Recent content by SulcataSammy

Wish you were close to me, I can start tons of baby plants and I do for friends. they are easy to grow. They do best in direct sunshine but will do OK in partial sunlight. The more the light, the more babies and denseness of the hanging plants.

Sorry for the spell correct, he is obviously a sulcata. He has always had that light for years. It is about 12" from him, 75W red heat lamp. When I turnhis day lights off he heads right to the spot under the light and spends the night there. Every night for years. Possibly he has gotten bigger...

Sammy, my 18 year old soul Carter has been making these odd noises the past several months. It sounds kind of like a groaning moaning sound. He seems to only do it in the evening when he sits under his red heat lamp. otherwise he is very healthy. Looks very healthy. Eats and drinks well, is...

I agree, that one was funny. The other one was nightmare material for kids!

Personally the commercial where the tortoise jumps up and grabs onto the guys face I found rather creepy and offensive. I know it’s all in fun, but that was not a very nice portrayal of a tortoise. It just wasn’t nice.

Disregard. Sorry. A little while ago I DID got an email, timed at 10:15 this morning. Something must have held it up getting to me in a timely manner. Go figure!

I love your forum and gladly pay the minimal fee. This morning my bank app notified me of a charge to "paypal-exoticpetne". Could find nothing online and called my bank. Was about to set it as fraud and have to have my credit card reissued...a major pain. They suggested I call PayPal. Between...

Here is his whole 10gal tank set up. Water about 4" deep. I have seen him sitting on the brick under the plant sunning, and also hiding under the rock shelf. Not sure which light spectrum to use, (link to light attached) so I use the all on spectrum from 8am-4pm, then change to blue until about...

Update on my little snapper. Its been a month, since my last post. He has woken up, and is very active. He swims around, suns himself on his rock, but still won't touch food. Sometimes I see him watching a guppy or meal worm like he is stalking it, but that's it. He explores and seems very...

Thanks for your help. it’s been about three or four weeks now. He really goes into deep sleeps. Looks like he’s dead and slow to wake up but when I get him up and rinse him he swims around like normal again. I would think if he was sick, he wouldn’t perk back up like that each time. So I will...

I have been on this forum for my Sulcata. Only one profile... I've had a snapper before and successfully kept him 20 years, ending up in a appropriately terraced 55gal tank. Great pet. Been gone for years. Recently I was given a baby snapping turtle in June. I have him in a 10gal tank, with a...

Sammy my 25 pound Sulcata is charging me. He spent all of his 15 years in an enclosure, finally ending up in a fairly large tortoise table, at table height. He is now in his dream home. He is in an insulated enclosure, on the ground, in an area four times bigger than his tortoise table was...

Thanks for checking back. I’ve had a lot of things going on around here, including trying to get a new roof on my house. They’ve been working between cold and precip. I am going to physically have to go to the box stores and garden centers and look at the bags. That’s going to be a Day or two...