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Hi all, Due to medical issues in my family I am going to be taking a semester or two off of school to go home. It will be extremely difficult to care for my 3 year old sulcata, Dane, so I want to give him to somebody who can give him a better life than I can give him during this very...

Hi Guys! It's been forever since I've posted on these forums. Dane is doing well! He spent May-September in a large outdoor enclosure pretty much 24/7 unless it was raining hard or hailing (or cold). He grew so much! Last month we celebrated his one year with us. He even had is own tortoise...

Nice work! For living in such horrid conditions, it sure doesn't have too bad of pyramiding!

Cool! Jonathan at DBT World is great, plus he produces outstanding torts! Let me know if they decide to breed for you...hopefully I'll be out of college by then and be able to get one or two!

They are gorgeous! How big are they? Where did you get them from? DBTs are the only species of turtle that I will ever own as well. I used to have a male and female northerns but sadly had to sell them when I went off to college- for some reason the University of Minnesota doesn't like 125...

What a beautiful tort! I've never seen a smoother shell! My boyfriend and I will be back in Stevens Point this summer, we should get our torts together for a play date at a green, pesticide-free park!

The markings on her shell and head are not the same as a florida chicken turtle- there's much more yellow on them.

Looks to me like a big old Yellow-Bellied Slider (Trachemys scripta scripta).

It's a wonder what Adderall can do to empty word documents! Just one little pill can fill 20 pages in less than 3 hours!

Thanks be ta God, Shelly!

Well I would hope he's male...his name is Thor after all! I love his face! He looks so old and wise.

Great work rescuing them. I would ditch those big rocks at the bottom for smaller pebbles (but yet still big enough so that they can't eat them) or sand. Its very easy for a hatchling to get its foot or head stuck in between them and drown.

Andy, this forum is not run by the government of North Korea, you don't have to worry about dissing a product. I appreciate you sharing this. The numbers and ingredients don't lie. It doesn't matter if HUGE zoos use it or not- if somebody is going to feed commercial food to their torts (which...

Minneapolis is experiencing clear skies today and lots of bright warm sun. The temperature is a balmy 42 degrees- a perfect day for Dane to get his first taste of real sun in over 2 months! We walked down the street to an up-scale apartment building that had a nice lawn. Dane got to see...

JD- Indoor lights are the only option when in is -30 degrees outside.

Maggie, what was the bulb that you were using called?

Thanks so much for your help guys. I'm still not convinced that my ReptiSun 10.0 is harmful to my reptiles. A quick google search for photokeratoconjunctivitis brings up a lot of studies on the effects that welding has on the eyes of humans- a welding torch is much different from a coil bulb...

I have seen a lot of talk on here about coil bulbs being bad for torts' eyes, but nobody really states why this is so or shows any proof. I have used ReptiSun 10.0 compact bulbs on my bearded dragon and Diamondback Terrapins for about 2 years now, and have been using it for Dane for almost two...

Seiryu, its a ReptiSun 10.0, and I know people say those kind burn tortoises eyes but I don't believe it. I've used coil bulbs with turtles and beardies in the past and have never had a problem. As for the substrate I use Eco Earth.

Males grow faster, have a concave plastron and their anal notches are flat and narrow. The anal notches of females are rounded (egg-shaped). Your tortoise's anal notches still are shaped like a V, not allowing us to have a definitive answer, but if I had to guess I would say male.