Was feeding Tesla her usual morning soaked herbal hay and zoomed pellets, when I noticed something weird in the soaking dish...
A little shelled bonus! (It’s completely dead and empty and I doubt it would’ve done Tesla any harm if she’d eaten it, it just made me lol!)
Yesterday I knocked together an egg crate basking platform for my friend’s slider turtle just for kicks and giggles, and was amazed at how easy it was to make- done in like 20 minutes, in a small apartment with no power tools and minimal mess.
So I was wondering, is there any reason I...
I picked up some fresh cactus chips at repticon for Tesla and our bearded dragon yesterday, and today I got her to try them for the first time! I had to trick her to get her to eat the first few bites (smushed a tiny bit into a piece of red leaf lettuce that I hand fed her) but then she decided...
So I was reading the reviews of tortoisesupplies’ herbal tortoise hay, and saw that one review mentioned also feeding this to their bearded dragon and uromastyx. We have both of those animals along with our tortoise at work; has anyone else fed the herbal hay to non-tortoise reptiles and had...
I’ve noticed that lately whenever I feed Tesla whole leaf greens (endive etc.), she almost immediately runs right for the white crunchy part at the base. Today I put what was left of an endive head in with her without breaking off the leaves; she ate the darkest green bits then immediately began...
Hi all, to start off I want to clarify that the tortoise I’m asking about doesn’t technically belong to me, she’s an educational animal from my work that I recently got primary care of. I’m working on improving her care and increasing my knowledge of tortoises.
First off, updates for anyone who...
Hello there, this is my first post on this forum.
My situation with the female Russian tortoise I’m posting about is kind of unusual. She’s not actually mine; she’s part of the reptile collection where I work, where she’s used as an educational animal to teach kids about tortoises and reptile...