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Just wanted to give an update. Ella has been adopted out to a great new family!

I am not.

I bought, Ella, a Hermanns tortoise, back in Dec. 2016, shes about 5" long now. I bought her thinking we were going to be moving within a year or so, but plans have changed. As of this year, she has started to be very active, which is awesome. Due to her new active self and us not moving soon, I...

Oh ok. Maybe its just my connection, I will have to log on at home tonight and check it out.

Thank you for the update and research! Are the pictures loaded in? They wouldn't load for me.

Ella actually woke up this past Saturday by her self! It was almost a month to the day she had been brumating. This being the first time shes brumated with me, it was like seeing a lost pet when I found her awake. After soaking in water for a while she did take a dump, which means she did...

I am thinking about building a new enclosure for Ella. I am thinking about building a closed top enclosure this time and I want the top to be clear. What material should I use as the cover? Should it be a solid piece or should it have holes drilled in?

I would like to know what plant that is as well!

Do you think I should just leave her be then, even though I didn't go through the two weeks of no feeding prior? I mean I know she started to eat less and used the bathroom some before burrowing in. But I can't say for a fact that she had an empty stomach...

So I am in need of some FRIENDLY advice. I didn't realize that there is a whole process before letting your tort hibernate. Ella started her own process around Christmas and has been in her den (indoor enclosure) since . She started to eat less, sleep for an entire day, wake up to eat a little...

So I thought i made a great find at Central Market a while back ago...Ella never ate one. I finally smelled the flowers for myself and they don't even smell like flowers. Maybe your torts would like them, but mine didn't and I know she loves fresh flowers. I don't remember the price being that...

Cleburne, Texas! (its near Fort Worth)

Is your tort small? maybe wait till its bigger. And my tort ate a small snake skeleton...not sure if that beats poop though haha

I would like to think they can dream. Other than flying or moving fast what else could they be dreaming about that they don't already do (other than nightmares). Getting up whenever you feel like it, having food provided for you, laying out in the sun, soaking/swimming in some water, lol. But...

Sometimes when I work from home during the week, I get to see Ella while she's up. My wife and I get cracked up when Ella is restless, because she can't decide what she wants to do. You will watch her go to her room, then a little while later she will be walking to another area where she sleeps...

I've owned my Hermanns, Ella, for basically 7 months now. Ella being my first Tort, I've observed her during the winter and now going into the summer months. I bought Ella from Petsmart, so I didn't have the pleasure of raising her from a hatchling. I know Hermanns are not the most active Torts...

I love both... but! About ten years ago I "fostered" an Eastern Painted Turtle, named Bob. Bob would swim to one side where the water pump was, stop swimming and let the "current" float him across the tank, swim to the pump, float back, swim to the pump, float back....he was fun. I had a pair of...

I wish more people knew the difference between a Turtle and Tortoise. The most my tortoise does in water besides drinking it, is soaking and going to the restroom in it. I'm always correcting my friends/family when they say turtle haha

When we first got Ella, she would never eat carrots. We didn't feed them to her for a couple months and now she loves them. So after this weekend, I put the cuttlebone in her enclosure, maybe she will eat it now haha

Well the berries are outside when she is taking a "walk" longer than what her enclosure can do for her. But i don't let her near the berries anymore, after I realized. I used to have a cuttle bone in her enclosure, but she never touched it, so I ground it up to a powder and I will put it on...