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We finally got some nice weather up here in central NY and the torts got to go adventuring in the yard. I'm not sure A'Tuin and Tortellini were planning on me snapping so many pictures but they really should be expecting it by this point :) Here's A'Tuin: "Stubborn grass. Quit resisting and get...

My torts do the itchy dance all the time. I don't have it on video yet but here's some turtles from youtube getting their butt scratching twerk on :D @counting

The rotating tort menu in my house is pretty close to that list but there are a few extra items I add. I feed zucchini and yellow squash all the time, just cut it into largish chunks so it doesn't roll right out of their dish. It's firm enough to help wear their beaks a bit but not so firm they...

Generally my two don't have access to gravel/rocks but sometimes they can surface seemingly out of nowhere. This was a photo from last summer, I collected my two in the evening to bring them inside and A'Tuin had this in her mouth. It was too big for her to swallow but she really didn't want to...

It's not a bad idea to take them in for a general check up when they are healthy so the vet has something to compare their condition to if they develop any issues. My vet also required an initial general exam before they would run a fecal parasite egg test. So I took my two torts in for general...

I don't see any pyramiding with your tort, in fact they are lovely and smooth :) You can see the growth lines/rings but they are not raised and are completely normal. You've done a great job with them!

I'll second the hard boiled egg issue. The only instance I've had of a tort throwing up (with some very nasty loose stool as well) was within a few hours of eating a hard boiled egg. She'd eaten them fine in the past but had a bad reaction that time. I had never even heard of a tort throwing up...

Hey great job with the treatment! I battled shell rot with one of my reds a couple summers back. Here's the link if you'd like: http://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/new-rescue-with-shell-rot.93474/#post-877730 I think I treated every day with the fungal cream for about two weeks (since that's...

That's kinda where I'm at too but it's great to get confirmation others have a similar opinion. I've see-sawed so often one way or another on my guesses that I'm tempted to take long term bets on whether or not they'll eventually surprise me with eggs or a pervy flash of junk :P All in all it...

Hey everyone, long time no see. It's been a while since I've posted anything on here (although I do lurk and read posts now and then). My two redfoots, Tortellini and A'tuin are doing well, still cheekily stomping around their enclosures and eating everything in sight. Now that they're a little...

I feel like that split scute baby should be named Zipper :p I don't have room for another, but you sure do hatch out some lookers!

I caught my biggest one doing this last week too. The slate she was chomping on wasn't even where she usually gets her food but one under her MVB that she sometimes lays on for basking, so I know she wasn't just aiming for some food and missing. She chewed away at it for a minute or two and I...

That's exactly the kind of info I was looking for. I figured there would be more to it then just making sure it was the right wattage. I'm assuming t8, t5, t5HO will be printed on both the bulb and fixture to compare?

Interesting, this rather answers the question I was just getting ready to post. I have a normal non-uv fluorescent light and fixture on one end of my enclosure (MVB on the other side) and I was looking to replace it with a UV bulb. I wasn't sure if the regular fluorescent fixture would be okay...

Hmm, looks like a scab of some sort to me. One of my torts has gotten little scrapes on her neck a time or two, I can't tell if they're from her nails or something in her enclosure but they always make me a bit of an anxious mother hen when they appear. My main concern with the scab/injury on...

I used to feed my red foot boiled egg as her protien source and didn't have any problems for months. One day however I woke up to the same mess you did. The poor tort had a rough night, multiple piles of muck that seemed to have come out of both ends. The egg was the only thing she'd gotten out...

I keep my greens in a lettuce saver like this on amazon. It has a reservoir in the bottom, underneath the part that holds the greens, that you fill with a thin layer of water. There are ventilation holes between the water area and the greens area so the humidity stays up without actually soaking...

I change water/soaking dishes usually once a day, every other day at the longest. My torts track their mulch into the water (and poop too of course) and I don't really feel comfortable flushing the muck down the toilet. I think the sediment and wood slivers run the risk of clogs. So I just keep...

-Dirt in the bath tub= lol, all the time! -The assistants at Home Depot/Lowes ask you what project you're working on and causing you to go off on a long detailed explanation of your next enclosure build (complete with design sketches), they get a glazed look of panic when they realize they were...

Thanks everybody for the interest and compliments! As for theguy67 and "I'd love to get theirs nice and dark like yours." I really wish I knew what exactly triggered the color change here and pass the secret along but it's still a mystery to me! My best guess is that she was kept too dry and...