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What do the folks have to say about using decomposed granite or some type of mixture with a Russian indoors? I know plenty of people use it in outdoor enclosures and Chris Leone (I can't figure out how to tag on mobile) does in a mixture for his Egyptians. I've been using a mixture of cypress...

My Russian tends to have varying periods of inactivity and sleeping all day to vigilantly patrolling and pacing his enclosure, without any noticeable difference in his environment. At the moment, he seems to spend 95% of his day occupying one-third of his enclosure, where he has a half-log hide...

Have you ever felt limited in your tortoise-keeping abilities by your age? Well, guess what? You're not alone! To start this off, I feel like my room is my room and I should be allowed to make an enclosure as large as I want in it, as long as it doesn't obstruct access. Let's make this thread...

So this actually isn't for a tortoise enclosure, but it could still apply for one. I'm hoping to make a bioactive terrarium for a salamander. My question is, how can you make leaf litter, moss or fallen branches from outdoors safe for reptiles/amphibians? It will be bioactive, so I guess it...

So I came back from NYC last night to find Rusky's heat lamp dead. He had not eaten and had buried himself deep underground. It was a special reptile Exo Terra one, and now I realize that I only need a regular incandescent flood. This is the second time my heat lamp has gone in two months. What...

I'm a curious person, and I love to learn about tortoises. Does anyone know how well can they see in the dark? Are any species active during the night? I know that some box turtles are active before dawn. I assume indoors, some tortoises get caught out when the lights turn off suddenly, although...

So my Russian refuses to have the ZooMed Grassland pellets. I have heard that this is a fairly common phenomenon. It makes it easier for me if I just feed him pellets a couple of days a week. How should I persuade him to have it? I moisten the pellets and mix them in with greens, but he will...

So today Rusky decided he was going to try and eat a rock. It's about half his size, but he kept smelling it and opening his jaws and trying to eat it. I sprinkle calcium on his food once in a while and he has a cuttlebone which he took a small bite from about a week ago. What is he up to?

I'm about to add a square to my rectangular RT enclosure to make an L shape. Do I need another UVB strip light for that portion as well, or can I just use a regular strip light to keep it bright?

So my Russian likes to dig... a LOT! When I first built this table, I lined it with garbage bags, but now this is the second time that his claws have shredded it up. Does anyone have some good ideas for an excavator-proof waterproof tortoise enclosure liner?

This is an update from my last post: https://tortoiseforum.org/threads/tortoise-might-be-sick-or-trying-to-hibernate.162804/ Rusky is now eating just fine, and has been for a couple of weeks. However, he has gone back to his lazy behavior which is honestly how he's been since I first got him. I...

Rusky is a young tortoise, living in a temporary 1 1/2 x 3 ft tank. I got him about a month ago. He was not eating much, but he ate every day. However, he has not eaten for three days now, and has been sleeping almost nonstop, burrowing in different areas around his enclosure. I think he may be...