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Hi Everyone,
Well today I went to the pet shop to get my sully a new uv bulb and wanted some advice on creating a humid area in the viv. He was like 'Oh no, they should be kept dry'. He asked how big she is and he reckons she is small for her age! So all this has got me worried about how I am caring for her and wanting to ask questions. I have much greater faith in everyone here!
From all the reading I have been doing I understand that an area of humidty should be available to the tort to go to if they need to. Unfortunately at the moment she is in a vivarium as at the time we thought that was the best thing - we know now that a table would be better and plan to move her into one for the summer. What I want to know is has anyone got any good ideas of creating this area that needs humidity, I have heard of a cellulose sponge?? Would it be okay to make this area around where her water bowl is??
Also substrate - She has eyes bigger than her belly and unfortunately due to our lack of knowledge again, she was on woodchip which caused severe impaction (which thankfully has been sorted now) I tried kitchen lino as I didn't want her legs sliding around the floor all the time as I understand it's bad for their hip joints... She has never touched the lino so it worked. But is there anything else which is safe to put down for her? I just know she will try to eat it no matter what!
Diet - How often should she be fed and how much? I sometimes feel I don't giver her enough!! We feed her everyday on a diet of lettuce, chicory, dandelions, timothy hay, kale (as a treat), Pumpkin when we can get hold of it usually around october. I hear that cactus pads are good and orchard hay also is... But the problem is, I live in the UK are there any suppliers that you know of in the UK or that will ship here?
Sully is turning 6 this year and I will measure her this evening and weigh her so maybe someone could let me know if her stats are anything to worry about! She is an active little bulldozer, bathed regularly at least twice a week, her toilets are good and always wants her food! Unfortunately she has pyramided - she already had when we got her, her growth seems to have smoothed some what since we have had her.
Last question - Recently she has been having a little bit of brown liquid coming from her bottom I can't say it's diarrhea because when she does her normal stool they are firm. Could this be a sign of something to worry about? We thought it might be that she was a little cold in the night as it's very cold at the moment so we left her heat on and that seemed to help but not completely so I am changing her uv bulb which is due anyway as I thought this may also help.
I am so sorry for all these questions and the essay... It's just that we have had her 2 years now and we love her very much and want to give her the best life we can, which we thought we were. If you have the time to point me to a thread that may help or what to know anymore about her I am happy to provide information.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and I would be very grateful for any replies.
x
Well today I went to the pet shop to get my sully a new uv bulb and wanted some advice on creating a humid area in the viv. He was like 'Oh no, they should be kept dry'. He asked how big she is and he reckons she is small for her age! So all this has got me worried about how I am caring for her and wanting to ask questions. I have much greater faith in everyone here!
From all the reading I have been doing I understand that an area of humidty should be available to the tort to go to if they need to. Unfortunately at the moment she is in a vivarium as at the time we thought that was the best thing - we know now that a table would be better and plan to move her into one for the summer. What I want to know is has anyone got any good ideas of creating this area that needs humidity, I have heard of a cellulose sponge?? Would it be okay to make this area around where her water bowl is??
Also substrate - She has eyes bigger than her belly and unfortunately due to our lack of knowledge again, she was on woodchip which caused severe impaction (which thankfully has been sorted now) I tried kitchen lino as I didn't want her legs sliding around the floor all the time as I understand it's bad for their hip joints... She has never touched the lino so it worked. But is there anything else which is safe to put down for her? I just know she will try to eat it no matter what!
Diet - How often should she be fed and how much? I sometimes feel I don't giver her enough!! We feed her everyday on a diet of lettuce, chicory, dandelions, timothy hay, kale (as a treat), Pumpkin when we can get hold of it usually around october. I hear that cactus pads are good and orchard hay also is... But the problem is, I live in the UK are there any suppliers that you know of in the UK or that will ship here?
Sully is turning 6 this year and I will measure her this evening and weigh her so maybe someone could let me know if her stats are anything to worry about! She is an active little bulldozer, bathed regularly at least twice a week, her toilets are good and always wants her food! Unfortunately she has pyramided - she already had when we got her, her growth seems to have smoothed some what since we have had her.
Last question - Recently she has been having a little bit of brown liquid coming from her bottom I can't say it's diarrhea because when she does her normal stool they are firm. Could this be a sign of something to worry about? We thought it might be that she was a little cold in the night as it's very cold at the moment so we left her heat on and that seemed to help but not completely so I am changing her uv bulb which is due anyway as I thought this may also help.
I am so sorry for all these questions and the essay... It's just that we have had her 2 years now and we love her very much and want to give her the best life we can, which we thought we were. If you have the time to point me to a thread that may help or what to know anymore about her I am happy to provide information.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and I would be very grateful for any replies.
x