Hi all. I have been a tortoise owner now for about 5 months and my Russian Bananas seems to be doing very well. He has a good routine, eats plenty, and here in the northeast, i just got him a nice outdoor enclosure (though so far he seems slow to adjust to the new environment). So, all seems...
Hey folks,
I saw the pyramiding post on the week in review, and now I am totally freaked out.
Bananas gets plenty of water and soaks often, but I don't really track humidity. I think he also eats lots of greens that have pretty good calcium levels.
Here are a couple of pictures. This is...
Hi - I have had my Russian now for about 3 or 4 months and he seems like a happy little guy; has a regular routine and eats well. Occasionally he scratches away at the sides of his enclosure, but that seem pretty common from what I have read. To this point, he has been exclusively inside...
Hi all. We have had my Russian (Bananas) now for about a month, and things are going well, I think, and I am starting to get attached to "my son's" tortoise.
For the most part, our guy starts to stir in the am around 7-8am, shortly after i put out his food, he heads over to eat, he eats...
Hi – My name is Jim and my family just got a 1 year old Russian tort from a local pet shop. Based on what I am reading in these posts, vs what I was told by the pet shop, I am afraid I am following some bad advice.
Currently we have the tort in a 40 gallon fish tank but are in the process of...