I have (what we believe is a female) Russian tortoise for sale along with her tortoise table (custom built) and everything I have (TNT, light fixtures, bulbs for basking / UVB & UVA, food dishes etc). I've had her for a little under a year and unfortunately am not able to take her to where I'm...
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Thanks for the response. I'm unable to get the cool side any cooler (the house sits at 73F so it's possible the temp reading is just off). I live in Central Florida so the weather is muggy. Her eyes and nose seem fine from what I can tell. With some nudging on my end she's been a...
Hot side is 85F, cool side is 75F (house temperature) and the basking area is 95 - 100F (raised it up a bit to lower the temperature)
I just took Juliet out of her sleeping and gave her a long nice soak in the bathtub. I've left her some fresh food and water (as I normally do anyway) and she...
So, I've had Juliet for quite a while now and all has been well. I've been feeding her the same foods, providing her TNT and a salt block to chew on if needed. Her turtle table has worked great for her with proper lighting and places to hide etc. Very little has changed except recently she has...
Thank you for the heads up! I hadn't heard anything one way or another and I knew CFL's were the new way (I guess LED is now too) so I went that route. I'll definitely look into that.
I just got Juliet moved into her new home last night, these are a few photos I was able to snap.
Sorry for the poor quality, it was late and as you can see she was already asleep.
For those that care I ended up getting a can of this:
For the entire inside (and not just the bottom). The table is at my girlfriends so I won't have a chance to work on it again till next weekend. The truck bed liner should seal the entire inside against any moisture getting into the...
Thanks, I'm in the process of staining the wood and sealing it. For the bottom I used truck bed liner on MDF board. All in all of I'm really happy with it. Way bigger and better than anything I found online or in store that I could buy.
Btw, Juliet is a russian so she'll have plenty of room (I...
I had some time today so I decided to make a turtle table. It's 5 ft X 3 ft X 1 ft. On my cell so I sorry for the lack of info but I think wanted to show it off!
Thanks for all the welcomes!
I have done some upgrading to Juliet's home for those that care to see. I'm still not 100% happy with her setup but for the time being it'll have to do.
I got a chance today to go to Tractor Supply and saw their 50 gallon tubs (4.5~ ft by 2.5~ ft) looks like...
I had some free time last night and I felt the desire to join the tubs I have for a temp solution (they're rather cheap so I wanted to first see what it would be like). This is what it turned out like:
These 2 tubs were different size so I had to do some "engineering" on the one further back...
Yes it is, I'm in the process of trying to join 2 containers together for her internal habitat. We do take her outside whenever we get the chance. I have 2 cement tubs (first one was smaller than I wanted) and I'm currently formulating a way to combine the 2 together until I can build her a...
Howdy all,
I've had Juliet (Russian (female?) Tortoise) for about a month now and have loved every minute of it :). I've been to this site a few times and decided I might as well join as I have tons of questions and love to learn.
My girlfriend loves turtles / tortoises and I was in need...