So I know that rose hips are safe for torts to eat...which is great because we rose bushes growing wild all over our place and the hips are nice and ruby red now.
My question is, how do you prep them? Do you let the tortoise eat them whole or do you cut them up and de-seed them? The only reason...
So it's the dead of winter and my little Viola is restless. It's too cold outside to let her run around but the inside of the house is fully carpeted and we keep it at around 70 in the winter. I'd love to let her roam around (with supervision of course) but the problem is she poops everywhere...
So I'm posting this on behalf of my friend's 6mo old water dragon. Over the past few days he had become lethargic and unwilling to eat. A trip to the vet confirmed he had MBD. When I heard this, I was shocked. His set up is probably one of the best set ups I have ever seen for a water dragon...
So maybe once a week or so, I've been adding chopped Bermuda grass hay to Viola's diet. I figured the nice fiber source would be good for her.
But on a rather slow day at work, I decided to roam the internet and read a dozen or so different caresheets on Redfoots, and I noticed a specific...
If any of you live in Western Washington, you KNOW how bipolar our weather is! I was so excited, because this Monday was a WHOPPING 82 degrees!! Perfect tortoise outdoor weather!! But...my first day off from work was Wednesday, so I couldn't do anything for Viola and Toni until then. Wouldn't...
So I work at a vet office (just a dog/cat one, mind you) and one of our technicians used to work with reptiles at another clinic. We were talking about tortoises, when I mentioned Viola, my solitary Redfoot. This made her raise a brow, and say "she's all alone? I always heard that Redfoots liked...
So I've noticed recently in Toni's moss, that there seem to be tiny, salt/sugar grain sized insects living in there. They seem to stay buried deep within the moss, and come out to mass on any sort of decaying material, like some leftover food. Toni doesn't seem to be bothered, and the insects...
So, I have Viola, my RF, in a 55 gal Rubbermaid storage container. Her bedding is 100% Sphagnum Moss, and her water dish is one of those large ceramic pot bottoms. Her basking light, which is a 100watt Powersun is on the side of her water dish for extra humidity. She also has a towel...
I attempted to switch both Viola and Toni to a 100% Sphagnum moss substrate. The thing is...its not cheap. So I went to home Depot, paid $10 for three huge logs of it, put it in the freezer for a few days to "sterilize" and then switched over their bedding. Its working nicely too. Its clean...
I noticed around here a lot of people are feeding their tortoises Mazuri brand tortoise diet. I was surprised, because I was under the impression that pellet diets were not appropriate being fed in such large quantities, because of the high grain and Omega 6 fatty acid count.
Looking at...
Hi there! As I said in my Introduction post, I have a lot of questions that have gone unanswered for some time. So...here you are! Some should be short to answer, others not so much. I'll start with the short ones first.
1. What are the bugs in my torts tanks?!
So I got some sphagnum moss...
Hello everyone! I'm Liz, coming to you from not-very-sunny Western Washington!
I can't believe I found an active tortoise website! I was part of another, but it was pretty much dead, only a teeny handful of people posting, and typically only a few times a week. It was a bit frustrating...