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    current setups

    hi guys :) :) yeah it was over a year ago since I was talking to you all I think so I'm not surprised you don't recall. So my Hermanns lives in an alcove 6x2 ft in my living room with mvb light and all his accessories but towels instead of soil. The towels absorb heat from the light, provide a...
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    current setups

    So it's been a long time since I posted so hi everyone :-D recently moved into our own home so thought I would update you with the new homes for the tortoises. My Hermanns is now 7 and still have him set up in an open plan way using towels as a base rather than soil/coir and he's doing really...
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    A House Tortoise?

    We have a hermanns he's coming up to 7 and he used to hate being kept in his table and constantly try to escape...so we cleared out an area and turned it into Horace's home..(the pics only missing his water dish) and he then has access to the kitchen with hard wood floor and outdoor areas...
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    the comfy life

    I never would have thought a tortoise would prefer the comfy life... but this one does! although Lola still prefers the proper tortoise life but I guess Horace did start the year with his head in a shoe.... sometimes I really do wonder...lol x x
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    Magazine

    Oh wow!! can Horace and lola play too???
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    Severe Aggression

    Our six yr old hermanns has just started doing this with my gf. He chases her feet and bites at the slippers, although not very hard or hard enough to draw blood anyway....but he really runs to chase her whenever she walks away or moves him. We gave him a cushion shaped like a chicken lol and he...
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    tortoise room

    thanks :) it was just that we gave him so much space and freedom over the summer when it came to being back in the tortoise table he wanted to be out of it all the time, and we didnt have the room to expand....wish we could give him an actual room that would be so cool but really its just his...
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    tortoise room

    so Horace liked his towel and light setup so much we gave him his own room- under the stairs. he can go outside whenever he wants if the weather is ok as the door is pretty much opposite and we can shut him in whenever we need to... no drafts because its like an alcove cupboard thingy and...
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    mercury vapour bulb

    told you it was a dumb question i was totally confused and read the info wrong :( really embarrising actually :( sorry
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    mercury vapour bulb

    Really dumb question, but im a little confused. We got a MVB for horace my 5/6 yr old hermanns and set it all up like the instructions said, 80cm/ 30 inches away from the floor. it just isnt getting the temps warm enough. should i lower the light? will this change the UVB levels? and will it...
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    expansion

    Hi :) so its getting nearer winter and we dont plan on hibernating lola who also currently has a little eye issue atm :( but we also dont want her missing out on play time over the winter, though obviously she might not be as active anyway, so we decided to extend.... any suggestions would be...
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    Bored tort

    haha iv just cleaned her out, its impossible really, just take things out one section at a time. I remove her poos on the surface every day anyway then just mist every day so it doesnt dry out too much. :)
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    Lola's big tort house :)

    hey thanks :) your right lol it wont be too long :)
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    Lola's big tort house :)

    So yeah some of you may have seen the posts about our inactive tort Lola. In the last few weeks the difference has been dramatic. She is now as alert and active in her house as she is outside. This is a pic of the set up. The white edges you can see are ice cream tubs my gf made into a tunnel...
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    Bored tort

    hey I think we had a bored tort. I posted a few times in the russian section about an inactive russian called Lola. Decided house too small, and not enough to feel mischievous about doing lol. Our russian went into a bigger house and is now a totally happy tort :) she went from this: to...
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    sleeping in the kitchen

    My male hermanns has learnt how to climb back inside the house when he is outdoors and walks straight into a wooden floored kitchen. I think he thinks its a game, as soon as we put him out, he comes right back in. So as we cant get a heat source outside atm, we placed a towel with a basking...
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    Inactive Lola

    Hi :) we thought about what you said and as she cant be outside all the time we sorted out Lola's home a little bit. Its now bigger and hopefully more interesting! We are hoping this does the trick as everything else about her is normal :D Thanks x
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    Inactive Lola

    Hi thanks for all your help :) we have her outside as much as possible at the moment nearly every day, at least 3 times a week but it has just rained here for 3 days solidly :( she was outside all day again today and she is active in a change of surroundings but all she really does is look for...
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    Inactive Lola

    Hi :) I posted a while back about Lola our Horsefield Tortoise and her inactivity levels. Basically she just sleeps all the time! We get her out and soak her in the morning and she appears perfectly healthy no runny nose etc she will then eat her breakfast and go back to sleep for the rest of...
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    tunneling?

    My russian tortoise keeps burrowing down into her soil as far as she can go and then she will just move around her house but underneath the soil, like a tunnel. Her head will just appear somewhere else lol. She does this all day and doesnt really bother moving around too much on the surface...
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