Pictures of Norbert.

[sachmn]

Some pictures of questionable quality.
This one is his soaking pool...he flipped himself trying to get out the other day so I decided to take the 'ole hot-glue gun, some pebbles and some rocks and put some traction in it.
I also covered one side of his enclosure so it would stay a bit shadier for him and I put a new hide in there with a smaller opening to hopefully keep the humidity up a little bit.

As you can kind of see, in this one there is a slot at the top of the enclosure, this may help with circulation.

Here is a bit of a close-up.

And here, I'm holding him.

I'll try to put the video in another post.

 

[Yvonne G]

Very nice tort table. And the tortoise looks nice and smooth.

 

[sachmn]

Thanks, hopefully I can improve upon the enclosure and keep him nice and smooth.

 

[Stephanie Logan]

He has lovely facial coloring! He looks like he's ready to jump ship in that last picture, has better things to do, I'm sure...

 

[sachmn]

Yea, it does look a bit like he's trying to take a dive, he was actually rather calm believe it or not.
I couldn't get the video to post, which is unfortunate because I was hoping to get confirmation on the behavior.

 

[DoctorCosmonaut]

Looking good so far. I used to have rocks in my "watering hole" too, but every time my girl pooped in it I'd have to wash them all and I got so tired of it... just a warning you may want to just go with no rocks, I don't think the he will mind.

 

[sachmn]

Looking good so far. I used to have rocks in my "watering hole" too, but every time my girl pooped in it I'd have to wash them all and I got so tired of it... just a warning you may want to just go with no rocks, I don't think the he will mind.

I ended up taking the rocks out the next day after thining about that. The lip on the dish is a bit steep, which caused him to flip over and it got me worried about him drowning but we haven't had any more trouble with that that I've seen.

 

[terryo]

Beautiful Lil' tort. Really nice coloring. Norbert....I love that name.