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...
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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...
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 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...
I was just doing some reading. I feed my Russian Tortoise primarily greens. Green collards, red leaf lettuce, romaine lettuce, etc. I through carrots sometimes in there. He gets about 4 oz in the morning, and then a little more later in the day (about 2 oz of food). I put a little sprinkle of...
I started a thread a few days ago, but I needed some additional answers, so I'm hoping this will get re-boosted.
Anyways, I've maintained good temperature and humidity for my new Russian tortoise. HOWEVER, underneath the log of where he sleeps, the temperature is around 75 but the humidity is...
I just got a Russian tortoise, I keep him indoors. I've maintained the temperatue on the hot end around 95 degrees and humidity is about 30, and the other end ranges from 70 to 75 degrees. He sleeps under a log. But under the log, it's about 70 degrees and the humidity is all the way up to 80...