My little Hercules had a piece of his bottom beak sticking out last week, of which I clipped off, but the sides are high and he keeps trying to chip them off when he bites down. It’s a “v” shape now on his bottom jaw and I think that he is just trying to “even” it out. I can’t seem to get a...
I was watching my tortoise eat and he seemed to be having a lot of struggles. It looks like he keeps trying to get rid of something on his mouth. When I looked closer, I realized that it is literally a piece of his jaw or a scale that is coming off. It is pretty tight on there still and I’m not...
Just 5 days ago, I put my Sulcata tortoise in his new enclosure in my greenhouse and he hasn’t eaten very much since doing so. Can moving into a new enclosure do this?
Hey! So I just bought this organic potting soil and was wondering if it is safe? It looks like it has peralites in it but it says that everything in it comes from the earth. What do you think?
Hello! So Spring is just around the corner and my greenhouse is beginning to really heat up! I grow several different herbs in it and was contemplating moving my Sulcata tortoise into it once April comes, just during the day. I would predator-proof it, of course, and keep a very close eye on...
So I was perusing the pet store a couple of days ago, buying food for my lizard, and I always look at every single one of the animals that they have there because it entertains me. Haha.
I went to go look at the turtles that are kind of hidden in the back by the fish and I saw a map turtle...
Okay, I am getting so tired of this! My bulbs keep breaking in this way and others! I don’t ever mess with them after I have put them in. The first two times that it happened, it was because of the dome that I had. It could only hold up to 75 watts and I put 100 watts in it. But this time, I put...
Okay, so before I bought Hercules, my Sulcata, I had not been told that he was having issues and not acting like the rest of his batch. They thought that the lady who was helping me had told me, but she didn’t. I took him to the vet twice and on the second visit, they gave me some antibiotics...
Okay, maybe I’m just fretting too much, but does the skin above Hercules eyes look way too light? It’s off and on. Most of the time it looks that way after he gets a soaking, but other times, it just appears. It just seems to change from light to dark and back again, over and over.
For some reason, I look at other young Sulcata’s and to me it seems like their nostrils are bigger than my Hercules. What do you think? Is there anything that I can do about it? Here is a picture.
Okay, so a couple days ago, I changed my sulcata's substrate from Reptisoil to Zoomed's bark stuff. When it was just the former, the humidity levels jumped all over the place (25%-60%) because I would spray it very often to try to keep it moist. He would sneeze, wheeze, and rub his eyes. Ever...
Hercules has been making these weird noises that sound like sneezing, wheezing, tweeting, and a couple other things. Is that normal? Sometimes I think that he is just dry, but it doesn't really fix the problem. Also, he has been kind of losing his energy and doesn't walk as fast. Can anyone help...
Okay, so I have two complaints.
1. Hercules scratches his eyes and sneezes every time that I put him in his bath, is that normal?
2. He has been staying up later into the night and sleeping later into the morning, is it because of the season change?
My Sulcata tortoise has slightly puffy eyes, is sleeping later into the day, I never see him drinking water, and his poop is like a watery blob when it comes out. Other than that, he is mostly active and eats well. The temperature stays around 85-95 degrees and his humidity jumps all over the...
My, I think one-year-old, Sulcata will lay down and/or sleep with all four of his limbs stretched out, is this normal? Everything else is perfectly fine with him. Just wondering?