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    Delivering Tortoises via FedEx

    My last "shipped live" was a Nicaraguan Peacock slider. I was waiting on my porch watching my kids play when the truck stopped. The driver got out swinging the box with lots of very bright stickers and arrows. I stopped him and took the box informing him what was in the box and making him wait...
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    Hello! Got my first baby tort!

    Fogger machines are better for lizards and frogs. When I had trouble keeping the habitat up to temp and humidity I suspended a clear table cloth cover over the lamps and habitat as a whole tent, now I have 2 greenhouse covers inside a table the size of a full bed. A lot of baby keepers just...
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    Hello! Got my first baby tort!

    Greetings and Welcome! Lovely ltl one. I have 2RF here in NW Pa. They came to me at 2 and 5 yrs old with definite pyramiding due to not having the proper humidity when they were babies, almost a decade ago. The most often given and most needful help to follow is solid humidity 80% or better...
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    Outdoor, recommendations

    For hides, I go to our local Ollie's store and buy the huge terracotta pots for a steal and cut them in half.
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    Baby turtles not wanting to eat

    When my RES were hatch-lings and I had them in a 10 gal. long tank, I put a 0.3 gal critter carrier as a feeding tank in a corner of the 10 gal. tank on the side of their floating dock that I kept their food in, the lip was marginally shorter than the water line. When one of the RES dropped in...
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    overstocked inventory thread for anybody to use...

    Greetings All, I started a thread about the extra food stuffs I have -My Food Train (of thought), but it did not seem to go anywhere, but here is my thought: - I am on a limited but stable budget and can't mail for free, but I have some extra frozen dried food.... I also have a significant...
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    Turtle sandbox turned tortoise enclosure!

    Not the first time kiddie equipment has been tortoise purposed, we had a pool that got a huge crack through the bottom, perfect drainage and wall height for an outdoor pen when our Red Foots were babies, we replanted it with garden veggies, rye grass, and weeds for several yrs.
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    Turtle sandbox turned tortoise enclosure!

    Brilliant and yet Punny!
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    My Food Train (of thought)

    @Yvonne G , Do you think this might get more traction reposted in the food/feeding section?
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    My Food Train (of thought)

    Greetings All! This will probably be a little rambling, and hit a few points out of order.... It is not the thought of a business, or charity, but timing and need. I have seen a few post now where we are all enjoying (or Not) more time home with our little darlings. Many of us with a drop in...
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    Please can someone help! ASAP (ridge on plastron)

    Ok, so I looked up what substrata you said you have... Tortoise Terrain by Pets at home. it is not rabbit alfalfa pellets, or sand, it just needs a little help. Start with about a pint of good old H2O.... soak that soil (it might need more), then get some coco coir to mix with it you are...
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    Well we need food

    My current "indoor box" for my 2 RF(M,F 10yrs) is the size of a queen bed with lots of things for them to get lost in between and is heavily planted. When their last enclosure had a major blowout we separated them and they both stopped eating... We built the new habitat with the availability to...
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    Where can i get a tortoise from a cheap reliable source

    All of the above being real aside... Welcome to our Forum! We love to help out prospective tortoise parents, save those pennies, buy the right stuff as you go along show us what you got and ask lots of questions, educate yourself for who you want to nurture and we will continue to back you...
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    Are wooden enclosures for indoors better than other materials for baby tortoises?

    My Redfoot tortoise live in a box the built on a queen size mobile bed frame (500lb capacity). Inside the 20 inch walls (FlexSeal treated) is a cement tub size pond with filtering fountain with 2 way ramp access, and 6 inch deep substrata of coco coir, and cypress mulch - plants are in terra...
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