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I try to post 3 month updates on Bixi, but it has been a while! I think it is about 6 months since my last update post. Bixi is doing great, and her shell growth is consistent (if not perfectly smooth). I have been working a lot with her this summer. She knows that "Come'ere" (ie. "Come...

1yr old sulcata. I still can't get the pyramiding under control with humidity, a mix of grass and zoomed grassland diet and romaine lettuce, zoomed calcium D3 supplement, a cuttlefish bone, out-of-cage soaking, a walk-in water bowl, proper UVB, 2 heat sources, and plenty of living space. I have...

Sorry, I love her too much, and I take too many pictures! Bixi looked so happy and so pretty on her grass mat earlier today that I had to take a pic... and I had to stick it on the forums. My pretty girl is just sunning and enjoying her warmth.. Mmmm, so snugly warm during this cold front...

She gets thawed pumpkin leftover from halloween as a treat. i got Bixi in mid-January of last year, and she was obviously only a few weeks old when i got her, so i have designated early January as her birthday time! She is still growing nicely and not too fast. She seems super healthy, and she...

Bixi is still doing well. I have been trying to interact with her more and more recently. After her illness she became very shy (probably because of receiving shots). I have been handling her, letting her go on walks, and soak in the bathtub more frequently. I am trying to associate my voice...

It is true what they say about torts loving pumpkin! This was Bixi's first Halloween (born January 2017) and she took to pumpkin like a boss! I have not seen her eat as ravenously as she did when she first tried pumpkin a few days ago. She was chomping at a very high rate. I gave both 6...

Hey guys, Bixi is my young Sulcata Tortoise. I did a 6 month update, so I figured a 9 month update was in order. Bixi is happy and is completely over her respiratory issues. I have started taking her outside to get her natural sun and some food variety. I am beginning to think that...

Hey guys, Here are pics of Bixi: http://imgur.com/a/jfuOS Bixi is a ~6 month old Sulcata (as of 6/27/17) and her food intake has increased by almost double recently. I moved her into a much larger enclosure a few weeks ago, and she finished her last dose of antibiotics for a respiratory...

Hey guys, I have a ~6 month old Sulcata and I recently moved her into a new, better, larger enclosure. Ever since she has been in her new enclosure her food consumption has roughly doubled (or more). She isn't currently growing much faster than before, and from the Sulcata growth charts...

Hello everyone, Bixi is my ~5 month old Sulcata. I have other posts about her on the forum (with her name in the post title), if you want to check her out. Here is the album of pics for Bixi's new habitat. http://imgur.com/a/wmnl5 I converted an old 75 gallon aquarium-stand into a...

It was a dark and stormy night.... but no really... It was cool outside, and a storm rolled through and knocked the power out. The power was going to be out for at least 24 hours. My tortoise was getting cold... I slept on my back with my tortoise on my chest, under the blankets, and she was...

Bixi is looking good and doing pretty well. She is almost exactly 3.5inches. I haven't posted any new pics. Her old album is here http://imgur.com/a/47ubH She is still recieving 0.02ml of Ceftazidime every 3 days for her R.I. that showed up back on 3/22/17. They gave me a ton of syringes...

Hi, My name is Burke (Bixi is the Sulcata tortoise). I am 32yrs old, married, and I live in East Tennessee. I have kept a lot of snakes/lizards/amphibians over the years (including a mississippi map turtle for 16yrs), but I have never had a tortoise. I came to East TN in 2007 for college...