Haha, glad it's not just our Tort that has a Pak Choi addiction. We call it Crack Choi. He'll leave everything else and go straight for it so we have had to strictly ration it.
Thankfully he'll pretty much eat anything we put in front of him (as long as it's fresh - He won't touch dried...
Thanks for the info guys.
We've seen a lot more of him these last 3 days. A bit strange that he just "stopped" for 3 or 4 days though.
I'm wondering if it is temperature related. It was pretty chilly last week but has become a lot milder these last couple of days. Though we have a thermostat...
A bit of a query I thought I'd stick in here rather than start a new thread...
After a few weeks of seemingly settling into a relatively active routine our little darling has suddenly slowed down considerably. In the last week he has barely moved. He shifts around a bit, has a bit of a scratch...
Thought I'd do a quick update for those that are interested.
Changes made:
CHE added. We have this running off a thermostat to keep him warm at night. He seems to appreciate the day/night cycle this gives.
Substrate changed (A mixture of rough and fine orchid bark)
Live plants added (bought...
Thanks for the replies and great info.
We have a T5 UV tube light in there. Obviously that goes off at night.
The heat lamp says it’s a spot lamp but the light seems quite diffuse?
We have a IR thermometer but that’s a good shout on the height of the thermometers.
He does seem to be spending...
We have just been looking at CHE's and obviously we would want to run it off a thermostat but we already have the heatlamp running off a thermostat. I was wondering if just buying a CHE "bulb" and swapping them out at bedtime would be feasible? Or do we need to 2 separate setups for the 2 heat...
This is the current setup.
The heatlamp is on a thermostat with the sensor about half way down the enclosure. It is set to about 27C/80F. This gives a readout of 25C/77F at the cold end and around 32C/90F at the hot end.
He spends 22 hours a day under the warm hide, buried in the substrate. He...
We leave the heatlamp on all the time but we turn off the UV light. I didn't want to be turning off the heat lamp as we live in quite a cold, draughty house and didn't want the temps getting too low overnight.
Thanks for the replies all. Already been hoovering up all the info on here which has been great. I'll get up a photo of our setup shortly.
Good news is that we've seen more of the little guy though he still seems very wary of us. Any kind of movement outside his vivarium and he runs back his...
Hi All, brand new member from the UK here. Got our first tortoise yesterday (Horsefield/Russian) and so naturally have been doing nothing but googling tortoise related stuff ever since! Seemed to be lots of good info here so naturally decided to join up.
After getting him home yesterday he...