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I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this, so I apologize in advance if I'm in the wrong spot. I got a very young puppy for Christmas this year, and since having him, I've not been able to dedicate the right amount of time and money to caring for Karloff. If anyone in the Central...

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Hello all :) Just a wondering of mine, I've noticed that Karloff has started sitting in his food and shoving it off the plate into the dirt of his enclosure before eating it. Just curious if anyone knew if there was some specific reason for that or he's just playing with his food?

Thanks! I found her and sent her an email, hopefully she will be able to help me out :)

Hello all :) I am newly engaged, and my fiance and I are moving from Florida to Alaska over the summer. We are driving up to Washington, then catching a ferry from there to Anchorage, then will be in the car for another day to get from Anchorage to Fairbanks. Is it possible to bring my Russian...

That's the next step. Right now I can't leave him out unsupervised at all, so next weekend we're going to get four dowels (spelling?) and staple them together, then attach the chicken wire to that and hinge it. It will also have a lock to secure it closed, as it is in my front yard and there are...

We finally completed Karloff's new outdoor enclosure (just in time for an entire 24 hours of torrential downpouring rain!). Wanted to post pictures and get some advice on how to improve it. Its four square feet, the base has chicken wire stapled to it to ensure that he can't dig his way out of...

I read through the outdoor pen section of Tortoiseforum and found some pictures, but not a whole lot of detailed sort of explanations about how to really build a solid, safe, interesting outdoor pen for Russians. I have a garden in my front yard that I want to fence off and convert into an...

Yes, his constant is spring mix but I supplement it with endive, escarole (which he doesn't seem to like much), butter leaf lettuce mix, experimented with cabbage which he didn't like, turnip and mustard greens (which are his favorite). I was wondering though about things like broccoli or herb...

The last time I posted, Karloff hadn't eaten in a few weeks and was extremely inactive. After taking him to the vet and determining that because of this unseasonably cold weather in Florida, he was probably attempting to hibernate, I did what the vet suggested and just left him alone. I turned...

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I was worried about those ridges inside too, but I just covered them up with the coir/sand mix, I doubt he'll be able to hurt himself on them so it should be ok. Its about twice the size as his old home, and he's been wandering around exploring all the corners since he moved in. Eventually I...

Thanks, I didn't know that's how their shells grow. Very big relief.

Your enclosure is beautiful! What kinds of plants are those you have in with him? I want to try to copycat you :)

I know I've posted a lot the past couple of days, am probably just an overly concerned mama. But I wanted to submit a before and after picture of Karloff's new enclosure, as well as a closeup shot of his shell and where I'm seeing some cracks beginning to form. This coupled with his lack of...

My Russian always excretes that milky white urea discharge. As far as my research has taken me, this is the normal way that desert tortoises pee, since they don't have a lot of water in their bodies. That's why you're supposed to soak them once or twice a week, because the only time they will...

Sorry, yes I did start on another post and this was an add on to it. He hasn't been eating much in the past week or so, and there were a couple of different things that could have caused it. So to fix it, I upped the temperature in his enclosure, added a UVB bulb to help him absorb calcium...

I also discovered a tiny hairline crack developing in his shell, this has me thinking that the bulbs I've been using since I got him have not been UVA/UVB and he's not absorbing calcium at all. I picked up a second lamp with a 26 watt light with 10 watts UVB, which is supposed to be enough for...

His basking area is only showing a temperature of 89 degrees, so I picked up a higher wattage bulb to warm him up a little bit. Also, I noticed that the bulb says its a full spectrum blue daylight bulb (UVA) but may be used in conjunction with a UVB bulb for calcium absorption. Does this mean...

I'm waiting for the thermometer to arrive in the mail, then will test out the temps in different areas in the enclosure and post them, probably tomorrow. Thanks