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I have just completed my night box and right now I am testing everything to make sure it is safe before moving my Sulcata in. One question I have though is should it be kept humid like a closed chamber or just kept warm? If you keep it humid how do you do it? Mine is 4x4x2 so limited space to...

Today I picked up almost everything to build a heated night box for my sulcata. I started the framing and expect to finish everything I can with the exception of what I'm waiting on to be delivered. It is going to be 4'lx4'wx2'h with an 18"hx12"w entrance at one end and the entire roof will be...

I have a Sulcata and I have noticed these weeds popping up in my back yard in NE Florida. I just want to make sure they are safe for my tortoise to eat if it comes across one. I have looked on the tortoise table, but I'm not the best at decided which one it looks like the most haha.

With it being the fall we have a few pumpkins now as decorations in front of our home. Would there be any problem with feeding some of the pumpkin to my sulcata or is it a special kind of pumpkin that they eat? I figure it would be a better way to get rid of the pumpkin instead of just throwing...

I've been on and off of TF a lot in the past year and half. Being in the military it's hard to keep up with everything all of the time, but now being back and things slowing down I can focus more on caring for my tortoise. I recently posted about building a night box for my tortoise with the...

This summer I moved my year and a half old Sulcata outside for more space. I live in North East Florida so it's getting to the time or year where I either need to move her back inside or Make something more permanent outside that can still be suitable as far as temperature and humidity. I have...

Hello, I have a year and a half old Sulcata who is about 5-6 inches. I am currently deployed and my wife has been caring for him while I've been gone so I don't know exactly how big he is, but I do know that he is rapidly outgrowing the indoor enclosure we have for him. When I return home I plan...

Today my sulcata Bowser is 6 months old. When I first got him he was 2 1/4 inches SCL and weighed 48 grams. Today he is just over 3 1/5 inches SCL and 146 grams. He also just moved into a new closed chamber twice the size of his old one this weekend. Its two stories with a ramp going up and down...

Here is the new closed chamber I built for my tortoise. It started as a shelf that went wrong because I'm by no means a carpenter. Haha. Hopefully my tortoise will use the ramp. I've seen plenty of other enclosures on here like that so I hope it works. I also decided to invest in a nursery...

I just built a two story enclosure for my tortoise and I an getting a humidifier to attach to keep the humidity up. I'm trying to figure out how to connect it but I can't think of any good ideas so I figured maybe you guys my have some. It has two outlets so I'm going to have one supplying the...

So I just moved to a house with a yard that needs major work. In order to fix it we have to kill pretty much everything growing so we've sprayed spectracide weed and grass killer. How long until It would be okay to let my tortoise out in the yard ? I don't want anything to happen to him. The...

Bowser will be 4 months old on may 20th so I just wanna see how you all think I'm doing. When I got him he was 2 1/4 inches SCL and 48 grams and now he's just over 3 inches and today weighs 94 grams. He lives in an enclosure maintained at now lower than 80% humidity. Normally around 85%. I mist...

I want to start feeding dandelion but I don't want to grow them outside out of fear that it'll spread throughout the yard and also it doesn't grow much around me. Is there a good supplier to buy dandelions or dried dandelion that I could use to feed my tortoise.

When I first got him I thought he was dead when I saw him like this. Now I think he looks so funny

My wife and I are about to move to a new house where I plan on building an outdoor area for my sulcata to spend the days getting natural heat and light and brought in at night because he's still young. He's a little over 3" now at almost 4 months old. Would it be safe to leave him outside in an...

I'm just wondering what everyone thinks about regular check ups for your tort. I've read a lot of posts about people who take their tort to the vet every so often for a check up. Does everyone think this is necessary? If so how often do you think it should be done? One thing that comes to my...

My sulcata has been getting darker on his head. It's not red it's like a brown color. He used to be tan now he's gotten to a medium brown color on his head. The only thing that has changed was me changing his substrate a few weeks ago from half fine half course coco coir to all fine coco coir...

He's now two months and 19 days old. He's 2.75 inches SCL weighs 72.5 grams. He's growing so fast it's crazy. I thought I wouldn't be able to see a noticeable difference in a while, but you can definitely see growth in between scutes and tracking SCL and weight show's a lot too. It seems like...

Lately my sulcata has been having very large poops. He is 2 3/4 inches SCL maybe a bit longer and his poops have been just as long if not bigger? Is that alright? I figure better to poop a lot than not at all.

I've had my tortoise for 2 months now. He's only 2.5 months old. I handle him I'd say a normal amount. I feed him, soak him, take him outside, clean his enclosure. So I interact with him often, but I try not to do it too much because I know they're solitary. What's weird to me is people talk...