Kim&Tim
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Yes?????Wait so I’m dumb... is this a digital thermometer ?
Yes?????Wait so I’m dumb... is this a digital thermometer ?
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Thank you for the advice mate. Greatly appreciatedPardon my saying so, but that's a very boring-looking enclosure!
Your new Russian tortoise is pretty young. He's in a new space that's wide open. The safest thing for him to do (in his mind) is to stay hidden in a corner. He's very scared. And you've got him sitting right out in the open where who knows what is going to get him and eat him!
Here are a few suggestions for you:
Remove that substrate and change it to something that can be slightly moistened. I like fir bark.
Add quite a few hiding places - plants (real or fake), a big rock, an inverted pot with a door cut out, a half log that he can get into. If you give him lots of cover he won't be so scared to move out of the corner.
Please read our care sheet and make some changes to the bare space you've given him to live in - https://tortoiseforum.org/threads/b...or-other-herbivorous-tortoise-species.107734/
Here's a picture of what a baby habitat could look like (except the lights should be hung, not set on wire):
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Does he have a hide? Water dish?
i think he just needs some time to settle in maybe calmly handle him help him come out of his shell
I would make his home more exciting like a water bowl and maybe some rocks to crawl around , I had a sulcata and she was spoiled rotten. It was easy because I made her enclosure outside I live in Florida but she loved going under the log and around the rocks and she had a big glass pie pan was her water(pool) she just crawled in and out of that. She even got to push my dog's little tennis balls around. I don't know I just think it would make it more inviting if it had more stuff in it but I don't know I've had one Sulcata in my life.Yeah thank you for your help I have gave him some grape as we have no strawberries
Happy to see this thread. My two I got today were staying in the same spot together for hours. It kept scaring me and I was constantly checking to make sure they were still breathing. They did eat and drink a good amount as soon as I put them in the enclosure but then went under the hibiscus bush and never came out. So I hand fed them some banana (mine are forest tortoises) and that energized them a tiny bit lol one finally moved to another corner under another bush and now its been hours again and neither has moved from their spots. Hoping in a few days they explore a little more I have so many goodies in there they haven't even seen yet.
Hi.. maybe give him a warm bath. That usually wakes them up. ?