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It seems that a rabbit and her babies have once again made a home in Button’s pen. One corner of the enclosure is particularly overgrown, and I was going to take a weed wacker to it, but it looks like they’re all hiding in it. Guess I’ll leave it :) This seems to happen every spring, or at...

I really want pancake tortoises, but I can’t currently have pancake tortoises, so I’m asking questions to keep myself sane. Out of curiosity, how much do they eat compared to most other similarly sized species? My 5 inch Russian will devour a huge pile of food and my sulcata keeps an entire yard...

Does anyone happen to have a scute on hand? One that has fallen off, whether from damage or taken from a dead tortoise. I’m interested in seeing how the growth looks from the bottom where we don’t usually get to see it, and the thickness of it. Is it the same thickness all the way through, or is...

Curtis is healthy and warm, and nothing has happened to either of my tortoises. This is just to have on hand if I need it. I realize that half the time I post it's because something has happened, and I don't want to scare anyone, lol. Some of you may remember the scare I had with Curtis two...

To preface, I have no idea what I'm talking about, and this might be a very long and convoluted post. Please bear with me, I'll get to the point eventually. You could probably skip the first two paragraphs and the rest would still make sense. I've been writing this out over a long period of time...

Hey, guys. Recently I thought Curtis’s plastron was finally concaving, and “he” was displaying some very male-like behavior (mounting a large lump of concrete and visibly (and audibly) trying to mate with it, but there was no flashing so it could have just been territorial or aggression)...

Has anyone else noticed? It's been like this for a while, the list of "Postings" and "All content/threads" Only goes back to October 11th. I also checked on mobile browser and an incognito window as a guest. It's also like this on other member's profiles, and not just my own. No idea if anyone...

Curtis has a bit of an overhang on his left side of his beak. Clip it or leave it? I figure it’s probably fine and it’ll wear down on its own, but I don’t post enough Curtis on here.

Curtis is very difficult to get a grip on nowadays. I can lift his weight, but I am a very small person and Curtis is the size of my entire torso. I usually use the “bear hug” technique and cover myself in mud, but it’s getting hard to do without feeling like I’m dropping him. Is it safe to use...

Hey! I'm putting together a post about cost and space effective tortoise enclosures for adult testudos on reddit, which I may also post here. I am looking for pictures of enclosures that are shaped to continue around corners, like an "L", to maximize space for the tortoise without taking up a...

I am building a new enclosure for my ball python, which will probably be 6 x 2 x 3.5 feet. Still debating the height, but it will be between 3 and 4 feet. I'm running into an issue finding glass or polycarbonate for the sliding doors (Plexiglass is too flexible and he is very good at escaping)...

Every year, the mosquitos swarm Curtis’s yard to the point that it is difficult to go outside for longer than a few minutes, and they swarm all over his face. He doesn’t act like he’s particularly bothered, but they are very clearly trying to bite him. Whether or not they succeed, I’m not sure...

*My dad put a cinder block there for some reason, I moved it so he’d stop scraping the side of his shell on it Hi! I’m back home from college for the weekend, and got to see Curtis for the first time in a month. He’s eating fine, perfectly healthy, generally having a good time. We had a very...

I've been off at college for the past month, and Curtis has been at home under the care of my parents. last time I was able to visit was about 3 weeks ago, and right before I had to leave, I let them know that the ground had shifted and one of the gates to Curtis's yard could no longer be...

Hey! Long time no see :p I’m going off to college soon, and the tortoises are staying home. Button, my Russian, stays outside 8-10 months of the year in his 8x8 outdoor enclosure. In the winter, I keep him in a 28 square foot kiddy pool. However, this gets mulch all over my room and my sister is...

I’m in the process of needle felting my cat, Fluffy, as a cool wizard/druid dude. It was originally meant to become semi realistic, but I accidentally made the armature too small. Should I make a new, proportionally correct armature, or keep it cute and stylized? I can’t decide, and I can’t...

I will forever be amazed at the sheer hardiness of tortoises. In Texas, we’ve been having very cold, frozen weather since Wednesday. It snowed, iced over, and sleeted. Not a problem for a sulcata in a heated and insulated night box. Unfortunately, due to a collection of electrical failures...

Hey, long time no see! I'm sorry for not being too active the last few years, but as it turns out, you get a little more busy after junior high :p I've been trying to finish (and stop procrastinating) my college applications that are due in a few days, and needless to say, some of the short...

My lovely mourning geckos have matured, and are producing offspring! I'm almost sad to sell them, they're so cute :) These are an all female species (excluding the rare case that a male is hatched, which has been recorded) that reproduce asexually. They are one of the few communal reptiles that...

Hey! I took in Button, my Russian tortoise, about a year ago. His beak was pretty overgrown, and I trimmed it down to the best of my ability. Today, I came out and checked on him, and the front of his beak appears to have chipped off vertically. He is still active, and does not appear to have...