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Hello tort parents. I have not been on the forum in quite a while. Some of you may remember The CDT's Gordo and Twitch. Well, last year I moved up to Eureka CA from Sacramento. My ex cared for the torts for a few months when they came out of hibernation and then I went down and got them. Since...

My fish has been through a lot with the last summer heat wave and all. Had to keep dumping cold water in her tank so she wouldn't cook. Had to dump cold water over myself for the same reason. The torts didn't mind the heat thgouh. wierd. Anyways, twice now, my Oscar has jumped out of her...

Hello all, I am not sure how to go about handling this. Gordo and Twitch are very healthy, but since the temperature change they have gone in to their own kind of hibernation. For the first few days I kept waking them up and moving them to the warmest part of their home, and making them eat...

Hello all on the forum. I haven't posted in quite a while, been very busy. Some of you may remember Gordo and Twitch. The two juvenile california dt's that I got from a friend who couldn't care for them. The reason for my posting is that I fear I can not care for them the way I did before...

I just saw a white little bug crawling on my DT's shell. I looked it up thinking they were mites, but they say mites are not usually white. What the heck are they? Oh my goodness! So worried now. Help!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0fKTBZ_b2A I found this to be somewhat interesting and a little educating...

So some of you may have read my post about a huge scare I had a couple of weeks ago regarding the temp of my house. It was in the 100's and no a/c. The scare was my Oscar almost dying. I was concerned about my torts, but completely spaced the fact that the aquarium temp was rising as well. Well...

How old do DT's have to be before you van sex them?[hr] sorry, I meant "can sex them"

So I made my DT's a tort table a few weeks back. I live in an area where bugs get in my house. I have been noticing that the bugs/flies/ants/spiders and whatever else creep into mi casa and head straight for the tort table. I am very careful and whenever I see them I immediately remove them, but...

My Oscar I have had for over 4 years is dying/dead. Can't tell because she is hiding. As much as I hate to say it I have never cried over a fish. I have not had air conditioning in my house over the weekend. It has been almost 100 constantly. I totally worried about the torts but didn't think...

So, I have to go do jury duty tomorrow morning and I know for a fact I am going to be bored. I was wondering if anybody has any good jury duty stories. I'm sure someone on here has actually served more than one day, and did a trial. Just curious to hear about it.

Wanted to show the new indoor enclosure..worked hard but well worth it. Here we go, any advice would be much appreciated. I posted this before, but I don't think it went through, so if it posted twice, I apologize. Didn't seem to bother their appetite. :D [hr]...

So, here's Gordo trying to kick Twitch off his slate. I was laughing so hard. He just kept pushing with his back leg. It was sad for Twitch though, he lost. LOL

I have a store that I frequent for bulbs..substrate..etc. As soon as you walk in, the smell is like a punch in the face. This store is a little less than 1,000 sq. feet. They have tortoises, lizards, snakes, turtles, mice, so on and so forth. The animals all seem to have adequate room to move...

So a few weeks back I changed to eco-earth/sand substrate. My torts love it, however I occasionally see a piece of the eco-earth hanging out of their mouth and it looks like they tried to eat it. I will go to pull it out of their mouth and I will pull out a long string, almost all the way from...

So with everyone's advice and helpful ideas my little Gordo and Twitch are "bulking" up. Yay! Even though they are at max. 3 inches long in the carapace, I can actually feel the weight difference. I need to get a scale. Their appetite now is amazing. That spring mix is a dream come true. I now...

So my smaller tort Twitch is peeling around the neck. I read in a past thread to not pull the skin off. This is kind of wierd though, the whole top of his neck is peeling at once kind of like a snake shedding. I do believe that since they are experiencing better care they might be going through...

So, I attempted to make my little guys this slightly blended combo of grass, dandelion greens, and a little zucchini. Well, it turned out like pea soup. It was a monstrosity..however, I still wanted them to try it just to see if they liked the mashed up stuff or preferred little chunks...

So, my DT's are still very small and in recovery from a neglectful home. I am in the process of making their indoor home the best it can be, but I want them to be able to be outdoors for a while every day to get that natural sunlight and real grass. I have a planter beside me home that I just...

Ok, so here are pics of Gordo and Twitch in their home. I have already been told to add some kind of substrate. Ideas would be helpful, for some reason I thought sand could give them infections. I am also going to get them some cuttlebone here in a couple days. Their basking area gets to...