Recent content by tczar

Actually north texas, dallas area.

Moving to central Texas soon where they have fire ants. Anyone have problems with them and adult sulcatas?

They love the flowers from a chitalpa tree. It's a crossbreed between a catalpa and a desert willow. Very drought resilient, lots of flowers and fast grower.

good points, I agree with both

Did anyone see the 60 minutes show a couple of weeks ago about the illegal trade of tortoises. It featured a wild plowshare [probably not right spelling] that was beautiful, almost bell shaped, from Madagascar. Also interviewed Eric Good, who is a tortoise conservator in California. Really good...

RE: 49ers' Colin Kaepernick Has Gigantic Tortoise Oh Geez, I guess I will root for niners now. My cowboys are already out.:cool:

no, they don't. You have to keep them warm in an enclosure if outside.

It was 33 degrees, the cold does not seem to bother him as long as he finds a sunny spot. It was cloudy that day so he was out just long enough to eat, won't miss a meal. Thats tomato on his face.

Mine summers in a deep, deep, burrow. i know there's not much ventilation in there.

Silo came out of his shed to frolick in the snow yesterday.

silo has burrowed for the last three summers, right now in the heat of summer she only comes out between 6-7 pm and eats for half a hour to a hour. Seems content, when she first starts coming out, she will sit in the opening 'her porch" for up to thirty minutes. She cleans out the opening...

She came out, no sign of "Wilson" I guess she has room for him.

One of the kids volleyballs went down silos burrow, took the turn and is gone, hopefully he can play soccer and push it out. He comes out to graze about 8 everynight :(

I think his size is right on track, the only humidity mine got was soaking 4 or 5 times a week, and i live in a very dry place. I don't think humidity is the problem, watersoaks and sunsoaks.

Silo has a summer home [burrow], if she lays a clutch of eggs will she do it in her burrow or build a seperate nest ? Also, how long after being fertilized will she lay them ?