Thank you! I honestly trust the advice given here the best , which is why before I changed what I was doing I posted here. My tortoise is super happy, healthy, and insanely active. We are working on getting him a bigger indoor enclosure built for winter. I have left on fb group and the...
Thank you everyone. I feel better about it all. My husband and have been talking about getting a bigger enclosure built soon since out door temps have been gradually dropping.
My Lil guy is growing super fast. 2 things.. I wonder if he is over eating? His enclosure is always humid.. he gets one soak a day. Calcium he gnaws on a cuttlefish bone plus get reptical once a week. When weather is nice he spends an hour outside. Lately been rainy here. I am worried...
Yikes! Okay definitely moving things around a bit more. The plants are thyme, sage, dandelion and grass. All came out of my herb garden. Well the grass came from my dad's place. The dandelion I just dug up from my yard. I plan to put more of those in there soon.
Finally started work on our outdoor enclosure for our hatchling. It has a chicken wire lid that latches on top.
Need to add plants and cover. I let him explore while we worked on it. During first half of day it'd all shaded.. second have is pretty sunny. Until evening then shade hits it again.
Yes he is an avid talker and an expert singer. He has been very babied.
He says "Casey is a pretty bird"
"What u doin?"
"I'm an eagle"
He whistles:
Boston priece of mind
the imperial March
Final count down
Adams family
Andy Griffith
Ants go marching
Cat calls
Misc: barks like a dog
This is Casey Jones. He is a 1 year old white faced cockatiel. And he is best friends with my 4 year old. I snapped this picture this morning. I just had to share
I'm a dedicated Chiefs fan. My husband is a Cheesehead. I get so tired of hearing how great Aaron Rodgers is. But other than its kinda nice because at lease we are a house divided in different divisions. I'm not sure I could have married him if he were a Raiders or Bronco fan. If you need...
Okay new light came in and is installed. Since temps weren't staying up I added a lower watt ceramic heat bulb as well. Humidity was only at 50% so I moistened the substrate.. put towel over top and it's gradually rising. Right now up to 70! Lowest temp in enclosure is now 79.9 bhottest is...
@Tom you definitely didn't fail. It was just the timing I found this forum in. :) i am working really hard to improve my sulcata enviroment. I appreciate this forum more then you can believe. I am always given educated answers and swift replies. ☺
I just didn't discover this forum until after I had already started the process of owning my sulcata. I purchase everything from amazon where I can read reviews.
I read the thread when I joined the forum. Which was just the other day. I had already bought the bulbs I have at that point. I got amazon the same day I read I needed the other bulbs and ordered one. It arrives tomorrow. My tort is brand new. He arrived yesterday. So, yeah .. order of...
Also in the middle of the enclosure you see a flat spot. That'd actually a take out dish that I cut an opening and buried it to make a burrow. He slept in there all last night.
Fantastic advice thank you! It is a coil bulb but I ordered a long bulb from amazon it should arrive tomorrow. I have since put a towel over the top and the enclosure is now 84 on the cool side. My tort has also been much more active since doing that. I am having my husband build me a lid...