Hello! My name is Ron and i live in wisconsin (just so you know)
I have recently bought a greek tortoise and obviously as a new owner i have a few questions. I bought him from pet smart four days ago, it was may 5th, and he seems to be doing ok. He spends most of his day, at least when im home after school, in his basking spot. i have a thermometer and humidity reader in his cage and its usually 65-70 and 45-50% humidity during the day. His basking spot is about 90-95. At night it drops to about 60 and the humidity goes up a bit. Also when i get home i turn on my space heater to make sure its at 70 (its usually like 65 or so). My problem is he does spend most of my time with him under the basking light and I was wondering if this was normal. It seems that he is moving around during the day and his water dish is usually dirty (usually with pee it seems).
This leads to my next question. Today i thought it would be a good idea to soak him even though i was hesitant because it looked like he was in his water dish every day. I filled up a small Tupperware container with slightly warm water and at a good height (between his upper and lower shell), after a few seconds i walked about two feet to refill his water dish in his cage and he began to freak out and almost succeeded in escaping. After i put him back in his cage he began to run around nonstop until I put his basking light back on. He then proceeded to do what he normally does and lay and sleep under it. I dont know If it was his first ever soak or i did something wrong.
Also it seems that he never sleeps in his half log. He usually sleeps under his basking spot which I of course turn off at night. He has only slept in his half log the first night he got there, he was a bit timid of course, and the second night when i put him under there. I dont know if he cares where he sleeps or what, but i was just wondering if this was normal.
Other than that he seems to be healthy. He eats quite a bit of food every day, and has seemed to warm up to me just a little bit. I have seen that white pee stuff in his cage but i have not seen poop or pee in the substrate (although i dont quite know what that would look like). He has a nice gold and slightly brown shell and gold scales and head. His head also looked a BIT flaky though. He looks to be a boy (concave under shell) so I named him Sheldon. Any help would be much appreciated!
I have recently bought a greek tortoise and obviously as a new owner i have a few questions. I bought him from pet smart four days ago, it was may 5th, and he seems to be doing ok. He spends most of his day, at least when im home after school, in his basking spot. i have a thermometer and humidity reader in his cage and its usually 65-70 and 45-50% humidity during the day. His basking spot is about 90-95. At night it drops to about 60 and the humidity goes up a bit. Also when i get home i turn on my space heater to make sure its at 70 (its usually like 65 or so). My problem is he does spend most of my time with him under the basking light and I was wondering if this was normal. It seems that he is moving around during the day and his water dish is usually dirty (usually with pee it seems).
This leads to my next question. Today i thought it would be a good idea to soak him even though i was hesitant because it looked like he was in his water dish every day. I filled up a small Tupperware container with slightly warm water and at a good height (between his upper and lower shell), after a few seconds i walked about two feet to refill his water dish in his cage and he began to freak out and almost succeeded in escaping. After i put him back in his cage he began to run around nonstop until I put his basking light back on. He then proceeded to do what he normally does and lay and sleep under it. I dont know If it was his first ever soak or i did something wrong.
Also it seems that he never sleeps in his half log. He usually sleeps under his basking spot which I of course turn off at night. He has only slept in his half log the first night he got there, he was a bit timid of course, and the second night when i put him under there. I dont know if he cares where he sleeps or what, but i was just wondering if this was normal.
Other than that he seems to be healthy. He eats quite a bit of food every day, and has seemed to warm up to me just a little bit. I have seen that white pee stuff in his cage but i have not seen poop or pee in the substrate (although i dont quite know what that would look like). He has a nice gold and slightly brown shell and gold scales and head. His head also looked a BIT flaky though. He looks to be a boy (concave under shell) so I named him Sheldon. Any help would be much appreciated!
I don't know about Greeks, but someone will be along soon. I'm in Chicago and we only get Russians here at our petsmarts and petco
