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Hi, just wanted to post my annual check-in and celebrate the best day of my year: The day when Steve is first sighted after a long (and unusually crazy) Vegas winter!!! Huge and eternal thanks to everyone on here who helped out so much in Steve's first years. Without this forum, and the...

I was just looking (re-looking) through all the different resources for deserts and noticed that, unlike most other species specific forums, there were no general care sheets pinned up top. I may be wrong (happens quite often), but didn't there used to be some? I thought I remembered them being...

Hi! I just wanted to post a quick update after a long period of inactivity (close to a yr I think). Steve the desert tortoise is happy and healthy and spending his 2nd winter indoors. After a smooth summer, Steve has jumped up to over 100 grams and is almost 5 in long (head to tail). His...

Just wondering if anyone had any advice on the proper timing to return Steve the desert tortoise to his outside home? Being as it was our first year with him, we kept him awake and inside this winter. We are in Las Vegas and was wondering if any other Las Vegans had their desert torts awake and...

So after monitoring what we initially hoped to be a mark left from rubbing or minor impact and allowing for time to heal, it looks like Steve's plastron weirdness is some type of fungus. So I read up and figure I will try a course of 1% clotrimazole. My biggest question after reading is there...

For the past 2-3 months, I've peppered the threads with all sorts of posts asking all sorts of questions about how to raise my tortoise Steve properly to give him the best chance of survival. I've changed his substrates, his lighting, his enclosure type, his food and his soaking schedule. I've...

So lately Steve's mouth has looked a bit weird to me so I took a closer look and snapped some photos. Please let me know if I'm just seeing things or if there's something wrong. The area I'm looking at is right in the corner of his mouth (sorry for photo quality, it's hard to get him so close up).

I've noticed a lot of posts recently that advise against feeding torts carrots as they are too high in sugar (i believe the specific recommendations were to feed very little to no carrot). The advice seemed to be coming from good sources so I cut it out of Steve's salad, but out of sheer...

Ok, so I just bought additional prickly pears (indian fig) and a tropical hibiscus for Steve as he was eating his existing ones to the point of no return. Question, the prickly pears didn't show traces of anything in the potting soil they came in but the hibiscus potting soil had the little...

Okay, so here's the latest question that's keeping me up at night: Is it normal for a tortoise to change behavior patterns upon being moved inside for the winter? I ask because I've noticed Steve being less active since moving him inside. Now, granted, his indoor setup is far less exciting than...

This is kind of a better safe than sorry question: Right now I have three palm trees that are bordering the outside of the walls for my tort's summer habitat. While he's inside for the winter, I wanted to expand and improve his summer area a little and my initial plans include moving the walls...

Just want to do some fact checking with some people "in the know": Background: I have a small desert tortoise (Steve) who is somewhere between a hatchling and a yearling. Want to make sure calcium intake is adequate. Facts: Right now he gets a "salad" mix that's made up of grasses (deer and...

(Disclaimer: Not my tort, just a great picture I found online)

Well, it's not the winter villa in the south of France that Steve was hoping for, but since the weather turned real cold, real quick, we thought we'd listen to the overwhelming advice and bring him in for the season. put this together in about 3 hrs. Has both a uvb/heat lamp (for sun simulation...

He's a real little guy (between 2-3 inches) and has yet to enter his 1st hibernation (that I know of). He lives outside in las Vegas in a pretty sweet habitat of grass, gravel and dirt that (aside from the aforementioned grass) has hibiscus and prickly pear for grazing. Because he's so small, I...

2 quick questions about the little guy in the pictures. From what I know he's not yet a full year old yet. He's small like 2-3 inches max. First question is his plaston is very soft on the bottom. I've read that's not uncommon for his age/size, but I want to be sure. 2nd question is as you can...