I have been looking at larger torts for a while and recently a friend of mine had taken in a sick sulcata. I kept asking if he wanted me to take the little guy home and see if I can nurse him back to health and yesterday he gave him to me.
Of course a sickly tort is not the best tort but I have a soft heart for the weak, sick and injured. (main reason to become a nurse lol)
The story is that he was sold to a guy who kept him for a couple months and by the time he was brought back he was in pretty bad shape. No idea how he was being cared for or what he was being fed during that time, just that the tort was active before going home with this guy. This tort has a shell deformity as well, he is a bit hunchback. He was born this way and it is not too bad so I am hopeful it will not affect him once he is feeling better. I have 2 daughters who have scholiosis and we love that he is crooked too. His name is Quasimoto, like the hunchback of notre dame.
I will post pics later, my camera is in my desk at work right now, sorry.
PLEASE GIVE ME SOME ADVISE on these little guys....I have only ever had hermann's torts and do not know a whole lot about sulcata's and I am excited to learn. He is in a sterilite with a heat light and he is borrowing a UVA/UVB bulb from my herman's enclosure til I can get a new one at the store tomorrow.
Thanks in advance for your help!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
Of course a sickly tort is not the best tort but I have a soft heart for the weak, sick and injured. (main reason to become a nurse lol)
The story is that he was sold to a guy who kept him for a couple months and by the time he was brought back he was in pretty bad shape. No idea how he was being cared for or what he was being fed during that time, just that the tort was active before going home with this guy. This tort has a shell deformity as well, he is a bit hunchback. He was born this way and it is not too bad so I am hopeful it will not affect him once he is feeling better. I have 2 daughters who have scholiosis and we love that he is crooked too. His name is Quasimoto, like the hunchback of notre dame.
I will post pics later, my camera is in my desk at work right now, sorry.
PLEASE GIVE ME SOME ADVISE on these little guys....I have only ever had hermann's torts and do not know a whole lot about sulcata's and I am excited to learn. He is in a sterilite with a heat light and he is borrowing a UVA/UVB bulb from my herman's enclosure til I can get a new one at the store tomorrow.
Thanks in advance for your help!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!