Hi all!
My girlfriend and I bought our first tortoise a few days ago and would just like some advice on it all really as naturally I am worrier!
He is 9 months old and a Horsefield. He is currently living in a vivarium, as sold to us by the pet shop (not perfect I know), until we can invest in a proper tortoise table and have the space for it. One end has a heater lamp which tends to heat the warm end to about 90F. The other end is cooler and he tends to sit under his little wooden arch or tree for most of the day. We have had him out for a walk about a few times and seems to enjoy it.
We are mainly feeding him on lettuce and grated carrot and tends to eat quite little of it.
He also had a water bowl in his vivarium which I don't notice him using much although when we placed him in he seemed to like it and dipped his mouth into drink some.
Like I said, I do worry in case there are problems that we don't pick up on. Although we haven't had tortoises before we did do as much research as we could before buying him.
I will post some pictures to show you what he looks like. Will do some more close up of his shell tomorrow so the more knowledgable of you can tell me what you think. (The first picture where you can see those small food pellets are when he first arrived and is the 'complete food' the pet shop gave us')
My girlfriend and I bought our first tortoise a few days ago and would just like some advice on it all really as naturally I am worrier!
He is 9 months old and a Horsefield. He is currently living in a vivarium, as sold to us by the pet shop (not perfect I know), until we can invest in a proper tortoise table and have the space for it. One end has a heater lamp which tends to heat the warm end to about 90F. The other end is cooler and he tends to sit under his little wooden arch or tree for most of the day. We have had him out for a walk about a few times and seems to enjoy it.
We are mainly feeding him on lettuce and grated carrot and tends to eat quite little of it.
He also had a water bowl in his vivarium which I don't notice him using much although when we placed him in he seemed to like it and dipped his mouth into drink some.
Like I said, I do worry in case there are problems that we don't pick up on. Although we haven't had tortoises before we did do as much research as we could before buying him.
I will post some pictures to show you what he looks like. Will do some more close up of his shell tomorrow so the more knowledgable of you can tell me what you think. (The first picture where you can see those small food pellets are when he first arrived and is the 'complete food' the pet shop gave us')
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