MorlaTheSulcata
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Hi y’all!
meet our sweet Morla from Texas!
We got her/him in April from a pet store, and has been a fabulous tortoise so far!
She’s/He’s 5 1/2 inches across the shell long wise (was 4 when we brought Morla home), I have no idea on age or gender at this point. The store told us maybe a girl, but after reading here, it seems it will be a while before we know. ? I do tend to refer to Morla as a girl, only because we did believe what we were told. (We are aware that may not be the case, just habitual at this point)
we had to immediately transition from pellets to greens (the store swore by bags on unlabeled pellets they sold! Having no idea what they were, we immediately made the switch!) Now we are attempting to move from the greens to grasses and weeds, but Morla has gotten picky on diet. Morla avoids prickly pear & most grasses. On occasion I will find him/her tugging at grass when the food bowl is empty though!
I do have a question with my intro.
Morla has a huge water bowl, but prefers to use the food bowl as a toilet!! Any idea why my tortoise would choose this over the water bowl? The water bowl is an 8 inch terracotta saucer, which I thought would give ample room, but would rather use the tiny food bowl WITH food in it! ?
meet our sweet Morla from Texas!
We got her/him in April from a pet store, and has been a fabulous tortoise so far!
She’s/He’s 5 1/2 inches across the shell long wise (was 4 when we brought Morla home), I have no idea on age or gender at this point. The store told us maybe a girl, but after reading here, it seems it will be a while before we know. ? I do tend to refer to Morla as a girl, only because we did believe what we were told. (We are aware that may not be the case, just habitual at this point)
we had to immediately transition from pellets to greens (the store swore by bags on unlabeled pellets they sold! Having no idea what they were, we immediately made the switch!) Now we are attempting to move from the greens to grasses and weeds, but Morla has gotten picky on diet. Morla avoids prickly pear & most grasses. On occasion I will find him/her tugging at grass when the food bowl is empty though!
I do have a question with my intro.
Morla has a huge water bowl, but prefers to use the food bowl as a toilet!! Any idea why my tortoise would choose this over the water bowl? The water bowl is an 8 inch terracotta saucer, which I thought would give ample room, but would rather use the tiny food bowl WITH food in it! ?