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Does anyone know where I can but a radiant heat panel suitable for installing into a large Animal Plastics cage?

I have a female adult redfoot that I've raised from a hatching. She is 6 years old, 13 inches long and weighs 12 pounds. Recently we've been noticing that the top of her head is looking dry. She is soaked 3x per week, is misted daily and has a humidifier we run in her room to keep the humidity...

Over the last few days we've been noticing a swelling on the side of our tortoises neck. She got into a dish of dry dog food the other day and we think she ate quite a bit before we noticed it. She pushes the dish down with her neck to eat out of the bowl so I don't know if it's possible for...

Hi everyone, Our Redfoot is doing great...grown alot since my last post. Weighs about 10lbs and is 13inches long... so far I've always thought Turtie (his name ) is a male but I thought I would let the experts help figure this out ... recently there has been some digging going on in the...

I'm reading things that say to only feed every other day. I have been feeding every day. Also what are the correct quantities to feed now that he's older. I have been letting him eat as much as he wants. He eats greens ( spring mix, arugula, dandelion greens and collard greens in a mix) daily...

Heres a picture of my 20 month old redfoot named turtie. He wighs a little over 1 pound and is a little bigger than my hand.

I work at petsmart and try to make sure the tortoises at my store are taken care of as well as i can considering the limitations that there are at these type of places (pet stores). I have a red foot but right now we just got two small 4" hermans tortoises. What is a proper diet for them?

Hi everyone! You have all helped me before with the trials and tribulations of raising a hatchling redfoot. Turtie is now 16 months old and is still having problems pooping. He had a run in with a vet about 3 months ago and thats when this all started. He was pooping daily and then the vet dosed...

My year old red foots lower jaw has been growing more than his upper jaw. Its just a slight difference, but its noticeable. At first I thought he had moth rot but new vet says no. Recommendation was to up his calcium from a large pinch twice a week mixed into a favorite food to three times a...

I have a year old red foot tortoise that I've had since he was three moths old. I recently noticed that his mouth was very slightly open. There was also some brown dry matter on his upper "lip". Any ideas as to what this might be? I weigh him weekly and he was gaining about 5-10 grams a week...

My 8 month old red foot has developed a dark area in the middle of the bottom of his shell. Is this the beginning of shell rot?

My eight month old red footed tortoise has been recovering from a respiratory infection that occurred at the end of May. He wasn't eating well for a while but his appetite gradually picked up over the last couple months. in the last month he had been gaining about 4 grams of weight a week. I...

I fed my six month old red foote tortoise a bite of ground sirloin ( the leanest beef) and now he hasn't really done a good poop in a couple days. He also is not eating well. Did I get him sick? Any remedies?

My baby 5 month old re fooot is recovering from a respiratory infection and is turning into a very picky eater. He will eat nothing but squash and then nothing but a tomatoe piece and a sweet potato, etc. any ideas? He has stopped eating greens

I have a 5 month old baby red foot who has an upper respiratory problem. I bought him when he was three months old. I took it to the vet last Saturday and they found out he had parasites that caused him to become debilitated and subsequently caused an upper respiratory infection. He was put on...