It is half and halfin her night enclosure but I'm not sure if it's too fine off wood chipGet some pure cypress mulch or orchid bark
A horsefield, the straw pellets are advertised from komodo and sold as Russian tortoise substrate. I will take a look at the caresheet now, thank you ?Neither of those are suitable substrates for any tortoise species.
What species are we talking about?
Here is the care info, including a paragraph on substrate, for Russians:
The Best Way To Raise Any Temperate Species Of Tortoise
I chose the title of this care sheet very carefully. Are there other ways to raise babies and care for adults? Yes. Yes there are, but those ways are not as good. What follows is the BEST way, according to 30 years of research and experimentation with hundreds of babies of many species. What is...tortoiseforum.org