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    Why is my tortoise winking at me.

    I also don't use it because my tortoise likes to eat it
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    Timothy hay

    The leaves of Timothy hay may be ok but the stems and seeds are too hard and sharp. I am not sure if they will injure the tortoise or not
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    I suddenly found one of my eggs hatched. What should I do next?

    sure. Should I get the egg shell which attached to its belly out before soaking it or just soak it with the egg shell? Thanks!
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    I suddenly found one of my eggs hatched. What should I do next?

    Can you also take a look at my latest post and give me some suggestions?
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    I suddenly found one of my eggs hatched. What should I do next?

    Just take a Pic to show current conditions
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    I suddenly found one of my eggs hatched. What should I do next?

    The tortoise finally got out of the shell but its yolk buble still connects (or maybe just sticks) to some part of the shell along with a lot of vermiculite attached to that part. How should I proceed next. I am just worried the yolk bubble may get destroyed if I tried to detach the shell from...
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    I suddenly found one of my eggs hatched. What should I do next?

    I got 5 tortoise eggs from my female Russian this spring and 4 of them look tossed. But today I saw one nose tip coming out of one of the eggs. I let it be there for a few hours and it is still like this. I am just worried that it cannot breadth, so I helped to break the egg shell a little bit...
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    Iceberg Lettuce?

    I provide the lettuce daily to my tortoises. But I will wet them and put a lot of dry food or powder from Kapidolo farm on top of it. I found this is one of the two ways I can make my tortoise to eat dry food from kapidolo farm. The other way is to mix the dry food with commercial tortoise food...
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    How long/old to keep in closed chamber?

    Mine is around 50%-80% humidity. I can see some pyramiding in my tortoises but not very bad. I never tried more than 80%, not sure it will completely avoid pyramiding or not. In some other videos or articles, they also say it may cause pyramiding if the tortoises eat high calories food like...
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    In the reptile show, snakes and lizzard/dragon are still much more popular than tortoises

    I went to the Pacific Northwest reptile show in Puyallap Washington yesterday. I found snakes and lizzard/dragon are still much more popular than tortoises. Two tables were selling leopard tortoises. One table had two redfoots and one Russia and one table had one pancake tortoise. All most all...
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    Large containers recommendation

    Greenhouse is not sealed. Usually just a mental frame with a plastic cover. Is it very hard to stop tortoise going out?
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    Large containers recommendation

    https://www.homedepot.com/p/Organize-it-65-Gal-Holiday-Tree-Storage-Bin-in-Clear-Base-and-Red-Cover-ST53221501/206346063 This is the largest container I can find in the market. But it becomes small when my tortoises grow larger. Any larger container I can buy in the market? Thanks
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    Any breeders will come to this week’s Pacific Northwest Reptile & Exotic Animal Show?

    Any breeders will come to this week’s Pacific Northwest Reptile & Exotic Animal Show? It is in Puyallup, WA which is close to Seattle
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    No offense but your website becomes extremely slow in my cellphone after you changed it several...

    No offense but your website becomes extremely slow in my cellphone after you changed it several times. The old one 1-2 years ago was super fast to load. I am in Seattle and use Xfinity for wifi and AT&T for cellphone data plan
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    Looking for a “stay small” breed tortoise for my children.

    Personally I think Hermann tortoise shell pattern is more beautiful and fancy than Russian and Greek. Western Herman is smaller than eastern herman and it’s shell is usually considered to be more beautiful than eastern Hermann but it is also more expensive.
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    First egg for my Russian

    I got my incubator and put the egg in the incubator. It is already 48 hours. I opened the incubator just now. Is the egg chalked? Western Washington state is always cloudy and rainy these days so I turned on a bulb lamp in my room so the color may be a little yellow. By the way. I don’t see any...
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    First egg for my Russian

    I just ordered the incubator. Before My incubator arrives, how should I store it? Or it doesn’t matter?
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    First egg for my Russian

    I currently bury it into the tortoise coconut soil and use two uva lights above it to keep relative good temperature. Not sure it is ok or not.
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    First egg for my Russian

    Is there a way to find if the egg is fertilized or not? And is there any suggestion to store the egg (like temperature) so it will not get damaged before I get an incubator? And any incubators to recommend? Thanks a lot
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    Can moss be party of the variety diet of a tortoise?

    It looks they like it and try to eat the moss on the wall if I put them in the outside enclosure. But I cannot find any comment about moss in tortoise table database. Anyone has any idea? Thanks!
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