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Has anybody tried using tortoise poop for vermicasting? What are your experiences? How long do you age the tortoise poop? Do you mix anything else? Is the output any good? Thanks! :D

Hi, I actually have 2 questions, but I'll separate them into two threads. Background: After 2 years of raising sulcata hatchlings and 1 year of raising indian star hatchlings, my wife and I have finally got our first Aldabra hatchling. We got ours just yesterday :) Needless to say, we're very...

Hi, I actually have 2 questions, but I'll separate them into two threads. Background: After 2 years of raising sulcata hatchlings and 1 year of raising indian star hatchlings, my wife and I have finally got our first Aldabra hatchling. We got ours just yesterday :) Needless to say, we're very...

Or maybe they are clover? I dont know :) hehe These are some newly sprouted weeds in our yard here in the Philippines. These probably came from bird droppings or something. Can anybody id them? :) I dont know what they are, but im pretty sure that these are the types of weeds my tortoises...

Hi all, Who knows what's the dimensions (length x width x height) of a Mazuri Tortoise Diet (25 lbs) bag? Im curious because i want to buy one and get it shipped to my country but Im not sure how big of a box I should get for that :) Thanks, Franz

Hi All, Prior to acquiring my indian stars, I did some research. Seems like they're not the burrowing type like sulcatas. However, what I noticed after getting them is that they'd still try to burrow. They may not be as efficient as the sulcatas and they may not try to burrow by digging with...

Hi All, I just wanted to share our tortoise family. https://www.facebook.com/iseetort/ We have 2 sulcatas - Fanta and Curtis, and 4 indian star tortoises - Ecsta, Choo, Lei and AB :) Here's the whole creep: (Left-to-right: Ecsta, Fanta, Curtis, Lei, Choo and AB) I just posts random...

Hi All, Prior to owning my indian stars, I did a bit of research - diet, husbandry, etc. On the diet side, it seems like your typical desert/grassland tortoise - mainly grass. However, I noticed two of my indian stars have started to have a liking towards snails and millipedes. If they can...

Hi All, As a general rule of thumb, I know that tortoises can't be sexed until a certain size. However, I stumbled upon this while I was searching the net on how to sex indian star tortoises : http://www.chelonia.org/sexing/sexing_Geochelone_elegans.htm It seems to indicate that even at a...

Good day, I'm currently at work and my wife called me up because our yearling sulcata got his left eye irritated and it's now swollen. He got it while roaming around in our yard (note: we let them out every day and bring them back into their enclosure afterwards). It's already past 6pm where I...

Good day, I have an injured/sick baby tortoise [1] and one of the things that was raised as a possibility to his condition was ant bite. Assuming it is ant bite, how do you treat an ant bite on a tortoise? - especially on a baby that's just 42g and 5.2cm long? I did a little research on how to...

Good day, Ecsta, our little indian star tortoise, is injured :( We don't know what happened, but we found him this morning with a stiff front right leg and a stiff neck (angled to the left). When we soaked Ecsta, he couldn't use his front right leg to bring his head above the water :( So we...

Hi All, [SHORT STORY] I'm collecting tortoise growth charts and I'm collating them here : http://bit.ly/tortoise-growth-charts Feel free to check it out and see how others are doing :) Also, if you're tracking or you've tracked your tortoise's growth in the past, I would like to request to get...

Good day, I've heard (from a different forum) that protein can cause sulcatas to grow faster. And with that, adding mazzuri to their diet can provide them this needed protein (among other nutrients). But I'm just curious, in the wild though, what would their main source of protein be? Where do...

One of the things I learned as a new tortoise owner is to give your torts options so that they can pick for themselves. With that, we rearranged our enclosures contents to provide that to our two sulcata hatchlings. [Info on the enclosure setup] We have 2 100w CHEs - one in the middle, another...

Hi All, I just bought 2lbs of grazing grass mix from Carolina Pet Supply. I live in a country though were getting them is pretty difficult so i would like to maximize this because I cant treat it just like any consumable. We have two sulcata hatchlings, each not more than 150g. We have about...

Good day, One of the recommendations I hear about hatchling is daily soaking in warm water for about 10-30minutes as this prevents dehydration. But is it possible to over do it? For example, I have two sulcata hatchlings and we soak them every morning (1st soak). Then, we let them graze in...

Good day, Can anybody point me to a good tutorial how to remove the hard part of a cuttlebone? :) Preferably with video :) Thanks, Allan

Good day, My wife just bought 3 cacti from the market place. I'm now planning to grow a little cactus garden. But I'm curious, which among these can be fed to our sulcatas? :-) Candidate#1: Candidate#2: Candidate#3: Thanks, Franz See

Good day, We have two 5-month old sulcatas. We're planning to feed them cuttlebones for calcium. How should cuttlebones be fed to baby sulcatas? Do we leave the whole thing there? Chop it down to bit sizes? Scrape it and create 'calcium powders'? Thanks, Franz See