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[/IMG] Hoffy has been eating only grass, succulents, and other backyard goodies for quite awhile now, and I know others are proud of their tortoise poops, so I wanted to see if I had good ones too!:p:p

I know I was just bragging about him eating everything from the garden now, but it's going to be hot soon and some of his fave foods will not be growing in this heat. His cactus and grass will be around still, mabe that's enough? So researching the Timothy hay, or the hay the sell at pet stores...

So I generally pick little guy up and carry him up on the patio to roam around, and have a grape leaf snack, once in the morning. I put him on my lap, and scratch his neck, and in where his legs meet the rest of his body. Scratch his head, scrub gently with an old toothbrush on his shell, and...

It's coming up on a year that I've had my little Sully, and I'm finally done feeding him anything that came from the grocery store. Yay! Little victories...little victories. I rather enjoyed hand feeding him pieces of squash and dark greens, but over the past few months I was determined to get...

I've been looking and am not doing it right or am overlooking the information, so please humor me. :D Have a friend whose sulcata tortoises started mating about two months ago, seems like the last time was about a month ago. Now the female is running around and is almost frantic at times. No...

So I didn't get to build the enclosure I wanted to with a heating element, and tunnels, other stuff got in the way and now I won't be able to tackle that project for a few months. In the meantime, I have done the following and want your opinion as to whether it will be good enough for the next...

I don't want to seem argumentative, and perhaps I'm just not paying enough attention to the threads about it, but in researching sulcata natural environments, I'm literally in the desert too. It's going to get cool soon, and his pen is half shade half bright sun all day, he can choose where he...

After previously existing on lettuce and an occasional tomato here and there for the first (estimated) year of his little Sulcata life (previous owners I rescued him from), I'm happy to report the following: He happily munched on cactus pad today! Score one for the little guy, and one for me...

I was wondering, since this is commercially available, would it be realistic to dry my own weeds, flowers, grasses for later rehydration to feed with? We only have about half a year when weeds and other plants will grow abundantly, the rest of the year it is too hot for most plants that aren't...

Specifically tortoise owners in Southwestern Arizona, is there anything special I need to do for my outdoor habitat, before it starts cooling down for the winter? It does not freeze here, although it can get cold at night. Should I dig a deeper burrow for my six inch Sulcata, or let him figure...

This would be my idea of the perfect pen/habitat. I am just smitten by this particular picture, I see it on Google when I look for ideas for my Sulcata. Maybe this belongs to another Arizona tortoise owner, judging by the cacti in the middle of the pen? A member here? Anyways, anybody have good...

Greetings from sunny southwest Arizona! I have read many threads here, while doing research on a tortoise I inherited a couple of months ago. Seems just about any question asked about tortoises on Google, directs a person here. :) This is Hoffman, I've been told he is a Sulcata. I have no...