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Mahalo plenty for all the suggestions! You are all so wonderful to this total noob, and I super appreciate you! Jaqui, the grass seed is plain old Bermuda grass seed- no fertilizers. The seed coats have been engineered for water asorption, but that shouldn't be harmful to Kippie once the...

Hello all- Kip is our rescue Russian (female) whom I intended to keep in a large outdoor enclosure in a part of our yard. She had a RI when we picked her up from the vet though, so for a little over a month she has been living in her indoor enclosure with constant heat, light, and moisture...

Hello all! Sorry it's been so long since my last post, but I just wanted to give you all an update on the newest member of our family. This is Kip. She was rescued from an older couple whose son thought a tortoise would be a neat pet, but then left her behind when he went to the...

Thank you all so much- we p/u Kip in a couple of hours and I'm pretty nervous. It's been super rainy, even for kaneohe. I've actually had to drain several gallons of water from my aquaponics tanks and put up a series of giant umbrellas over my traditional garden bed. I'm thinking that...

RE: advice on a breed that might like rainy, humid Kaneohe? Wow- update! First off, re-reading my initial post makes me feel silly. Even though I thought I'd done some pretty thorough info gathering on tortoise-keeping in the last two weeks, I realized I hadn't been looking in the right...

Okay, so I know that "tortoises" and "wet and cold" don't go together, no matter what the breed- but what about wet and warm? I live in Kaneohe Hawaii, where it is very humid, rains almost every day, and never usually gets below 70-75 degrees F. I know that galapagos would like it here but, I...

Hello all! I'm a newbie looking to purchase my first tortoise or terrestrial turtle. Technically, I suppose we already have a turtle, but since he's a wild red eared slider (or possibly a pet gone feral after being released by some irresponsible owner) who just happened to wander into our...