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    Cuttle bones being passed!

    I offer a cuttle bone to our 20lbs female once or twice a week. She chomps them right up. The thing that concerns me is when she poops in her soaking tub we find the broken up cuttle bone. This makes me wonder if the calcium being absorbed or if she is simply passing the cuttle bone. Its not...
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    Please give me an idea of a full size female sulcata.

    This is an amazing group! You guys have helped me re-emerse myself back into the reptile keeping world. So let me thank you all in advance. My wife and I really love our new female Sulcata. We had been considering adding a male. However we have found out that it would not be smart to house them...
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    Adding a male with a female

    I recently obtained a beautiful 18" female she us doing great. However my wife and I didnt want her to be the only shelled family member her entire life. We are considering an 18"-20" male. As far as introduction is there anything I should be aware of in terms of aggression and sleeping space...
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    Timothy pellets and Mazuri?

    Greetings from Indiana! I'm going to vary my Sulcata's diet. However I would like to have these two things as base of the diet. Here is the link to the Timothy pellets has anyone tried these? If so how did it go over with your tortoises? I was thinking of soaking it before offering it with...
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    30 years out of keeping reptiles and saved the store pet!

    My daughter moved off to college and got a job in a petstore where she lives. They had a beautiful female 18" sulcata dropped off at the door one morning. The manager decided to keep her as a store pet. Now a few months later corporate decided its a bad idea to have a "store pet". My wife and...
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