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Last week I noticed my 1 1/2 year old sulcata was having trouble pooping, not being able to poop at all. What she's done is taking a liking to her cypress mulch. She likes to eat it.... Anyways, I left out of town and had someone feed her and soak her but she wasn't eating at all and when I got...

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Just curiouse as to how many of us "tuck" our torts to sleep.....:D What I mean is I'll check on Terra before I go to bed and I might scoot her over to a nice warm spot, or I may scoot some moss against her, or put some on top of her, and maybe even tell her good night in a soft voice.

I came home and found Terra PASSED OUT on her, what I call her, "Terra-Pedic" bed. She reminded me of a little baby passed out after a long day. You really can't tell by the pictures but she's got herself positioned perfectly as if she was on a cloud of air, so beautiful. I had to wake her up...

I know how we love poop pics, I was very impressed with these. They came from within 5 minutes of eachother. NOTE: When Terra poops in her bath water I take it out so that she doesn't get it all over herself, these are not the same poops, but two different poops, all in the same "sitting". I...

I was thinking about taking "Terra the Tortoise" to the vet for a routine checkup. She's only roughly 2 1/2 months old and is showing nothing but(knock on wood) signs of great health and growth. However, I'd like to take her in to get blood and fecal tests and any other things that they may...

She does this everytime, she seeks out the oak leaves and then eats the rest, funny to watch. View My Video

I went to Petco today to get a second heater for Terra when I see this poor looking tortoise..... It ended up being about a 7"-8" Russian. It was in the corner laying still, had swollen eyes, and lifeless looking. I put my hand to the side of the glass tank and it was ice cold, I looked for any...

First pic, she was 1 month old(April 25th), next pic is today(May 26th), two months and one day old. [/img] [/img]

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Just wanted some expert opinions, she's just over 2 months old. I'm not exactly sure what a proper shell should look like so I decided to take some pics and see what ya'll(yes, I'm from texas) think. To me, it looks perfect, but like I said, I have no idea what a healthy developing shell should...

I have a house out in Matagorda Bay, Texas that I'll be going to for memorial day weekend. I'll be taking, Terra, my baby sulcata with me. I'm about 50yrds from the saltwater, was just wondering if the salt water air was going to be anything for me to worry about? She will be staying indoors...

Slammed on the brakes and stopped traffic on a one way, one lane road to run across the road and pick dandylions for your tort?

I was just curiouse as to if there are any local meets that take place.... Seems like it would be fun to get a bunch of tort lovers together for BBQ's and what not. I'd love to be able to take a first hand look at other people's habitats and torts, I'd imagine it would have to be very...

I noticed yesterday that my baby sulcata, Terra, has grown suprisingly fast, I don't have a scale to weight her/him, but the size difference is obviously there. "She" now eats 3-4 times a day, 3-4oz of spring mix a week! The first photo is of her on the 25th of April, the second photo is her...

Just wondering if I should limit the amount of food my baby sulcata eats. Typically, it gets fed twice a day, but this weekend I fed him pretty much all he wants.... He pooped 3 times today, good poops by the way, and still eats what I put out there. All he does is eat and poop:D [hr] Oh...

At what point to male sulcata's become agressive to eachother? I'm seriously considering getting another sulcata, or a leopard, but I'd hate to come home and find the other beat up or even worse, dead. My sulcata is only a month and a half old so I have no idea what the sex of it is. Thanks...

My local store was out of ReadyPac so I went with central market brand organic spring mix. I picked out all of the identifiable spinach, but I kept coming across this one particular leaf, it tastes a lot like spinach, but doesn't look like it. I think it's either a beet top or Red Chard, can...

Does eye sight in sulcata tortoise's improve as they get older? Another thread struck my curiosity, but the thread wasn't directly aimed at this topic. The reason I ask is because my baby sulcata seems to act like he can't see very well, running into things all the time and cant see things that...

So, my baby's 4th day home... I return to the house from work, first thing I do is check on my tort, I find it upside down under the hottest part of his enclosure. Thankfully, it was perfectly fine and had a shell temp of 101.7, obviously, he had been like this for a while. Anyways, I flipped...