How are all your torts so clean?!

[thatrebecca]

Seems like the beautiful torts I see in pix on here are always squeaky clean. My two CDTs are usually covered in dirt from digging or grass or veggies from pigging out (and sitting on their food, a favorite pastime). Are you guys always taking pix right after a soak or are your torts just the Felix to my Oscars?

 

[mctlong]

I'll usually rinse them off before taking pictures. I find that the ones I keep on cypress mulch stay much cleaner than the ones on topsoil or dirt.

 

[bigred]

some folks on here like myself have misting spray bottles and spray them down before the pic.

 

[wiccan_chicken]

My girl is always dusty from being in her topsoil. Though all that takes is a nice shower and she's good. I haven't had a problem with a food stained beak yet. She isn't very messy.

 

[mike taylor]

Don't fill bad my torts are always dirty.

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[Levi the Leopard]

Usually soaked/sprayed before pics.
However, my leopard always looks great..he doesn't dig, burrow or ever seem to get dirty. I'm lucky with him.


Heather
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[thatrebecca]

Ah well. My guys are clean for roughly two minutes after a soak or a spritz. Then they seem to find a way to get into something. I thought messiness was tort nature, but I guess there are actually Felix torts.

 

[KatWoman]

My desert tort always has a nice coating of loose dirt on top of her shell - my husband had built her a nice cave but she decided to build one of her own in the side of a mound in our landscaping

 

[wellington]

Like Team Gomberg, my leopard is never dirty. He even only goes poop in his soaks. If I am gone for a couple days, he will poop in his water dish, however has only done that twice. So even easy to clean up after his potty breaks

 

[Tom]

My tortoises that live outdoor full time are almost always covered with a layer of dirt. I usually soak them and clean them up before picture time though. My sulcatas usually have mud all over them. Either dry or wet. I make puddles for them on hot days, and they do the sulcata mud flicking thing.

 

[tortadise]

My tortoises that live outdoor full time are almost always covered with a layer of dirt. I usually soak them and clean them up before picture time though. My sulcatas usually have mud all over them. Either dry or wet. I make puddles for them on hot days, and they do the sulcata mud flicking thing.

Yep. The big guys here too. I caught mine with some 2' tall weeds with clumps of dirt on their backs the other day from the flicking. Cracks me up.

Like others. I will either snap some photos after a good "rain storm" (misting system) or after a soak. Sometimes they get so caked with dirt dust or mud you forget how cool some of them look.

 

[EchoTheLeoTort]

my leopard hatchling is almost never dirty, and he poops in his soak sometimes though I do admit he gets a green stain around his mouth from his greens im lucky.

 

[ascott]

Yeah.....the men here are pretty much like this 99.8% of their life---if they get sprinkler time then they are really flashy for like 30 seconds....lol

 

[LeopardTortLover]

Mine currently has food all over her face and coco coir all over her arms. This wouldn't stop me taking a pic though. I think it shows personality

 

[PapS]

My climate is really dry for most of the year so my tortoise gets dirty right after a bath then soil quickly dries and for most of the time she's covered with a very fine layer of dust. The big mess is right after hibernation, in winter it sometimes rains here so when she wakes up she's covered with large clumps of soil!

 

[Spn785]

Just this morning I had trouble finding my Russian, but then I saw a clump of dirt move toward the food dish. I usually take pictures not long after a soak.

 

[LeopardTortLover]

Re: RE: How are all your torts so clean?!

Just this morning I had trouble finding my Russian, but then I saw a clump of dirt move toward the food dish. I usually take pictures not long after a soak.

LOL!

 

[TortoiseLuv0131]

You should have seen my tort yesterday after making a huge burrow in the pine needles. She looked like a dirty rock...it was actually hard to see her face .

 

[Jacqui]

I usually take the pictures here just as they are. I don't do any spit and polishing to make them "prettier".

 

[GBtortoises]

Once a week I load them all in the back of my truck and drive through the carwash. Then the carwash guys wax and buff them-what else-Turtle Wax!