"W" Family
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I am new to the tortoise thing and want to make sure I am doing it right! My daughters and I did lots of research but with all the research we came up with conflicting things. I will say the research steered us away from the Russian tortoise at the pet store. We found a breeder and received our little Russian Tortoise this week. He is 2 months. Our indoor habitat was set and everything bought and I thought I was going to do this right. I read posts today talking about the wrong kind of bulbs. I thought with the research I read I got the correct ones and now I am second guessing. I turned them off today in concern. Can someone help me determine if what I am doing is right or wrong. I have the ZooMed 10.0 UVB 13 watt desert mini compact fluorescent and the ZooMed 75W Reptile basking Spot Lamp in a Dual Dome Light Fixture on top of the tank. They are shinning on a slate stone that my little baby can get heat from above and below with the stone. The lights are on a timer for 12 hours a day.
The substrate is Coco Coir that I am spraying multiple times a day to keep moist. We are doing daily soaks in addition. His hide is moist with Coco Coir substrate as well as Sphagnum Moss. Feeding our little one: ZooMed tortoise diet pellets soaked, freshly grown collard greens and kale to come, store bought romaine, squash and other store bought vegetables until our different greens grow more. There is a calcium block he is eating on and I have calcium to put on his food once a week. I see that I need to buy a reptile vitamin supplement and MinerAll.
We started him off in a 20L tank to help with humidity and then will move him into a bigger indoor enclosure when he grows out of this.
Please Help! I want what is best for our little Russian Tortoise, Ratchet.
Thank you,
Brandy
The substrate is Coco Coir that I am spraying multiple times a day to keep moist. We are doing daily soaks in addition. His hide is moist with Coco Coir substrate as well as Sphagnum Moss. Feeding our little one: ZooMed tortoise diet pellets soaked, freshly grown collard greens and kale to come, store bought romaine, squash and other store bought vegetables until our different greens grow more. There is a calcium block he is eating on and I have calcium to put on his food once a week. I see that I need to buy a reptile vitamin supplement and MinerAll.
We started him off in a 20L tank to help with humidity and then will move him into a bigger indoor enclosure when he grows out of this.
Please Help! I want what is best for our little Russian Tortoise, Ratchet.
Thank you,
Brandy