I just picked up this girl(so I was told) last night from a neighbor. She said the tortoise is about 2 yrs old. The pyramiding is pretty bad (she was kept in a gerbil cage). I have her now in a closed chamber enclosure but do you think it’s going to help stop it from getting any worse? Also...
Morning, my hatchling 'Taco' is doing well in his/her brooder box and I'm still working on tweaking his next enclosure. I want to ask for suggestions on temps.
The basking side is running 93-96 and 60% humid
The humid hide is running 77-83 and 99% humid. Do I need another heat source on...
Guess who decided to make a visit! I'm so excited to introduce my first hatched Russian tortoise baby, Taco!
Any suggestions for a new hatching mom for the first few days of life? His/her forever home is set and waiting...
What's the longest your russian eggs have inqubated? I have one egg at 154 days and I just don't know what to think. Here's two images of the same egg taken about 3 weeks apart. Any suggestions?
My sister just took in this little rescue and we were looking for an identification for this poor little dude. It looks like he's got MBD, what do you all think?
So I am besides myself right now trying to figure out how to handle this. My Lola is missing and I am 99.8% sure she was stollen but I can't prove it.
Last week we had our fence replaced and had workers here all week. Each day I take my Russians out side to hang out and bring them in at...
For now we will call it a her until told otherwise and we have yet to name it, but this is my new little friend. A gift from my sister. She is 1.5 years old and today weighed in at 48grams. This is her her setup, please let me know if I need to change anything since I am new to turtles.
It's a...
My larger female Russian has bitten my younger female pretty badly about 3 weeks ago. I have been soaking the younger girl and keeping an eye on the wound. It scabed over and has looked like it was healing ok. Yesterday I noticed it looked a little swollen and today it looks terriable. Along...
My male Russian went missing about 2 1/2 months ago, we have searched everywhere! My female had knocked down a board in the fencw and had gotten out, but she is big enough to spot right away, he is much smaller and there was no sign of him at all. We searched every day for a month and found...
So we had a large party here last weekend and as a result I have egg shells all over my yard and I mean all over. I have been out of town a few days so today I am out cleaning up. I have both my Russians out enjoying the day with me. I noticed my female is eating the egg shells. I took it away...
I had a large party here Saturday so I brought both my male and female Russians inside for safe keeping. They were both inside their enclosures and I had a simple wire lock on both. I thought that with the sign saying please do not touch would be enough. I was wrong. At some point in the...
It was a crazy hectic day but I had a few mins to take some pictures. Thought this one came out cute. This is my little Lola. :tort: Trying to act like a big girl. :)