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Hi Mikeysmama, so sorry to hear of your loss, as others have said it sounds like he was already sick, when you got him, our lightning is still outside, I open his house in the morning & when he’s ready he comes out, he will have to come in soon as it’s starting to get a bit cold here. You will...

I used to panic a lot when lightning would just sleep all the time, I’m getting better, but if it’s too cold or too hot he will just chill & even now I know he is ok but I just have to touch his leg to make sure he is still alive, sounds crazy but I think it’s just being a concerned owner, when...

Hi mikeysmama, Welcome to the TFO, & the fascinating world of Russian tort custodianship, we have had lightning ours for about 3 years, he was a rescue & like most had not had a very good life from what we were told, he had at some time had a broken leg which was not fixed & really struggled to...

Hi Amanda, just seen your original post on tail dragging, we have an adult who we think is at least 20 years old, who is called lightning & he does just the same thing of dragging his tail thru his substrate, it looks quite strange & leaves a distinct line in the substrate in between the lines...

Anybody seen their tortoise do what lightning does when he is on his tortoise table, he will walk around his table with his tail pointing straight down & dragging in the substrate, he leaves a line in the substrate, it looks like a third back leg, it looks so odd, then he will tuck it back up...

Hi KayAlfGeo I’m in Wantage UK, I did not trust the coco coir I found on line did not have additives in it for gardening, it is cheaper on line but I got mine from Pets at Home in blocks, each block is dried out & needs to be mixed with water, I used warm water as the best way to mix this is by...

Hi Hoka’s mum it is a Tile Mate, as I said it is fixed to the top of his shell with a small blob of silicone, it is the one with the replaceable battery, I got mine on amazon for £20 gbp, you should be able to get them in USA, the reason we got it was that last year he escaped from his run & we...

My Russian lightning loves to climb, until recently we had to confine him to quite a small area of our garden, but now he has his onboard tracker we can let him roam free, before this I have seen him standing completely vertical with his back legs straight & also seen him lift himself off the...

Hi Planck's Ambassador, Can I ask where you got your Russian tortoise from? We have a Horsefield (the other name for Russian) which we were given from a rescue centre to adopt, We were told that he was at least 20 years old, so prepare to have yours for a long time. All the advice you have been...

Hi I have a Russian tort that we are not going to hibernate, we need to bring him in as it is now getting too cold for him at night in his outside run, just to say we live in the south of England (uk), we have an indoor table for him which I have just modified to allow us to use coco coir, he...

Hi everyone, I will be bringing my tort in soon as the weather in England has got a bit wet & rainy, it’s not that cold but when he digs down in his outside run I’m afraid the hole will fill with water & he could drown. I’ve just been into our loft(roof storage) & thought I would check which...

Hi Yvonne thanks for the welcome, yes I have been looking at some of them think I might try one of those. The thing is with lightning he is so fast that if you let him out of his run & take your eyes off him for only a short time he vanishes & then we have to spend time looking for him, I meant...

Hi everyone, I came across this forum site while looking for a tracking device for my Russian/Horfields tortoise. His name is Lightning McQueen from the film(named by my grandchildren) when he goes for a walk he is really fast & that’s how we got his name. We got him 2 years ago as a rescue...