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Southern Ontario, Canada, where Spring seems to be in a galaxy far, far away.

There is aluminum foil tape (made for sealing hot and cold duct work) that goes on very smoothly. I've used it on fixtures that didn't have reflectors, but only for low-wattage tube fluorescents (same app that you want to use it for). You can get it at any hardware store. Seems to work.

Yeah - looks great for plants. Might get me one of them...thanks for the link!

What an ADORABLE baby!...the tort's cute, too, LOL.

Just for fun, and going on someone's suggestion here, I bought a hydroponically-grown Boston lettuce*, washed the roots well and planted it in my RT's enclosure. It was a LOT bigger than him, LOL. It took him about 0.0000005 seconds to find it and dive in; Geronimo! (He took the shortest...

Thanks so much for the update - he looks AWESOME! This is a very inspirational story....

I live as far "down" (south) in Ontario as you can get, and this year we have a foot and a half of snow and the temp's been around 16-18F during the day. Usually, our winters aren't like this - we often go without snow for very long periods of time; this is just a really harsh winter this year.

You can easily grow your own fresh carrot tops inside, too, using the end of the carrot that you usually throw away. Stick it in water and it'll sprout shoots pretty quickly. Once some fine roots come out of the carrot part, you can pot them up.

Actually, another name for a Russian tortoise is Horsfield's tortoise, so your nan was right!

She's gorgeous!!!!

Where he has flipped, it looks like he came down off the top of his hide (flower pot). Is there any way he can climb up there? As to a lip on the container (so he can't climb out?), you can use the lid it came with (if it did!) and cut out a large rectangle in the middle, leaving the width of...

I've never seen the greens in stores before, either...I have seen sunflower sprouts, though. I've asked my local Whole Foods if they can get edible flowers in for me (mostly pansies, snapdragons and calendula, I think). They're sold in little flat plastic boxes like herbs. I bought them once a...

Thanks so much for the link! It was an extremely interesting read; I've subscribed to the newsletter.

Also saw it at Freshco yesterday.

You'll have to revive this topic on Valentine's Day!:)