Jasper.hulleman
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Hello Guys,
We are fairly new to having a tortoise. We bought our russian tortoise October 2020 and recently he became 1 year old on July 28. He is 201 gram at the moment. Everything went perfectly fine untill a couple of days (1 week)
We are starting to see that his behavior is changing, sleeps quiet alot and less interested in food. We are suspecting that he wants to hibernate since these are most of the things we read online. But to be sure we would like to hear some more opinions and came across this website.
He has a 1 by 1 meter enclosure with a platform 50 by 50 cm on top where he always sleeps. His base is layer is a sort sand that was recommended and bought by a reptile rescue facility and in his sleeping area has a fairly thick layer of it where he digs himself in. We got 1 UVB light basking spot and 1 heating lamp on the other side. In his sleeping area we dont have any heating. His enclosure is open and he is able to walk in the living room. He always likes to go on an adventure and when he is getting tired he walks back and goes to the heat.
Hot area is around 30 top 35 degreeds celsius and cool area at day 20 to 25 and in the night 15 to 20 degreeds celcius.
For his diet we have a variate of foods. Usually every week something else but we like to get him different things along the week. Such as: Romain lettuce, cabbage, normale lettuce, carrot tops, bell peppers, cucumber, tomato and some fruits once a week.
Hope i informed you all enough to get us some tips and tricks. Also i would like to hear some opinions about the matter and what we can do in this matter! Thanks in advance
Kind regards,
We are fairly new to having a tortoise. We bought our russian tortoise October 2020 and recently he became 1 year old on July 28. He is 201 gram at the moment. Everything went perfectly fine untill a couple of days (1 week)
We are starting to see that his behavior is changing, sleeps quiet alot and less interested in food. We are suspecting that he wants to hibernate since these are most of the things we read online. But to be sure we would like to hear some more opinions and came across this website.
He has a 1 by 1 meter enclosure with a platform 50 by 50 cm on top where he always sleeps. His base is layer is a sort sand that was recommended and bought by a reptile rescue facility and in his sleeping area has a fairly thick layer of it where he digs himself in. We got 1 UVB light basking spot and 1 heating lamp on the other side. In his sleeping area we dont have any heating. His enclosure is open and he is able to walk in the living room. He always likes to go on an adventure and when he is getting tired he walks back and goes to the heat.
Hot area is around 30 top 35 degreeds celsius and cool area at day 20 to 25 and in the night 15 to 20 degreeds celcius.
For his diet we have a variate of foods. Usually every week something else but we like to get him different things along the week. Such as: Romain lettuce, cabbage, normale lettuce, carrot tops, bell peppers, cucumber, tomato and some fruits once a week.
Hope i informed you all enough to get us some tips and tricks. Also i would like to hear some opinions about the matter and what we can do in this matter! Thanks in advance
Kind regards,
