Recent content by Sineadsq

Hi all Just want to say a massive thank you for your help on a previous thread. Our little sammy is doing soo much better after a few changes and actually come out on his own to bask and eat and pooing regularly! Such a relief. I’m trying to be better at picking weeds and we have alot in our...

Thanks for your advise, dandelion leaves is the thing we offer the most but he barley touches them. He eats lettuce over anything but I know this isn’t a good diet. I will try again tomorrow cutting them up smaller and see what happens.

Temperature under heat is about 95 and rest of the table about 70-75. He will only sit under his lamp for a few minutes before he walks back off to his cold end and burrows himself under again.

Thank you. I’m going to try and get a vet appointment to put my mind at rest too. Even if it’s just an X-ray to confirm not constipated or impacted. I had decided not to hibernate and apart from keeping the ambient room temperature higher I wasn’t aware I needed to do more. I will certainly...

Thanks for your replies he’s only just 1 year and the pet store said he was too small for brumation? He is only a little thing. I do know what you mean if something come out but these were soo so small I had dig up the entire substrate to find it. And even that was from at least 2 weeks ago...

Hi I’ve been reading up loads on here over the last week and I fear we may have an impacted tortoise 🙁 he hasn’t been eating well for weeks and I haven’t seen anything other than tiny tiny poos in his cage and even that I haven’t seen in ages. I have another thread going about this and does...

Just to update too this has been changed to coco coir topped with orchid bark. Previously we had been advised to use those horrible dry pellet type things. So I changed this last week on toms advise.

It’s an Arcadia D3 bulb, this is our set up at the moment. (I know the water bowl is too small it’s temporary, my little girl broke the terracotta one we had) he has a soak every day for about 15 minutes in a separate bath too.

I read between 9-12inch at 12 inches it doesn’t get warm enough so I lowered it? In regards to the mounting I don’t really know how else I would mount? Any set up I’ve ever seen is with the light hanging from the top of the viv or table? Our bracket it’s attached to the wall with the light...

Thank you for sending this over, I think on this occasion I will get it from the pet store then I can spend some time looking around for it possibly elsewhere. He is currently in a tortoise table. However he will have a bigger outdoor enclosure in the summer. It’s not a coil type bulb. We have...

Yes they seem to all have something mixed in with them here. For now I will get the stuff from the pet store and then I can see if it’s available elsewhere at a better price. Thanks again

Thank you I did assume this was the case and left it in the shop. It does seem as though orchid bark isn’t as easy to get here in the UK in the garden stores

I will send some photos of everything later thanks again

Hi. Thank you so much for all your replies the first thing I’m going to is change the substrate, I’ve come to my local garden centre to get orchid bark and they only orchid compost? Is this ok? It would seem as though this may have some sort of food in it too?

Hi everyone We got a baby horsfield tortoise in June, all was well with him and eating just fine until about 6-8 weeks ago. I noticed one of his eyes looked a little different. I kept an eye on it for a few days and after doing some research realised that it was almost definitely his third...