Elliot redfoot
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- Jul 20, 2014
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Hi everyone,
It's a bit of a long story but I want to give you as much detail as possible , a friend of mine was getting a tortoise and came back with two, I offered to have the other one, she said it was a redfoot and I needed a table top (with light) so I build her a child's sandpit size enclosure , (we have had her since before Christmas) .
She barely comes out, eats a little every few days and seems miserable, I research and find out what she really needs so I cover half her home in purspex and add moss but I can only keep the humidity at 50 ish, so I have now built her a viv with a sensor to keep the temp at around 90 and the humidity is around 70 she has a bowl to bathe in and a seperate one to drink, I have a grape vine growing in there(she can't reach it) as I read this would help with the humidity.
She still doesn't seem happy, she had bad pyramiding but that's a bit better now.(is that due to lack of humidity ?)
She seems fit and well.
She doesn't really eat anything leafy although I have offered her everything she can have, she has eaten boiled egg, chicken, a dead vole she found in the garden and fruit.
So she does eat but just every few days and hides the rest of the time.
I've tried to make everything just right for her but she is so introverted , is that just her ? I'm all out of ideas !
It's a bit of a long story but I want to give you as much detail as possible , a friend of mine was getting a tortoise and came back with two, I offered to have the other one, she said it was a redfoot and I needed a table top (with light) so I build her a child's sandpit size enclosure , (we have had her since before Christmas) .
She barely comes out, eats a little every few days and seems miserable, I research and find out what she really needs so I cover half her home in purspex and add moss but I can only keep the humidity at 50 ish, so I have now built her a viv with a sensor to keep the temp at around 90 and the humidity is around 70 she has a bowl to bathe in and a seperate one to drink, I have a grape vine growing in there(she can't reach it) as I read this would help with the humidity.
She still doesn't seem happy, she had bad pyramiding but that's a bit better now.(is that due to lack of humidity ?)
She seems fit and well.
She doesn't really eat anything leafy although I have offered her everything she can have, she has eaten boiled egg, chicken, a dead vole she found in the garden and fruit.
So she does eat but just every few days and hides the rest of the time.
I've tried to make everything just right for her but she is so introverted , is that just her ? I'm all out of ideas !