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    She ate a piece of wood.

    Hey all, just had a quick question and wanted to run it by someone more experienced than I. My CDT just pooped a piece of wood almost 1" long and 1/3" wide. For reference, her shell size is roughly 8-9" long and she was rescued and registered just last year. She has some shell damage due to...
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    Advice please?

    I knew this day would come but it's coming at the worst possible time xD My rescue CDT, Bogey (aka. "Bug") has outgrown her enclosure. Currently she resides indoors in a large cement mixing tub with a hide box & water bowl. We had a real fiasco with coconut coir earlier this year (we got a...
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    new growth or infection?

    Sorry, I'm probably being a little paranoid- I've only had Bogey since we rescued her last year so I'm new at this. Is this just a lot of new growth or should I be worried about the pinkness on the edges? She's a CDT, unknown age, about 6 1/2" - 7" long and has some pyramiding ( eems to be...
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    Question about shell care in CDT

    I have a rescued CDT named Bogey- we found her late last summer and I've made a few posts around here to chat or ask questions. Here's a pic of the very moment we found her- it's super blurry because it's from my cellphone camera but you can see the pyramiding as well as her shell issues: Her...
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    Water dish

    I'm so sorry to keep asking so many dumb questions- I feel like I've got a lot of catching up to do and I'm definitely a little worried that I'll miss something big. :shy: For the past week and a few days, I haven't noticed Bogey drinking from her terra cotta soaking tray- she's still been...
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    CDT question

    I have a semi-rescued desert tortoise (we found her wandering at the end of the road near the beach about six months ago- more info HERE) who is currently living indoors since it hasn't really warmed up yet, but with lots of supervised outside time in the sun in our fenced backyard. We live near...
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    + one tortoise

    Hey :) I'm Laura, and this is my tort, Bogey. We live in coastal San Diego county in southern California and late last summer when the weather was starting to cool off, we went for a drive along the ocean. We had wanted to walk around for a bit but the first street we parked on had...
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