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    Baby Desert Tort

    Thank you. Its hard but I am glad we still have Dozer and will find peace in caring for him
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    Baby Desert Tort

    UNfourtanately our little guy didn't make it. Came out to find him dead yesterday morning. We are heartbroken. We still have our other tort, who's about one year old give or take. This other little guy was only a couple weeks old and hadn't eaten in a week, and come to findout he had had a...
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    Baby Desert Tort

    Lighting and lighting types etc have always been hard for me to find concrete info on.. so this is all very helpful
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    Baby Desert Tort

    I have two zoomed rep lights. One is a Daylight Blue, which is the UV light and it is a screw in not a long tube one. The other is the zoomed reptile basking bulb, also a screw in. I didn't catch the no using Ceramic screw in...I just read that the author of the article uses long tube for UV and...
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    Baby Desert Tort

    Oh my gosh those articles were SO much more informative than anything else I have found online! Thank you!
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    Baby Desert Tort

    He is inside with basking light and UVB Daylight
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    Baby Desert Tort

    OH!! WOW!!! So cool! I did not know that! Thank you SO much!
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    Baby Desert Tort

    We have the torts separate and I will check temp is staying correct. I am soaking the torts daily in warm water( a site I checked said water temp for soaking should be 90 degrees). Do you mean feed baby strained carrots to tort or soak him in them?? Thank you so much! And yes Iwill keep...
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    Baby Desert Tort

    HI everyone. We have two desert tortoises. One we have had for a little over a year and he is doing well. The other we just got a week ago and he is young but I have yet to see him eat. I see him drink and his food is moved around etc but I have not seen him eat with my own eyes. I am hoping he...
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    HELP! We lost our one year old desert tort. Dont want to lose our other tort

    We are heart broken that we lost our North amercan desert tortoise yesterday. He was one year old. He had started slowing down but I thought it was due to cooler weather etc. He still came out to eat and drink just not as active as before. Then yesterday my husband found him dead and...
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    new to tortoises

    I do love google! :) Thank you so much. Sometimes I get a little overwhelmed by google and wonder whats what so its nice to have this forum to get advice from
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    new to tortoises

    Oh good! As long as they are not hurting my babies I am fine with them. I was searching around the forum and noticed someone mentioned rollie pollie bugs to help....do you just grab them from outside or is there somewhere you purchase them? Thank you for getting back to me so quickly!!! :)
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    new to tortoises

    I should correct myself...its an organic raised bed soil that has earthworm castings, bonemeal and alfalfa and kelp meal in it
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    new to tortoises

    Mojave/California Desert tortoise is what we were told
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    new to tortoises

    They are Mojave/California desert tortoises from what I have been told
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    new to tortoises

    My family and I adopted two new baby torties about a year ago. We are in love needless to say. I am getting ready to clean their cage and was wondering about using organic garden soil in their enclosure? I also have noticed teeny tiny little black bugs in the enclosure that seem to climb all...
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