TabascoSauce
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Good afternoon everyone, I recent stumbled upon this forum last week after purchasing a pair of baby sulcatas at a pet store here in San Diego. I have to say it was more of an impulse buy, and once I got home and put them in their 20 gallon tank the man at the store sold me, I just kept staring at them and feeling bad that they looked so cooped up and bored, so I got to looking around the internet and found you guys.
First of all, thanks very much for the awesome community you guys have here. The information and tips I've found over the last week have made me feel so much better about keeping these little dudes for a long time to come. Had I done my research prior to buying them, I would've only gotten one and definitely wouldn't have wasted money on the small tank.
Anyways, after having them in that tank for 5 days we took it back to the pet store and I got them a ceramic heating element (100w) and went to home depot to buy the supplies to make them a little 4x4 pen on my outdoor patio. I live about 2 miles from the water, so the breeze and sun is pretty much out all day here and shines directly on the patio from 1-7pm so they're out there all day and I've been moving them to a big rubber bucket I have inside at night just because I think it may be too cold (60 degrees).
The guy at the pet store told me to throw down some topsoil and playground sand for them, since that's how they do it for their big guy at their store (50 year old sulcata) so I did that, but then after coming here I see a lot of people that are anti-sand and now I'm looking for coco coir to put down since nobody here carries cypress mulch (tried 15 places Saturday).
Without further ado, meet Stevie Wonder (5 year old daughter named him) and The Unnamed Turtle (still trying to think of something for this guy).
First of all, thanks very much for the awesome community you guys have here. The information and tips I've found over the last week have made me feel so much better about keeping these little dudes for a long time to come. Had I done my research prior to buying them, I would've only gotten one and definitely wouldn't have wasted money on the small tank.
Anyways, after having them in that tank for 5 days we took it back to the pet store and I got them a ceramic heating element (100w) and went to home depot to buy the supplies to make them a little 4x4 pen on my outdoor patio. I live about 2 miles from the water, so the breeze and sun is pretty much out all day here and shines directly on the patio from 1-7pm so they're out there all day and I've been moving them to a big rubber bucket I have inside at night just because I think it may be too cold (60 degrees).
The guy at the pet store told me to throw down some topsoil and playground sand for them, since that's how they do it for their big guy at their store (50 year old sulcata) so I did that, but then after coming here I see a lot of people that are anti-sand and now I'm looking for coco coir to put down since nobody here carries cypress mulch (tried 15 places Saturday).
Without further ado, meet Stevie Wonder (5 year old daughter named him) and The Unnamed Turtle (still trying to think of something for this guy).
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