I've seen worse of course. I would never try to intentionally harm him. I am improving his diet. Like I said, he's active. His shell is nice, he poops good. I honestly didn't realize his face was so different until I found the old picture.
As long as I know it won't like "kill" him, I'm ok. I...
Ok, so on the left is a more recent picture of him. On the right is a picture of him I first got him years ago. I mean, obviously he looks a little different but it's not like something absolutely terrible. I just need some feedback. I'm obviously going to file his beak, but otherwise he looks...
It's not deformed. It's the lighting haha its just a normal little beak, trust me. If it was deformed, I'd be taking him to the vet. I'll get him off the pellets. And I'll look more into trimming for sure
I found this picture on here, this isn't my guy. The other two pictures above are my little baby. It's NOWHERE near this long. I just need to know if I need to change anything to prevent it getting longer.
So I give my russian tortoise, zilla liquid calcium, once a week. He usually eats rep-cal maintenance formula tortoise food, the colorful pellets. I try to mix them with greens but when I do, he eats around the lettuce and only will eat the pellets. I recently posted a picture somewhere and...
I've tried taking a picture but they're so small it's impossible to see them... they're like the size of a tip of a pen, honestly. I just buy the coco fiber from Petco. Should I try maybe something else? He just loves to dig and get dirty though haha I'm scared changing something will make him...
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So recently I discovered little tiny black bugs in my tortoises enclosure. It's mostly around his water bowl area or if we spray it and we don't lift up the rocks enough, they'll come around. They don't seem to be on the dryer end of the enclosure; just the water area. Should I be...
How can you tell if your Russian tortoise is gaining weight? I'm not really having this problem right now. But he loves his food Haha I was feeding him twice a day. But I stopped and only feed him once. Because a lot of the time he wouldn't even touch the second helping later that day. I don't...
Another question. He's been peeling. Little patches since I got him which I know is normal. But the last week or two, behind his neck, from.nearly Arm to the other arm is a big hunk of skin shedding off. It's just kinda hanging there. And underneath Jang infected or discolored or anything. I...
Just so I'm keeping my little guy safe. I often hear Russian tortoises love dandelions. But I'm not sure I understand. Can you just go out in the yard and pick a dandelion, rinse it off and give it to him? Or do you buy something called dandelion greens? Thanks!
I use a UVB heat light in that flukers clasp. And I also have a flourescent light . [hr]
12 hrs light. 12 hrs darkness. Daytime with light one end about 70 to 75 degrees and the other end about 80 to 85 with basking spot at about 95. [hr]
Night time it's at 60 degrees
I was hoping someone can help me. Ever since I got my Russian tortoise, his shell seems to be..... Dry. I'm not sure of terms to use, but, the outer sections of the sections on his shell seem to be flaky and cracky around the edges. And it's worrying me. I keep his substrate moist, humidity...