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  1. Shannon and Jason

    Prolapsed or just enjoying showing manhood

    Quick run down on habitat coco coir bedding room temp 80 basking 100 degrees. Varied diet of greens weeds and mazuri. We soak every 3 days he has access to water at all times. He very active we go outside when it's warm enough but the past couple weeks it's been really cold so we've stayed...
  2. Shannon and Jason

    Update Tanks 13 mos old now

    Ok he not perfect (well to us he is :p) but he weighs 2.5 lbs and is 7 1/4 inches in length and 6 inches in width. His menu consist of a variety of different green leafs, weeds, cactus pads and mazuri. We give him minerals every 3rd day calcium once a week (he gets a lot from his greens) We...
  3. Shannon and Jason

    Our new pet

    We just got him today his name is Butters. Not real sure how old he is I received him from a teenage boy who found him on the side of the road by his mother (road kill). 0.0.1 Tank sulcata 1.0.0 Butters opossum
  4. Shannon and Jason

    My Poor Tank

    I'm sure poor tank is traumatized from this experience. My friends mother came over to see tank we were outside by his habitat. While we are all talking she leans down picks up tank and is dangling him and shaking him like he a toy. I took him away immediately and tried to politely explain that...
  5. Shannon and Jason

    It's snack time

    Tank enjoying the outdoors and munching on some greens
  6. Shannon and Jason

    Enjoying the warmth (lots of pics)

    Today is such a beautiful day tank taking full advantage he been eating everything in sight
  7. Shannon and Jason

    Status update on tanks beak injury

    And one in during the evening soak This is an old pic after his enclosure was completed hold humidity and hear great His beak is looking a lot better its healing no infection which is awesome. Gonna weigh him tomorrow so will post weight and more pics tomorrow
  8. Shannon and Jason

    Beak injury

    1st ill go through the run down 4 temps night 80 daytime cool side 80 basking 101 warm side 97 humidity 80%. Closed chamber tortoise table substrate is coco coir. Tanks beak has a hole in the top front I dnt know what caused it he been normal eating vigorously pooping soak 30 min in the morning...
  9. Shannon and Jason

    Planting Catctus pads

    I searched through the old threads on how to make a cactus pad grow. But still a little confused, The pads I received from the Tortoise Supply (ordered 4lbs wow gotta lot of cactus now and it was fairly priced) have already been scarred per say so do I need to cut the pad again and put it in the...
  10. Shannon and Jason

    Can a tortoise catch the flu

    I am curious if a tortoise can catch the flu. Our oldest thinks we should move tanks (baby sulcata) enclosure to her room since its the only room our youngest is not allowed in (She has the flu we found out this morning). SO I am looking for advice. fyi our youngest shows no interest in Tank...
  11. Shannon and Jason

    Introductions

    Hi everyone, my name is Shannon, we have a baby sulcata Tank. Some of you may already know since when we got our little guy he was a lil sick. But now he is just as active and lively as one can be thanks to the great advise we got from you guys. My daughter (Sabrina age 8) since finding this...
  12. Shannon and Jason

    ??? On bathing our lil one

    I am wanting to know if I can bathe Tank and what to use. I soak the lil one 3x a day in warm water but was wondering if I needed to do more. We are enjoying this lil guy so much. I wanna give Tank every advantage possible even on looks.
  13. Shannon and Jason

    Blowing bubbles through its nose

    We just got our Sulcata yetserday he was shipped to us. I noticed this morning he was blowing bubbles through his nose. Is this normal or should I be alarmed?[/font]
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