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I wanted to provide you with an update based on how much help I received from this group. I didn't do the biopsy and went ahead with the care recommendations I received here. I waited a couple of weeks and monitored her. I made an appointment with a specialist exotic practice that...
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I'm ReflectedGray. I live in the California Bay Area. I have a Russian tortoise named Delilah. Delilah is approximately 13 - 15 years old, though I am unsure as she was a rescue. I've had Delilah for most of her life, and she is my only tortoise. I love tortoises generally and would...
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I'll grab a picture of the bulb when I get back home. I'm pretty positive I got the wrong thing now. I'm in California (bay area). When I went into home depot they literally had 2 incandescent bulbs that were even somewhat within the wattage range. I think the one I got is actually made...
Hi Tom (and others who care to chime in, of course),
I have a follow up question. I went to the hardware store and picked up a 65 watt flood light. I installed it, and tried lowering it closer to create the right temperature hot spot. It only got to 77 degrees about a foot from her tank? That...
Thanks for the advice. The write up was helpful. I can change her substrate out immediately indoor. Its good timing, as I was going to replace it this week. The feed advice I can do as well with a combination of upping my grocery store game and looking into growing some stuff. Unfortunately I...
I posted my last reply before seeing this. Here are the responses:
Substrate: Inside, I use a 50/50 mix of dirt and sand with some coconut fiber to create more depth on the cool side. Outside she's on coconut fiber.
Temperature: INSIDE- Prior to the vet's concerns about heat, I used a mercury...
Gosh. Okay. I need to think all this through. Thank you so much for the fast replies.
I want to add that my vet didn’t use the word shell rot. I think that may have been my mischaracterization. The first vet thought it could be 1) heat damage, 2) a “shell fungal infection”.
When we spoke about...
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Thanks everyone for your responses. Its really nice just to have other people willing to think about this with me. I should have included more background info about Delilah in my last post. She is estimated to be about 14 years old. I got her as a rescue at about a yearish old from...
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I haven't posted in a very long while, mostly because things have been going well with my tortoise up until recently. The last six months have been rougher though. My tortoise fell off a badly placed rock in her outdoor enclosure years ago, which resulted in a minor spot of damage which...
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I kind of just needed a place to talk this out, because it scared the bejezzes out of me. Any advise would be helpful as well.
I have had a Russian tortoise for five years. She lives in a tortoise box on the floor with lighting attached to the box. I have NEVER had a problem...
well the veggie plus stuff isnt actually the food, its basically supposed to just be a calcium supplement i think. The other stuff has oat hay, timothy hay, soybean hulls, alfalfa meat, wheat ect.
So I want to make sure my 2 year old Russian female gets the proper sort of food but its hard for me to give her a varied enough diet of fresh vegetables. She has to live indoors during the winter, so I bought a turtle supplement(Reptile-Life Tortoise Veggie Plus) to dust on her fresh vegetables...
So I just adopted a female russian tortoise and I love her. However, I dont think her owner was taking proper care of her. She said she gave me all the lights she had and they included a heat lamp and UV lamp, but i dont think either has UVB. So...that in combonation with her shell flaking is...
Hello everyone. My name is Jessica and I am a new tortoise mom! I adopted Delilah last week. She is a 2 year old (or so the old owner said) Russian tortoise. She was quite shy when I first brought her home but she is coming out of her shell (hehe) more every day! I wanted to have a place where I...