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I got a baby sulcata (Micah) a month ago and I wanted to share a picture. I had a year and a half (Amara) but she went missing. She didn’t burrow or climb out of her enclosure. She wasn’t sick. I feel horrible because I didn’t put something other than giving her a shade on top. I saw some hawks...

Thank you. They do need the space. They aren’t cheap to take care of either. They get big. Amara is moving her furniture around where she wants it lol. I have four acres so she will have lots of room while she grows

Thank you so much. She loves her cuttlebone. I’m the only one she doesn’t hiss at all the time. She watches me from her hide because she loves the soaks. I’m so proud of her for being a fighter despite her beginning. It’s so funny when I have to go to the doctor and once the emergency room and I...

I haven’t posted in a while. Amara is spending all of her time except rainy days and nights outside now. I got her less than a year ago. More like rescued her from a pet store only feeding her cabbage reptile carpet for a substrate and poor lighting and heat source. She was supposed to be a year...

Just wanted to say thank you and yes she is so great for me. I wanted to update about the cuttlebone. Since I removed it I have had no further problems with Amara passing urate stones. She’s doing great on her natural diet. I have been putting her in her outdoor enclosure a little at a time. She...

I didn’t realize my post went through it said it didn’t go through. The uvb bulb is 75 watts not coiled by zilla. Zoo meds bulbs kept blowing within a week. I keep the soft white uva/uvb all in one bulb in the middle because it’s a four foot long enclosure. Her basking bulb is 75 watt on the...

I grow a sulcata grass mix from a site I got from Drew in this forum. I’m not brand new and Amara has been through a lot before me. Her cool side never goes below 85 or above 86. Her warm side stays at 90 to 91 degrees always. I keep her humidity at 80 percent and sometimes I can get it to 90. I...

Amara is eating great gaining weight but every few days she only eats a little and isn’t herself. I soak daily but I increased it to three times a day when she passed a pea sized urate/stone/ cuttlebone. she rips at her cuttlebone like her best friend. I go through a lot. I’m thinking these are...

I have earth boxes long rectangular with it’s own drainage in case it’s over watered. The winter I might be moved already. If not I’m in luck. I already have the lighting from my greenhouse I had in Nebraska. Along with heat matts heat plant bulbs and nighttime red and blue lights to promote...

I bought sulcata African grass seeds. That’s well and good but I have no idea how to plant it for inside and in large pots. I have never planted regular grass seed. I live in Arkansas in lowland with saturated grounds and winter would destroy it. I’m stupid because I thought planting what Amara...

Amara is a sulcata. I got her last November. I uploaded a picture awhile back. The exotic store she came from told my wife she was a year old. I beg to differ. She was a hatchling who came with issues. They were feeding her nothing but cabbage and her substrate was reptile carpet because they...

I can’t help it. I have to share my excitement. I haven’t gotten Amara to eat hay yet. Today I put grass I cut fresh from the yard. She took right to it. I’m a step closer. I got her in November and grass wasn’t readily available. She was so young even soaking hay she refused. I had to resort to...

Thank you. I keep Amara nice and cozy inside. I know she needs to be what a sulcata is. I’ll wait

uvb bulbs but uva also? I understand the basking. I didn’t realize coiled bulbs were bad but I never use them. Zoo med makes them and the guy at the exotic store tried to sell me one. I do need to find another brand however. I don’t know about anyone else but I’ve been buying mine through zoo...

She recovered very well and faster than I expected. The carrot baths are mostly to keep them eating because the baytril is really hard on the stomach. I was doing those daily for a week the nasal flushes twice a day and the cleaning the nose with alcohol on a q-tip several times a day. Before a...

I was given a baby one year old sulcata as a gift from my wife who purchased it not knowing from safari pets store. She was actually a hatchling or close to it with the umbilica still there. Her enclosure did not have proper lighting heating substrate and food. Her substrate was reptile carpet...

Unfortunately Amara had a bad start. She was a gift from my spouse who didn’t know about pet stores. When I got her the only information I had was what they had given my spouse. I went to the store to ask and see for myself. I don’t want to think about her care before the store. She came down...

I was given a baby sulcata November the 11th of 2018. She weighed 52 grams. I weighed her yesterday and she’s now at 116 grams. How do I know if I am feeding her too much and is she growing too fast? I had to get a bigger log hide and cave because she’s gotten taller. She seems healthy. No...

Storing food lol. I would love to see that. That’s cute and clever. I would love to see the water dish getting moved around. And thanks for sharing koopa digging her pond up. I know what to expect now. Studying about them is one thing. I knew expense, time, learning and love and dedication would...