Basic care info and such-
5" carapace
About 2 years old
Eats mostly mixed greens (spring mix, collards, kale, mustard, weeds in the right time of year) some veggies and some mazuri twice a week. Greens are dusted with calcium.
40 gallon vivarium with layered bioactive substrate (soil/coir mix with cypress mulch on top)
Misted twice a day
Low level UVB fluorescent light
Temp range from mid 70's to mid to high 80's
I've been having this long term issue with my red-foot's shell. It just gets... peely and yuck looking, like it's all scraped up. It's not soft and I don't see any white spots at least.
It seems to be from excess humidity, but the tank has plenty of dry spots, yet she always digs down to the moist part of the soil so she's basically always kind of soaking. She has lots of dry hides to choose from so I dunno why she does it.
Should I remove the soil completely? Let it dry out? :\
And does the top of her shell look okay?
5" carapace
About 2 years old
Eats mostly mixed greens (spring mix, collards, kale, mustard, weeds in the right time of year) some veggies and some mazuri twice a week. Greens are dusted with calcium.
40 gallon vivarium with layered bioactive substrate (soil/coir mix with cypress mulch on top)
Misted twice a day
Low level UVB fluorescent light
Temp range from mid 70's to mid to high 80's
I've been having this long term issue with my red-foot's shell. It just gets... peely and yuck looking, like it's all scraped up. It's not soft and I don't see any white spots at least.
It seems to be from excess humidity, but the tank has plenty of dry spots, yet she always digs down to the moist part of the soil so she's basically always kind of soaking. She has lots of dry hides to choose from so I dunno why she does it.
Should I remove the soil completely? Let it dry out? :\
And does the top of her shell look okay?