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Thank you! Your advice means so much. You and this site have been helping me raise a big smooth baby, as a first time owner for the last 7 years. I adore my tortoise and I just know I would have lost her through innocent ignorance if it hadn’t been for this forum. I know I have a long way to...

Thank you! I have heard/read great things about them, then when it arrived it had so many warnings it made me nervous. I have been warming my feet on it for hours at my desk and it seems to have stayed at a pleasant temp the entire time and not gotten uncomfortable hot. It is plugged to a...

Sorry to jump into this thread, I am following a few designs on this site ( Toms) for a proper insulated hide for my now much larger tort. I have a Kane mat with the intention on using it along with my oil filled radiator and was planning on placing it flat on the bottom of the hide for my 50lb...

Thank you Yes I have tried this lots and lots of times, I often feed her a treat or two then leave her alone with her food, however she will demolish the pile of food, ignore the treat and smashes into my hand! Haha. I'm thinking she is female as she certainly looks like one and has never...

Thank you. I have actually shoved her back and even once when she was just relentless I moved her backwards away from me, this appeared to give her pause for thought. I have spent a lot of hours on her living space, enclosures, hides etc, and find it pleasing that she is happy enough there to...

Hi guys, hope it's ok to jump in here with a similar question. My 5 year old sulcata is so very aggressive, she hisses and rams and chases me. I have to keep my eye in her when I'm cleaning her outdoor enclosure or going to fill her pond as she will charge at me from where ever she is. Obviously...

I love this ongoing story, my 5 year old sulcata and I have so far lived in 6 different states together. It's challenging, but very interesting

Thank you, I love her totally

I love this site! Thanks all, she is just about 16", she was hatched about November 2012. Despite her feelings for me, I adore her.

Thank so much everyone. I do occasionally hand feed her, but I have to dodge her like a matador a few times before she sights in on the food and stops ramming me and approaches the food nose first. However if I move my hand at all she immediately hunches up and rushes me shell first. It...

Tom! I could feel my heart sinking with that first line you wrote!!! Haha ok, I think there may be a little more concavity to his/her plastron in the last few months. Here are some pictures from today.

Hi everyone, hope you and your many animals are all happy and healthy. I have a question, my almost 5 year old 28lb sulcata appears to be active, eating well and healthy in most all respects, she/he is however very very aggressive? We currently live in kentucky and she has a huge grass/weed...

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Hi, thank you so much, I might have mislead you slightly, I am originally from England, but I live around the United States, mostly in the south. My husband and I work with horses and spend every winter Nov-April in south Florida, so no winters for me or my tortoise! Haha and lots of sunshine...

Hey everyone, I had some time on my hands today so I got some weights and measurements done. My girl/boy will be 5 years old in September, she measures 14 inches front to back on the bottom of her shell and 9.5 inches across the middle, and she weighed in at 22.6lbs. I think she is the most...

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Haha! Thank you so so much I am 5,4" and I couldn't find a measuring tape anywhere! As always I very much apriciate your expertise and advice. :)

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