Thanks again all. It was a rather uneventful day in the tortoise pen as far as I can tell. I was gone all day, but don't see any freshly dug earth and yesterday's hole is still unused. She has retired into the heated house for the evening.
Yes, I have hard clay soil, and I was amazed that she...
Thanks all!
Great idea about the chair and the ceramic heater! I'll definitely be doing that tonight if she's in the same situation.
I do have an incubator ready to go. After two straight days of false starts I decided it was high time to get it ready last night. I'm just getting the temp...
I have a young adult Gpb that seems to be having a problem laying her first clutch. She's about 10" straight line and has never layed before. For each of the last two days she has come out of her heated tortoise house and dug shallow holes. She then backs into the hole and sits, apparently...
I've been communicating with a gentleman that has a female leopard that he can no longer care for. He says that she is 16 to 18 years old and about 18 inches long straight line. He said that her mate died unexpectedly 4 years ago. He said that prior to the male's death, she was laying 8 to 10...
I'm looking for a female breeder Geochelone pardalis babcockii. I'm located near San Diego, so you would need to be either local (within 250 miles for pickup) or willing to ship to San Diego area. Please let me know what you have available. Please send your asking price shipped to 92071 zip to...
My male leopard is about 8" straight across the shell front-to-back, and the female about 10". I live near San Diego, CA. I'm in an inland valley, so winter nights can get down to the 20's F. Daytime temps in the 50s. My converted doghouse about 24" x 40" inside.
I recently converted a dog house into a tortoise house for a pair of adolescent leopard tortoises. I sandwiched some insulation between inner and outer plywood walls. Now I'm ready to install heat, and I'm in a quandry about the best way to do it. I've got two heat sources available, an 18" x...
Thanks all for your input. I really appreciate it.
I hadn't thought about just allowing the probe to dangle from the thermostat. For my snake enclosures I'm used to anchoring the probe over the source of belly heat so that it doesn't get too warm for them. I plan on mounting the thermostat in a...
Hello all. I live about 20 miles from San Diego, CA in an inland valley. You might not think it gets very cold here, but nighttime temps in the winter can drop well below freezing with daytime temps in the '50s. I'm setting up a heated tortoise house for a pair of young leopard tortoises, and...