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I find my infrared thermometer to be useful in telling me the temp.. Of my tortoise and the different spots in there enclosure. I would get some sphagnum moss and put some of that over you coir I have found my red foots love to burrow on it and holds moisture. Usually get it at lowes in garden...

Very pretty snake never saw one. What states are they found in?

The styrofoam I use is white in color and can buy it at Home Depot, lowes or other home improvement stores you can get a 4'x8' sheet or buy a pack of 2' x3' . It is the same material that styrofoam cups are made out of.. It cuts Easily using a razor knife and straight edge.

If you are heating the inside of tank I would suggest insulating your tank by getting a sheet of 1/2 inch styrofoam cutting it to fit outside of tank and over your construction paper and use rubberbands hooked together to make one long one and use it to hold the styrofoam against tank. I use a...

Look forward of seeing the hatchlings.

They are very comical also escape artists top of enclosures must be closed enough so they can't escape will dehydrate if out of water for to long. they were used for pregnancy test years ago and in some states illegal to have cause when released into the wild they have gobbled up native frogs...

Your tortoise looks nice. My daughter lives 1 block from AJ. I would like her to have a few of my red foots but have not got them out there yet my main concern for the red foots would be lack of humidity.

I have got mine at Menards, They are based out of WI so hopefully they are in your area.

in summer I am able to go out and collect food for my red foots, which include dandelions, mulberry leaves, hibiscus leaves and flowers also plantain. a lot of that will depend on what grows in your area. in winter I now got to grocery store and get endive and escarole, I also will buy...

I have had good luck with strawberry's and a little mazuri tortoise diet soaked the pellet till it is soft and finely cut up the strawberry and mix together, Your red foot should go for that.

well thought out and very nice enclosure you have made. Your sulcata should love it.

neighbor had a rat digging a hole a month ago next to his house. He was setting out bird seed and bread pieces for the birds and am thinking that is what attracted the rat. he finally caught it with a rat sticky trap. He had no luck with a havahart live trap or snap trap. Rats are known to...

The tortoises I have that have grown the fastest have the most pyramiding. So I feel that faster growth could lead to it.

might want to find out is that number for a household or person. If per person I would assume that everyone in your household could have two. hopefully you have a large family. Please post on what you find out.

very nice looking red foot you must be doing a good job but if that is iceberg lettuce (head lettuce) you will be getting a lecture by other members on how it is not nutritious. I give my red foots endive and escarole and sometimes some Romain lettuce. So I guess I beat them to it. ha ha. Now

does your red foot have something abrasive in its enclosure were it could be rubbing against? thinking like concrete or paving stones

Poison ivy is so common in our area than it was years ago. In places the river bank is covered in it. It thrives more with co2 which we have more of now and the increase of co2 has been associated with global warming. Also dandelions do much better with the increase.

Brookfield Zoo use to have a large reptile house and was pretty impressive. They have since did away with it and was told that they were going to put reptiles in the exhibit area were they came from, for instance pancake, leopard, sulcatas in the area were african animals were on display. I...

Looks like a dobson fly. They live in water and believe they like moving water rather than a pond or lake and are called hellgrammite before they leave the water and develop wings. They demand clean water and was told that there numbers declined by the use of DDT in the late 50s early 60s...

When we went on vacation to AZ a few months ago I purchased a foscam camera, I have an Iphone and could check on my hatchlings whenever I wanted when gone thru my phone. Might be an option that you may want to consider. If something didn't look right I would have called a neighbor to come...