Hello,
I haven't posted in a very long while, mostly because things have been going well with my tortoise up until recently. The last six months have been rougher though. My tortoise fell off a badly placed rock in her outdoor enclosure years ago, which resulted in a minor spot of damage which...
Hello,
I kind of just needed a place to talk this out, because it scared the bejezzes out of me. Any advise would be helpful as well.
I have had a Russian tortoise for five years. She lives in a tortoise box on the floor with lighting attached to the box. I have NEVER had a problem...
So I want to make sure my 2 year old Russian female gets the proper sort of food but its hard for me to give her a varied enough diet of fresh vegetables. She has to live indoors during the winter, so I bought a turtle supplement(Reptile-Life Tortoise Veggie Plus) to dust on her fresh vegetables...
So I just adopted a female russian tortoise and I love her. However, I dont think her owner was taking proper care of her. She said she gave me all the lights she had and they included a heat lamp and UV lamp, but i dont think either has UVB. So...that in combonation with her shell flaking is...
Hello everyone. My name is Jessica and I am a new tortoise mom! I adopted Delilah last week. She is a 2 year old (or so the old owner said) Russian tortoise. She was quite shy when I first brought her home but she is coming out of her shell (hehe) more every day! I wanted to have a place where I...