Greetings from Hong Kong!
This is our first post to introduce ourselves.
Taara, our little princess Indian Star. A friend's neighbour was looking to find a home for her and we adopted her for a couple of months ago. We really enjoy her gentle and mild temparment.
She lives happily on our balcony (5' x 18') and is free to roam around this safe area. She tends to be most active in the morning and in the afternoon. She loves to hide underneath plants and is quite inactive for the most part.
She seems to recognise us and is comfortable when we pick her up. She'd pull her head in instintively but would soon stick her head out to check us out when we pick her up. On occassions, she'd even walk towards us and wait to be fed. She is an absolute darling.
She likes freshly-picked mulberry leaves, clover leaves, choi sum leaves, young stems and flowers (a local leafy green), sweet potato leaves, peas and carrots. I've read somewhere that carrots are good once a week. We are still experiementing with other high fibre vege. She doesn't seem to drink from the water dish at all.
We take her out for walks and soak up some sun when the weather is nice. We have to be very careful where to take her as the park management folks here tend to spray pesticide on grass. :-(
As we are approaching winter, I have been researching on how and where to get supplies to build her an indoor habitat. We want it as natural and organic as possible and sufficient space to move around.
I found posting from Levendis really helpful. I hope we will be able to link up via this forum so that I can find out where to get the really nice looking set up which Levendis has created for the lovely sulcata. The barmuda grass and other home grown vegetables are fantastic.
Hope to hear from fellow members to the Forum on tort care, diet and behaviour.
Cheers,
This is our first post to introduce ourselves.
Taara, our little princess Indian Star. A friend's neighbour was looking to find a home for her and we adopted her for a couple of months ago. We really enjoy her gentle and mild temparment.
She lives happily on our balcony (5' x 18') and is free to roam around this safe area. She tends to be most active in the morning and in the afternoon. She loves to hide underneath plants and is quite inactive for the most part.
She seems to recognise us and is comfortable when we pick her up. She'd pull her head in instintively but would soon stick her head out to check us out when we pick her up. On occassions, she'd even walk towards us and wait to be fed. She is an absolute darling.
She likes freshly-picked mulberry leaves, clover leaves, choi sum leaves, young stems and flowers (a local leafy green), sweet potato leaves, peas and carrots. I've read somewhere that carrots are good once a week. We are still experiementing with other high fibre vege. She doesn't seem to drink from the water dish at all.
We take her out for walks and soak up some sun when the weather is nice. We have to be very careful where to take her as the park management folks here tend to spray pesticide on grass. :-(
As we are approaching winter, I have been researching on how and where to get supplies to build her an indoor habitat. We want it as natural and organic as possible and sufficient space to move around.
I found posting from Levendis really helpful. I hope we will be able to link up via this forum so that I can find out where to get the really nice looking set up which Levendis has created for the lovely sulcata. The barmuda grass and other home grown vegetables are fantastic.
Hope to hear from fellow members to the Forum on tort care, diet and behaviour.
Cheers,
Welcome to the forum! That was a really lovely first post! So this is your first tortoise ever? 
