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This is growing in my tortoise enclosure. I’ve never seen anything like it before, any ideas?

Since my tortoise passing last week I decided to get to grips with clearing out the enclosure. My vet said to me to throw stuff away just in case there was something else other than kidney failure that contributed to my tortoises death. What would you guys throw away and what would you keep...

Had some very bad news from my vet. I posted a week ago that my tortoise has become lethargic and hadn’t been eating and also his eyes had shut and become swollen. Got blood test results back today that is showing kidney failure. The uric acid result was so high that they couldn’t even give me...

I just read there was a 6.6 magnitude earthquake in Southern California. Hope everyone is ok

Hi all, I’m dealing with quite a sick tortoise at the moment. He’s on antibiotics orally which is a bit of a nightmare but I’ve managed to get it into him 2 days running. What temperature do I need to keep his table at? I’ve read that they need to be kept warm for the antibiotic to work. He does...

9 weeks old little boy. No name yet I lost my 13 year old dog in April, and I swore I would not get another as it was completely devastating for us all. But here we are!!

Hello, My Russian (18 months) has been off for a few weeks. Not really eating, sleeping a lot. A few days ago I though his eye looked different, it just seemed very very slightly swollen on the lid and it seemed like when he opened his eyes, one took longer to open than the other. There is no...

Evening all, I have a link to a thread from 2013 for Building a night box. It’s got pictures lol I need a visual guide. My question is, what size should I build for a single Russian tortoise? The box in question was 4x2X2 and slept about 3 Leo’s. And what size should I make the doorway...

Hi all, My little Russian has been off for the last few weeks. Quite lethargic, sleeps all day, East’s a little each day. He’s been inside quite a bit more than I would have liked due to weather, but the days that he has gone out he’s been fairly active. I haven’t noticed much poop, but today...

Hi all, I’ve been on this forum for a year now and I’ve learnt soooo much. I recently joined a UK rehoming forum and there are so many tortoises looking for a home it’s unreal. I decided (pending advice) on taking on a group of Russians. I already keep a young Russian and he/she would be kept...

Hi All, I wrote a while back about my Russian who had stopped eating and was losing weight. He had lost 10g in 2 months. He wasn’t big to start with only about 85g. Im pleased to report he’s now eating fine and gained 20g. I did bump my temps up a bit but I don’t think that was it. I did a...

Hi all, I’ve had my Russian since April and he has slowly gained weight since. During the summer he spent most of the day outside and came in at night. Since the weather has been bad he has been inside in a tortoise table. Since he was growing well I stopped weighing him weekly and I started to...

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We live in a messed up world!! https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/news/7308617/woman-tortoise-vagina-dead-genital-infection/amp/

Hi all, My tortoise looks depressed. He’s been doing great eating and growing and has enjoyed a summer outside most days in the heat. He has thrived. Now the weather is not so good he is just sat at the glass looking completely miserable and I find him going into his hide and sleeping a lot...

Hi All I’m such a bad tortoise parent. I love my little guy he’s like one of the family. Today I put him in for his soak inside his enclosure and I went off to do other things and forgot about him. 2 hours later I finally remembered. I ran so fast into the room and he was still sitting there in...

I’m just about to purchase 4 Silkie Bantams. I’m new to chicken keeping. Any tips or tricks I should know about? I have space for 6 chickens in my coop, I was considering 2 rescue battery hens, am I ok to mix species? Or will the bigger hens pick on my Silkies?

I’m not sure if everybody is familiar with Magpie birds... I think you do have them in the US, they are common here in the U.K. For the last 2 days I’ve had one in my garden acting very strange. It is frantically running up and down the garden, running around on the trampoline, running around...

Hi all, I am starting to build my outdoor enclosure for my Russian. He is currently in a kiddie pool but the new enclosure is going to be the permanent one. This is what it currently looks like It measures around 16ft by 8.5ft It’s going to be too large for my Russian at the moment as he...

Isn’t there nothing better than seeing a tortoise basking, legs stretched out, asleep. Looks so relaxing.