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Most of you have probably already seen my post about building a large indoor enclosure for my elongated tortoise, Tulip. But as I have never even had proper lighting or heating to begin with (she came with a 60 watt incandescent bulb) I am not sure how to approach this. My house temperature...

My husband calls this style of carpentry "red neck engineering." It may not look beautiful but it will work. This is in contrast to my own natural style which could be described as "monkey engineering." This means that if it doesn't work out I get angry and hit it and grunt. I have...

OK, back from the dentist. A healthy mouth is a healthy mind. Or something. Back to Saturday...about 10:30 am by this time. I had to gather up my mom and her truck and I prefaced it as, "hey, wanna hang out on my birthday and shop? Yeah....shop at Home Depot." She is only slightly more...

OK! So, as anyone has checked my introduction page has learned, I am the brand new owner of a female elongated tortoise. Her new name (as I had been calling her Franklin before I learned her true sex) is Tulip. Welcome home, Tulip. I have already learned SOOO much from these forums, I have...

Oh, so super cute. I do love the picture of him kind of sitting up with his front legs in his food dish.

Do we need a password to see your photobucket account? Otherwise you can use the code provided by photobucket to post them directly into your posts.

I loved the video. He was just so keen to be with those socked feet. I also like how Speedy comes up behind the dog and the dog turns around like, "what?" and then thinks, "oh, it's just that darn tortoise..." I have one dog that can be in the same room as mine, (with supervision) but I...

Well, we have decided on Tulip as her new name. I wanted something suitably feminine for the little darling. Keep an eye out for my adventures in indoor enclosure building coming soon to the enclosure forum.

Thank you for the welcomes and information from everyone. I took a few pictures of Franklin this afternoon after bath time...and to my uneducated eye I would suspect that Franklin is indeed a female. So Franklin, my dear, I need to re-evaluate how I think about you. I had to laugh because...

Thank you both for your responses. I will get a few pictures of his plastron so I can learn a bit more about him. I guess after so much time calling him him, that I would be a little disappointed to learn he was a girl. And with females, do you have to worry about them becoming egg bound like...

Hello everyone! I am a brand new owner of a tortoise. I am not the original owner so I know less about him (or her) than I would like, but I am willing to learn from here. His original owner had purchased him about 1 year ago. Well, we won't talk about his severe lack of planning but he has...