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I heard that sulcata's must have protein in their diet. is this true and if so, how do i administer protein to my tort?

watery eyes? what does it mean? is kale bad?

I just found this turtle in my back yard and I have no Idea how to care for it. It seems to be only a few weeks old and severely disformed and malnuritied. What do I feed it and what kind of a tank set up do you recomend? Please help, I want this little guy to survive :( He weighs 8.7 grams

whole white mushrooms i bought them from our local grocer. can my sulcata eat them? i know that he can but is it good for him to eat?

there is some sort of moss growing on my grass that i am growing inside. i don't know what it is but every time i water it, the stupid moss just comes back. what is it and should i be worried?

I have been very concerned with my tortoise. He has been peeing a weird yellowy liquid. what could it be? i feed him various greens with hay on top and a calcium supplement. He has grass growing in his enclosure and loves to munch on it. here's some picks of what i have been seeing.

How do I increase the humidity in my sulcata's tank?

I see evidence of training on the following video but I was wondering if anybody else has hands on experience of this :cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTYl_Vkgv5c

slowly putting his tank together, been rather busy these days as spring is approaching. i am getting another uvb fixture and hopefully a ceramic light fixture but kame seems to like it. I am also getting more rocks so that he can stop eating dirt. I need another rock for the right hand side of...

This is the start of my new enclosure for my baby sulcata. I have two heat lamps and a rock underneath one of them for extra warmth. where the bundle of t-shirts are is where the grass will be placed and i will plant alot of flowers in there come spring time. His favorite hide is the small cork...

i got licorice mulch and play sand today for my new enclosure. is that okay? also, is it necessary to line the bottom of the table with plastic?

i saw someone else do this in another thread. if you could take pictures of yourself next to your sully's for size comparison, it would be really helpful! thanks!

i was looking to join a tortoise club on the east coast. does anybody know of any?

I am a little concerned with the coloration of my Sully's shell. It has been getting darker by the minute. Is it caused by calcium intake or his uvb? I was reading about uvb's that cause reptiles to not open their eyes. I took my tort out and was really really concerned with what I saw. He kept...

I planted a mix of grasses for my new enclosure but was wondering if I have to use a certain kind of dirt for him to be able to graze on it?

If I were to breed my tortoise, who's shell is slightly pyramiding...Would his/her babies have pyramided shells too? Or other related health problems??

i am building a 4x4foot wooden indoor enclosure. I have been reading up on this forum but can't seem to find any definite answers on a safe substrate. My tortoise eats everything so I need something that is not easy to digest and that is not foul smelling. Preferably cheap but, anything for my...