Is Tiny too TINY??????

[Zamric]

Well, with the little yolk still kinda hangin out the hole.... I'd definatly confirm he/she is a hatchling and a young one at that! Read all the links at the bottom of Toms post and follow them as closly as you can! Hatchlings this young can be tough and unpredictable as far as health is concerned.

Study, study, study....

Sulcatas ROCK!

Thanks Zamric! I have been reading non-stop and actually seen the pictures of walking rock a few days ago. beautiful tort!

I have read all of toms threads and been reading everything. Anything new people have to read as far as hatchling care?

I have 1 question:
What can I get locally to start growing in his cage in some soil??? I live in SE Florida. I want a weed of some sort that is leafy green. He is only interested in lettuce right now and hard to get him to eat any mixtures. Some good leafy weeds growing right in his cage should be a good free-roaming-pick-and-eat natural setting.

Any advice? Thanks!

One of the big problems with trying to grow ANYTHING in an enclosure, is your Tortoise with stomp on and grind it all back down fast6er than it can grow! With WalkingRock, he has the whole backyard full of grass, but he keeps all the weeds cleaned up (If a dandylion shows its face in my yard, it's a gonner!). As it stands now, he just found the last patch of Monkey Grass behind the Swing Seat, so now its just a matter of time before it too, goes extict in my yard!

I tried planting lettuse, spinich and cabbage that was already started and well sprouted in my Twin Enclosure for my two Leopards.... they lasted about 3 days before all that was left was a couple of stems pushing thru the dirt.

Good luck with this project!

 

[Thalatte]

For those that have a free roaming tort you could have multiple garden areas where you plant the various things but have a removable fence around them so when the plants are big enough you can just remove a section to give access to the plants. Then you rotate out the different gardens so you always have something growing.