Hello Everyone!
My name is Gina and I'm new to the forum and the wonderful world of torts. My Scooter is a Sulcata hatchling and I've had him for about 5 weeks. He was given to me when he was just a few days old. I've been reading up and learning so much from you all and wanted to thank you for being so great! With all the conflicting information out there, I would truly be lost without you. I know I've got a long way to go and much to learn, but thanks to you all I've been able to start him out right. I do have him in a 20 gallon tank for now, but have plans to make him a much larger enclosure very soon. I'm using coco coir as his substrate and he eats a mixture of romaine (I'm "weeding" it out little by little) collard greens, mustard greens, Zoomed Grassland Tortoise Food, bok choy, grass and weeds from my yard and rose petals once in a while. I'll be introducing kale to him this week also. I add a little sprinkle of calcium to his food twice a week and soak him every morning before breakfast for 20 minutes or so. The ambient temperature in his tank is always in the 80's and sometimes into the 90's and the humidity fluctuates from the high 70's to 80's. It's hard to create a micro climate with a cool side and warm side in his tank which is one reason why I want to get him into a new enclosure ASAP. I use a CHE for heat at night and he has a light for basking/heat during the day. For UV I get him outside just about every afternoon for 30 minutes to an hour. He has a terra cotta water dish and a humid hide which is a plant pot tipped on it's side and buried in the substrate.
I've attached a photo of him chowing down on a rose petal. Thank you all again!
My name is Gina and I'm new to the forum and the wonderful world of torts. My Scooter is a Sulcata hatchling and I've had him for about 5 weeks. He was given to me when he was just a few days old. I've been reading up and learning so much from you all and wanted to thank you for being so great! With all the conflicting information out there, I would truly be lost without you. I know I've got a long way to go and much to learn, but thanks to you all I've been able to start him out right. I do have him in a 20 gallon tank for now, but have plans to make him a much larger enclosure very soon. I'm using coco coir as his substrate and he eats a mixture of romaine (I'm "weeding" it out little by little) collard greens, mustard greens, Zoomed Grassland Tortoise Food, bok choy, grass and weeds from my yard and rose petals once in a while. I'll be introducing kale to him this week also. I add a little sprinkle of calcium to his food twice a week and soak him every morning before breakfast for 20 minutes or so. The ambient temperature in his tank is always in the 80's and sometimes into the 90's and the humidity fluctuates from the high 70's to 80's. It's hard to create a micro climate with a cool side and warm side in his tank which is one reason why I want to get him into a new enclosure ASAP. I use a CHE for heat at night and he has a light for basking/heat during the day. For UV I get him outside just about every afternoon for 30 minutes to an hour. He has a terra cotta water dish and a humid hide which is a plant pot tipped on it's side and buried in the substrate.
I've attached a photo of him chowing down on a rose petal. Thank you all again!
