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Sad update, tortilla has passed away :( I am devastated and even tried to take my mind off what happened and went to a party but broke down crying during it because of him :( I loved him so much he was my baby now I will never get to hand feed him again, put his light on every morning, weed...

Sad news, my 9 month old passed away, and I am not sure why :( He was fine this morning and I took him outside so he can go into his outdoor enclosure and went about my day, I come back to take him in and find him hard, unresponsive and cold. He eyes had sunken in so deep, and his body was...

Does the substrate get hot in the enclosure? Or is there maybe a rock under a light that is getting hot to touch?

I've tried cutting up the weeds and sprinkling it on the food but he still won't be interested in it even after nibbling it a few times

I have noticed that my 8 month old angulate will only eat weeds and will not touch any other foods or fruits or veg. I have not had a lot of weeds growing here this season so I have had to give him aloe, sedums, grasses, veg, salad mixes and kale in place but he won't eat it, he will nibble...

I have recorded my tortoises weight up until his current age of 8 months old. I have realised I have not measured him correctly during the last few posts so the weight and actual length was off in the above posts Dates of 2019 6 April - 2.5 cm and 8 grams(hatching weight was low) 11...

yes the larvae was on the outside bin, some had fallen off the top of the bin and were wriggling on the ground

Ive read that some maggots if ingested live can still live in the intestines of humans and animals so that's why I got worried, but I guess in the wild they eat these things all the time. I'll just have to keep an eye on him :)

My hatchling tortoise when in the garden ate a live maggot from a fly larvae and he slurped it up so it is still alive. Can a maggot live in his stomach or will it die? Please help

he doesn't try to eat anything in his cage even the edible plants, his a very picky eater but I have thought about that but I haven't seen him try anything, his actually asleep in the purple thing at the moment, that's become his new favourite sleeping place, the material is stiff and not...

I have a question for anyone who owns an angulate, is 6cm small for a 8 month old angulate? He still seems so small but he eats normally and is on a good varied diet of weeds, succulents, fresh veg and fruit, grasses, salads, fibre herb mix and soaked pellets.

It seems I have not made a update on my tortoise or been on this forum for a while, have been dealing with mental health issues and such. Tortilla has been doing very well, his growing smoothly with no signs of pyramiding. I believe he is about 8 months now, he does seem a bit small still but...

Hello, I have a 6 months old angulate tortoise who has not grown much in the 6 months I've had him. He is about 5.5cm and his weight varies from 30-40grams. He eats a range of flowers, leaves, grasses, dried herb mixes, salads and weeds. He also gets cuttle fish scraped on his food. He gets...

My hatchling recovered without any oral medicine, he only needed nasal drops which I think helped. I kept him very warm and humid and it went away in two weeks. That's not to say not to go to the vet but mine didn't need to. I assume my hatchling got it from cold night temps, 16°C

Prepare for more hatchlings! XD Are u also having this power outage from the storm?

I was wondering if tortoises can eat snail eggs (helix aspera and white Italian snail eggs) as I recently got a cage full of snails and babies and they will have eggs sometime, might keep some but can't keep all. On a snail forum someone said koi fish and tortoises can eat the unwanted eggs, is...

Tortilla is doing great, I've recently made him a big 60×40cm box with different types of weeds and succulents (blue stone crop, 3 different types of sow thistle, cat ear and a bunch of other) I'm growing them in water with bone meal so I'm hoping this keeps then alive. If I grow them in soil...

It's also known as buckram or wild garlic. Its a plant as well

Happy tortoise