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Great post! Very informative. Thanks for sharing @Tom. Beautiful tortoises you have there, not that we would expect any less!

Thanks for the advice! Much appreciated.

Thanks Tom! That master list is perfect. Much appreciated.

Durham, North Carolina, United States!

Hi all, I'm still having a hard time providing variety of food sources for our hatchling/ young sulcata. Does anyone have advice for places you can purchase good foods online for your sulcata? What do you all feed your hatchling/ young sulcatas? Thanks all!

Great information! I'll be sure to follow your sizing rule for time spent outdoors. Wish us luck. Brenden

You don't know how much I appreciate your advice! Thank you so much. Please bear with my million questions, just dissecting all the information I can find trying to be the best owner I can, it's a bit overwhelming. Apologies in advance. So, my tortoise even as a newborn really only needs 3-5...

And just to be clear, why do you not recommend mercury lights? Also, I thought I saw you mention tube lighting - if I use tube lighting, does that mean my tortoise no longer has a "basking area"? Rather a whole enclosure to get UV from? Thanks!!

Tom! I appreciate everything you do here for the little tortoises of the world and us doing our best for them. I tried to follow your instructions to the T for my lil guy (Sulcata) arriving on Monday. I seemed to have made one critical mistake, how would you suggest quickly rectifying this...