You are warm, it is a hingeback but not a Homes. So half a point. Lol
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You are warm, it is a hingeback but not a Homes. So half a point. Lol
Yeah. I get worms from tackle shop sometimes. You need to start a wormery up, or a small compost bin that will attract slugs. Go out after dark with torch to collect slugs and snails. Especially when it rains. It's fun, and your neighbours will think your nuts.
I was told that most of the worms that you get at the bait shop are mass-produced and usually fed newspaper. Many people raise worms by feeding them newspaper. I wouldn't want my tortoise or turtle eating newspaper so I would strongly suggest you make up your own worm bin. You can do it easily and cheaply, look online for a bunch of ideas. You can keep it going indoors all winter.
Happy with half point! ! Haha~
I found best way to breed worms is with layers of grass cuttings within the soil. At the minute we just have a mound of cut grass and soil in the corner of our garden out of the way. Plenty of red worms. Torts go mad for them. Turn into ninjas. I've had them jab at my finger as they miss the worms. Good call on newspaper. Never thought of that.
How did you know this was a kbn so easily?
What is in that double light hood? Are you running one of those coil type cfl UV bulbs? Those can damage their eyes. I wouldn't use one. Looks like you got some typical pet store advice.
There is a really good care sheet pinned under the hingebacks section for you species.
Just by looks. There's tiny charactersistics that the other species dont have that tells them apart. Eastern bells are shaped differently, speks are shaped different too and have different heads and are flatter. Mainly the pattern and the plastron.
Erosa and homeana looks different from all other kinixys. Otherwise they could be different to distinguish some times. Spekes and lobatsiana are normally easy to distinguish from the color. And with the old belliana species (zombensis, nougeiy, belliana) they're normally to distinguish in color and size. The shell color of zombensis is really conspicuous and this species normally have a normal size of 22-27cm and they're not so strong.
Belliana belliana has a boring pattern without many conspicuous color on their shell. They're also not the strongest kind of them.
Nougeiy like on your picture often has this brown she'll with some white "points" on it. And you can see that this body is big and strong what is typical for them especially for females.
Hopefully that's enough anyfoot
That's the way I distinguish kinixys kinds
Belliana belliana has a boring pattern without many conspicuous color on their shell. They're also not the strongest kind of them.
Nougeiy like on your picture often has this brown she'll with some white "points" on it. And you can see that this body is big and strong what is typical for them especially for females.
Hopefully that's enough anyfoot
That's the way I distinguish kinixys kinds
Definitely, yes.
Coil bulbs are known to have damaged tortoises eyes, dispose of it at once, even those that aren't harmful seem to produce inadequate UVB.
You can use an MVB (mercury vapour bulb) which provides heat, light and UVB in one, or a strip UVB light and basking bulb.
CHEs (ceramic heat emitters) are especially good for night time use, when linked to a thermostat as it provides the heat, without light as tortoises need darkness to sleep properly.
Coil bulbs are known to have damaged tortoises eyes, dispose of it at once, even those that aren't harmful seem to produce inadequate UVB.
You can use an MVB (mercury vapour bulb) which provides heat, light and UVB in one, or a strip UVB light and basking bulb.
CHEs (ceramic heat emitters) are especially good for night time use, when linked to a thermostat as it provides the heat, without light as tortoises need darkness to sleep properly.
Please take your coil bulb out asap. Bad bulb. Use your CHE on a thermostat for the heat and a low uvb bulb. They don't need a strong uvb. I've got a 10b% uvb but with dappled shade from it. A 5% uvb would do. They don't like very bright lighting.
I'm not certain your 100 watt is a coil bulb. Do you have a picture of the bulb or the box it came in?
100 watts is too many watts to be a compact florescent unless it is proclaiming to be a 100 watt in terms of equal lumens output.
100 watts is too many watts to be a compact florescent unless it is proclaiming to be a 100 watt in terms of equal lumens output.
