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  1. kbarj

    Wrong food

    I accidentally ordered a big bag of Mazuri Forest and tropical species for my 50lb sulcata. Will it hurt her? Can I get away with feeding it to her if I go back to the desert tortoise food when it’s gone or should I just take the $50 loss?
  2. kbarj

    Propane heat

    I got an insulated truck body with an aluminum floor. It used to have a refrigeration unit on it, so is well insulated on all sides. Side doors and full back door. It will be my 50lb sulcata winter home. It’s 24’ long and I can put a partition in so as not to heat the whole thing. I intend on...
  3. kbarj

    Winter appetite

    I Have a 40 pound sulcata. We live just south of Kansas City. in summer she is outside 24/7 in a 10x10 pen I move around as the grass gets eaten down. An upside down dog house bottom provides a house and shelter. In winter she goes in her indoor house. It is a3x6 galvanized box that is then...
  4. kbarj

    Runt

    This little thing is not gwing. Got her in Sept. '14 as a hatchling. last summer tried to put her outside daily to eat grass, dandelions, clover, henbit. (I put her in a dog x-pen and the kid that cuts my grass didn't know she was there and picked up the pen and mowed. I looked all over even...
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    dirty back

    I'm a fairly new tort owner. My sulcata, about 9", 4lbs, started having substrate on her back. At first I thought she had fallen upside down. Is it common for them to fling it up there? I just made an indoor enclosure in the basement, it is 4x8 and about 2/3 sphagnum and 1/3 coarse coconut...
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    Help a first timer please.

    I have a leopard 3" and a sulcata 10". They go outside in the daytime and in at night. Summer is fine but I must get an indoor enclosure ready as it is getting down to 50s at night now. The little one, Fritz, is easy but the bigger one, Rover, Land Rover that is, is the problem. I need to...
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