saying hello

[pafek]

hello to everyone- I am new to this forum. I live in Tucson, Arizona, and have a desert tortoise in a fenced in area in my back yard. He or she- can't tell yet, is around 3 years old.

 

[Yvonne G]

Hi, and welcome to the Forum!!

Cute tortoise.

 

[Tom]

Very cool. I'd love to see your burrow for him. Always looking for new ideas.

Hello and welcome.

 

[Grandpa Turtle 144]

Hello from Phx AZ and welcome to the
TFO

 

[sibi]

Hello and welcome! We like lots of pics

 

[nate.mann]

welcome fellow AZ keeper. theres a thread where a few of us in AZ talk: http://www.tortoiseforum.org/thread-79492.html. your new friend is adorable. just last night i brought home a Sonoran DT, Esmerelda.

 

[cemmons12]

Hello and welcome!

 

[pafek]

I built it according to the instructions on the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum's website. It is much bigger than it needs to be for now, but will not need to be revised as the tortoise gets larger.

Very cool. I'd love to see your burrow for him. Always looking for new ideas.

Hello and welcome.

 

[nate.mann]

I built it according to the instructions on the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum's website. It is much bigger than it needs to be for now, but will not need to be revised as the tortoise gets larger.

Very cool. I'd love to see your burrow for him. Always looking for new ideas.

Hello and welcome.

good way to go about it. i like your set up, there is a place for the sun to be directly hitting the tortoise right?


0.1.0 Russian tortoise
0.1.0 Sonoran Desert Tortoise
1.0.0 Bluenose Pit/American Bulldog

 

[pafek]

I built it according to the instructions on the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum's website. It is much bigger than it needs to be for now, but will not need to be revised as the tortoise gets larger.

Very cool. I'd love to see your burrow for him. Always looking for new ideas.

Hello and welcome.

good way to go about it. i like your set up, there is a place for the sun to be directly hitting the tortoise right?


0.1.0 Russian tortoise
0.1.0 Sonoran Desert Tortoise
1.0.0 Bluenose Pit/American Bulldog

it's hard to imagine a place in Tucson that doesn't have sunlight hitting it somewhere! The yard has a mix of sunny and shady area, depending on the time of day.

 

[pafek]

welcome fellow AZ keeper. theres a thread where a few of us in AZ talk: http://www.tortoiseforum.org/thread-79492.html. your new friend is adorable. just last night i brought home a Sonoran DT, Esmerelda.

thanks for the welcome. The link you gave me doesn't work. What is the name of the thread?

 

[nate.mann]

I built it according to the instructions on the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum's website. It is much bigger than it needs to be for now, but will not need to be revised as the tortoise gets larger.

Very cool. I'd love to see your burrow for him. Always looking for new ideas.

Hello and welcome.

good way to go about it. i like your set up, there is a place for the sun to be directly hitting the tortoise right?


0.1.0 Russian tortoise
0.1.0 Sonoran Desert Tortoise
1.0.0 Bluenose Pit/American Bulldog

it's hard to imagine a place in Tucson that doesn't have sunlight hitting it somewhere! The yard has a mix of sunny and shady area, depending on the time of day.

haha, i can agree to that. well, that makes it official, you have a perfect set up. for now, that is. enclosures will always bug a keeper as we always find something to change/improve upon. haha.


0.1.0 Russian tortoise
0.1.0 Sonoran Desert Tortoise
1.0.0 Bluenose Pit/American Bulldog

 

[ILoveTortoises2]

haha, i can agree to that. well, that makes it official, you have a perfect set up. for now, that is. enclosures will always bug a keeper as we always find something to change/improve upon. haha.


0.1.0 Russian tortoise
0.1.0 Sonoran Desert Tortoise
1.0.0 Bluenose Pit/American Bulldog
[/quote]

Isn't that true I just finished my enclosure about a month ago and this weekend I was changing it all around moving stuff adding stuff. LOL... I have more I want to do this week too

By the way I LOVE your enclosure. You did a great job on it

 

[nate.mann]

haha yeah. i put my tortoises outside finally, that was about two weeks ago or so, and have changed it a lot.


0.1.0 Russian tortoise
0.1.0 Sonoran Desert Tortoise
1.0.0 Bluenose Pit/American Bulldog

 

[thatrebecca]

Welcome! What a handsome DT and a great setup. Does your DT sleep outside or come in at night? I built a burrow similar to that for my CDTs and they loved it, but it was tricky reaching back and getting them at dusk when I needed to bring them in, so I ended up modifying it. If you have a secret back door or special strategy for getting him out, I'd love to hear it... Mine involved work gloves and cursing.

 

[pafek]

Welcome! What a handsome DT and a great setup. Does your DT sleep outside or come in at night? I built a burrow similar to that for my CDTs and they loved it, but it was tricky reaching back and getting them at dusk when I needed to bring them in, so I ended up modifying it. If you have a secret back door or special strategy for getting him out, I'd love to hear it... Mine involved work gloves and cursing.

I just leave her outside all the time. She has burrowed down into the floor of the burrow to get more comfortable. I can just bout reach the back of the burrow if I need to take the tortoise out.
Paul