Thank you all for your input, i'll try to get him more humid, along with even more regular bath's to keep his shell hydrated!
he has constant access to a uvb bulb and a varied diet of the recommended greens / leaves and multi vitamin calcium powder.
i realise its "minimal" pyramiding, he had...
it was just the last picture really, how it goes from a slope into a sort of "dome" at the top. He was rather round as a baby and i guess its just how he's growing.
being our first tortoise and reading so much about MBD with poor care, i wanted to make sure we were going down the right path. :P...
Thank you, we kept testing and changing things based on how he reacted to placements of items.
We at first had a rubbish substrate that came with the table (that white stuff you see in the first photos) we quickly changed to a top soil that he much prefers and can dig into at pleasure.
every...
I honestly never thought i could love something like a tortoise as much as i do! He's got such a little personality and it's all down to my wife and her 10 years of "pestering" for a tortoise! I thought i'd share a few snaps of him with you all, as well as take this as a chance for a "review" of...
Yeah I figured it was a ball park figure, I'll see if I can get hold of a proper meter and mount the light at the right hight. Thanks for all the advice.
Thank you, I'll get the uv checked asap. Its been this high for 3 years, hope its not been too close to cause any damage to his eyes or skin! I think I'm just over analysing how he walks. How much uv on a reader should he be getting from the bulb?
We are upgrading his enclosure as he grows, he was 5 week old when we got him at 22grams. Now as a 3 yr old and 130 grams we can see he'll need a bigger space soon. he roams around and climbs all day long. He poops / wees and urates daily in his enclosure or bath. Bath time is usually 2-3 times...
In the uk, and he gets out a few times a week in the hotter months. March to august usually.
his uv lamp is http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/371651328998?clk_rvr_id=1552540443604&vectorid=229508&lgeo=1&item=371651328998&rmvSB=true
this one. and mounted around 8-9 inch above the soil. his enclosure...
Hi guys/ gals.
Can someone please take a look at George and how he walks. I've noticed that when he's outside, he tends to prefer to... be lazy and not really raise himself off the floor. he's not a dragging of his back legs as he does use them to move forwards.
While hes inside, he's constantly...
For the last few days now, we noticed that George wasn't opening his left eye, We naturally gave him a bath and he sure enough opened it. However it looks more sunken than his left and his eye lid looks as though he has damaged it?
Each day the same, he doesn't open it until we bath him. A few...
This is the second time he has had this. the first time we thought it was a cut that was healing as a scab. it looks more like a loose scale, that he has caught with his claw when eating.. or a sort of growth of skin.
It did impede how he opened his mouth as when it is dry, it was probably...
Unless he/she is doing his own thing and left to its own devices, it probably has some level of fear involved.
Pulling heads inside shells is a natural response to anything coming close that could be a threat, this normally lasts a few seconds before it deems whatever caused him to do it to be a...