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    Anyone recommend Zoo Med Natural Grassland Tortoise Food

    My Russian gets a tin pie plate of kale, basil, spinach...whatever is in my own salad greens I share with her and about once a week I add about 3 of the chunks of Zoo Med to her tin..along with an inch of water...hoping she’ll get a few of the vitamins that go along with it. She seems to be...
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    Outdoor enclosure

    I know...I have no indoor accommodations and was worried going into last winter. But they both seem to be fine. I really would like to take them to a reptile vet to be checked out. Guessing that’s never happened. They are 25 + years.
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    Outdoor enclosure

    We dug down along the fence line and put 1/4” (heavy) wire (roll was 50’ long by 4’ high) about 8” into the ground. Since we had many bricks, we lined enough up to stretch along the bottom edge of the wire all 50’. Then covered the trench back with soil. Our ground is mostly dirt with plantings...
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    A Russian tortoise walks in our yard...

    Well, we have the two “ladies“ in a 50 ft. x 5’ run in our back yard...since April 2019 (Sonoma County, CA). They were in San Jose all those other years loose in a man’s backyard. I never met him and had no real details about what he supplied for them so I read a bit, supplied an igloo dog house...
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    A Russian tortoise walks in our yard...

    We inherited a Russian T. a year ago and her best friend, an Eastern Box Turtle. They have been together for over 25 years (I was told.) I share our kale, spinach, pineapple sage, and spring mix salad with Svetlana and because, like yours, she doesn’t seem to want to head into the water trays we...
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