For all that use or are considering using them, I found an expensive source for 150 and 250 watt ones. It is www.EggCartons.com.. They carry other products I find useful also.
In the warm time of year in my area I feed my torts on three plants as main diet. They are grape leaves, mulberry leaves, and Hibiscus sp. [both leaves and blossoms]. They are readily accepted but I have never found any nutrient values for any of them as food charts seem based on mammals [human]...
A bit of background . My outside tortoise enclosures are all backed by Concord grape vines. This time of year they begin to develop galls on leaves caused by Phylloxera bugs. New world grapes are resistant to damage besides cosmetic from this insect, so I'm not concerned with it. A major part of...
Recently I got a male Forsten's tortoise. His quarantine enclosure is not as secure as it should be. To make a long story short he has escaped from it several times and heads directly to the females enclosure ignoring all else. The females enclosure is a cattle tank with 30 inch sides so he...
This morning while doing routine maintenance on herps found this surprise in Homes enclosure. This pair was the 2008 rescue. I have observed breeding behaviour since shortly after rescue and now this.
Recently my local fish store began stocking frozen clams. These are small clams about an inch in length. I purchased a four ounce package for my DBTs and these were received with great enthusiasm . They finish the meat off within five minutes and munch on shells periodically afterward. I was...
Today I picked up a rescue pair of Homes in Hannibal, Mo. They are long term captives that the last few years as classroom pets but had to be rehomed. So they have moved up river but still in Mark Twain's haunts...