Interesting behaviour..

[ISTortoiseLover]

Hello everyone.. My tortoise Poopoo trained himself!
I provide an enclosure with 85% soil/compost and 15% Fir bark for my Elebaba. Previously I used newspapers and reptile carpet and he would just poop all over as he pleases.

Now, I've separated the soil/compost and fir bark in the enclosure. Fir bark occupying just a small section in the corner. I noticed that he walks straight to the fir bark section and poos there. I thought it was just coincidence as he still pees in water or in the soil, but making an effort 9/10 times to walk all the way to a corner covered with fir bark just to poop? Interesting isn't it? haha

 

[Wezzer]

lol, a toilet trained tortoise, never heard that before

 

[Tracy Gould]

Hello everyone.. My tortoise Poopoo trained himself!
I provide an enclosure with 85% soil/compost and 15% Fir bark for my Elebaba. Previously I used newspapers and reptile carpet and he would just poop all over as he pleases.

Now, I've separated the soil/compost and fir bark in the enclosure. Fir bark occupying just a small section in the corner. I noticed that he walks straight to the fir bark section and poos there. I thought it was just coincidence as he still pees in water or in the soil, but making an effort 9/10 times to walk all the way to a corner covered with fir bark just to poop? Interesting isn't it? haha

That great! Thats it you have set something off now we will all be trying to train our Torts now lol

 

[Robert]

So far I've been lucky. My girl poops in her bath. She usually does it at about the 15 minute mark, so I just rinse her off and bath time is over!

 

[ALDABRAMAN]

LOL,,

 

[samstar]

Hello everyone.. My tortoise Poopoo trained himself!
I provide an enclosure with 85% soil/compost and 15% Fir bark for my Elebaba. Previously I used newspapers and reptile carpet and he would just poop all over as he pleases.

Now, I've separated the soil/compost and fir bark in the enclosure. Fir bark occupying just a small section in the corner. I noticed that he walks straight to the fir bark section and poos there. I thought it was just coincidence as he still pees in water or in the soil, but making an effort 9/10 times to walk all the way to a corner covered with fir bark just to poop? Interesting isn't it? haha

Your a lucky man

 

[Balboa]

LOL that's too funny. I'd have never figured fir bark to be the magic toilet training material.

 

[dmarcus]

Thats cool, a toilet trained ..

 

[Shelly]

I wish I had a tortoise that poopooed. Mine just crap.