Hello all. We just got a little red footed tortoise a month ago. I’ve been reading a lot on how to care for them, and I want to share what we’ve done so far and ask a couple of questions. First of all, we live in Calgary, Canada so she (not sure if is a she or he) is indoors. We got a glass enclosure and sime wood chips for the substrate (recommended by the reptile specialist in the pet store) of which I’m not so sure is the right one for her. We have a heat mat that is on 24/7 in the middle of the enclosure, a shallow water dish big enough for her to go in and a smaller food dish, also shallow. These are in the oposite side of her “cave”. We have a UV lamp and a heat lamp that are on around 12 hrs and a night heat lamp. Daytime temps are around 30C and night temp is around 20C. Humidity is between 70 and 90%, we get this spraying the substrate with water a few times early in the morning, in the late afternoon when we get home from work and at night before going to bed. We feed her forest tortoise food mixed with romaine, and twice a week we give her a stawberry. We also sprinkle her food with multivitamin twice a week. We soak her every other day. So my quiestions are: is the habitat good for her? Today she started eating the substrate wich worries me because I think the wood may perforate her stomach/intestines? Also after reading and reading last night I realized she may have pyramiding, and we got her like that from the pet store. Is this reversible? I don’t know how old she is, from the pet store she is supposed to be around 5 months old. She measures around 3 inches from heat to tail (the shell). Any advice would be great! I’m attaching some pictures of the enclosure, substrate, water and food dishes
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