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Yes. It is a little overgrown. When this happens, there is usually a reason for it. Often something is off in the enclosure, diet, lighting or temperature. I'll leave this for your review to see if you can spot what it might be...

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You've been given the wrong care info. You need to make some changes. Your tortoise needs a much larger enclosure and there are four elements to the lighting. MBD is corrected with good strong UVB lighting, the right temperatures, the correct diet and supplements. Pyramiding is corrected with...

Many people get very frustrated when they watch videos, buy all the stuff the pet store said to buy, go on FB tortoise groups, and try really hard to do a good job only to come here and be told that everything they did is all wrong. I completely understand when that happens. I'd be frustrated...

Where are you? This doesn't look like a good place for a tortoise to live because its too shady and because of all that gravel. Even if you put something like orchid bark over the top of it, that gravel will work its way to the surface. I think a truckload of clean fill dirt would be the best...

They are both still immature, so we can't sex them with certainty yet. The one on the left has a larger tail, extended gulars, and I can see hints of the male chin glands there. I predict male. The one on the right has a smaller tail, no chin glands, and the anal scute shape looks like its...

You will want something that tolerates colder temperatures and is small enough to live indoors most of the year in your climate. Any of the Testudo will fit this bill. Russians, Greeks or hermanni. A red foot needs warm temps and high humidity year round, and the enclosure would have to b room...

You aren't likely to find one in MI. You'll need to have it shipped to you. Check with @TylerStewart at tortoisesupply.com for greeks. He also has older larger Burmese star babies, and I have newly hatched little babies depending on what you want.

Hello and welcome. If you've been watching videos, then you've gotten all the usual wrong info that almost everyone starts with. I say all of this to help you keep this guy alive and well, not to be mean. Almost all of the care info for this species is the same wrong info repeated over and...

This is the typical old wrong info the we often speak of. I, and many others here, used glass tank to start babies for decades with no problems. The only problem with glass tanks is that they are too small for anything other than a hatchling, and the open top lets all the heat and humidity out.

I don't know if the eggs will diapause at 80 degrees. I've done them at 75-76 in summer, but never 80. Humidity should be over 80% through all stages of incubation.

Edema. There can be many causes. I wouldn't worry about it. If all else is good, that works itself out.

You need and outdoor cage with a visual barrier around the bottom. For a baby hermanni, this would only need to be about 6 inches tall. Babies should only be outside for about one hour per inch of tortoise as a general rule. Babies fare better when kept mostly indoors in stable warm conditions...

@HoosierTort is not too far from you. @Carol S can ship one to you. @biochemnerd808 recently advertised some for sale. @TylerStewart breeds a bunch each year. All of these sellers will sell you a healthy well started baby.

That is all understandable, but the product in this case is some distance away from the feeder and the humming birds would not come into contact with it.

The 12% Arcadia HO is the best on the market in my experience, but an 18 inch ceiling can't accommodate it. The bulb itself will stick down another couple of inches even if you mount it directly to the ceiling, and that might be a little too close. Do you have a meter to check the UV level with...

Sounds great. You would need to heat the house with something other than the heat lamp. The heat lamp would just be for basking when the weather turns cold and the sun isn't shining. You still need a way to keep the house warmer than the outside temp at night when it needs to be dark. This can...

Yes it does, but the bigger question is why is this happening? It shouldn't be happening. You need to re-assess your housing and care strategies. This usually happens when the enclosure is too small, wrong diet, lack of UV, etc... In your climate, a Russian should be able to live outside most of...

How could you possibly know that? There are lots of other reasons why they might have left. The nectar flow is on right now, so say my bees, and the bees prefer natural nectar sources to sugar water when they can get it. Perhaps there are trees and shrubs flowering nearby? Its springtime. There...

1. Feed it every day, as much as it wants of the right foods. 2. They don't have to be soaked ever if they are drinking and keeping themselves hydrated. I recommend soaking adults twice a week to ensure that they are healthy and staying hydrated. 3. See the care sheet linked by Alex. There is a...