shell is beautiful !

Hi all! I am expecting to receive a hermann's baby very soon, so I wanted to check over the enclosure I've constructed for him with this forum to see if there are any last minute changes or upgrades I should make. It is a two foot by three foot wooden box insulated with liquid silicon rubber on...

I really do not want to come off as a mean person, but you really need to separate the tortoises and make some serious changes in the way the tortoises are maintained. If you are looking for a tortoise table, I recommend that you build one yourself. Not a lot of sellers offer an enclosure that...

This doesn't give you the excuse to keep the tortoises together. Eventually one will get bullied and die. This is a bit of an anecdote, but I use to keep two baby turtles together, and eventually one bit the other and ripped a patch of scales off. This got infected and he died. It is in your...

Wellington is absolutely correct. Here are some resources to look at. http://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/sticky-hermanns-tortoise-care-sheet-updated.101410/ http://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/why-not-to-keep-2-tortoises-together-a-lesson-learned-the-hard-way.94114 (I do not know the...

I don't see any reason not to keep using the substrate. Although a cheaper route would be organic manure free top soil. I don't know much about pill bugs in tortoise enclosures so I will leave that to someone else to answer.

I'd do the same filtration for turtles. Try getting a small canister filter that is recommended for 3x the water amount you have in your dish; I am pretty sure ZooMed has some. Maybe something like this...

I recommend reptile carpet on top of the wood floor

Why avoid the TurtleSource?

Your tortoise is now a suicide attempt survivor

Thanks

He is beautiful; too bad the pet stores had them though...

I have never tried this but this is just my two cents. Try molding the soaked mazuri pellets in a ball form and then wrap the herbs or salads around the mazuri and see if he will eat it.

Hello everyone, I just a few questions about this (sub)species of turtles. 1. Would a beginner be able to take care of them probably (With experience with aquariums) 2. Is it possible to mix subspecies? 3. Can anyone link me to a caresheet? 4. Is it possible too feed turtles (in general) in...