Lady Ashthorn
New Member
Hey all,
Baby Ez and I have made it a week! Or we will at 5:30pm.
I just want to make sure my tort-keeping skills are up to snuff.
My temperatures are looking good now at an ambient of 75-82F and 95+F directly under the lamp (but he rarely is right underneath).
He digs into his coco coir or hides in one of his... hides most of the day. I have yet to see him poop or pass urates despite soaking him several times in the past week. I'm working on getting an enclosed tortoise table for him as opposed to the open air setup I have now (I know I was naive).
His new table will have outdoor-grade plastic around 3 sides with a flap on the 4th. He will have a ceramic heat emitter and a uva/uvb light stick... sorry can't remember that their called.
Just today I was searching through his enclosure for poop, weird I know, and I found this:did it come out of him?
Also I was checking Ez over today before his bath and saw that his egg sac is starting to peel off, I was wiping sphagnum moss off him and made it worse. Is he going to get an infection or rot bc of me? Also I know he doesn't look pleased to be picked up.
I'm kinda worried that I haven't found any poop yet, people on here are always talking about how much tortoises poop. Thank you for your tips.
Baby Ez and I have made it a week! Or we will at 5:30pm.
I just want to make sure my tort-keeping skills are up to snuff.
My temperatures are looking good now at an ambient of 75-82F and 95+F directly under the lamp (but he rarely is right underneath).
He digs into his coco coir or hides in one of his... hides most of the day. I have yet to see him poop or pass urates despite soaking him several times in the past week. I'm working on getting an enclosed tortoise table for him as opposed to the open air setup I have now (I know I was naive).
His new table will have outdoor-grade plastic around 3 sides with a flap on the 4th. He will have a ceramic heat emitter and a uva/uvb light stick... sorry can't remember that their called.
Just today I was searching through his enclosure for poop, weird I know, and I found this:did it come out of him?
Also I was checking Ez over today before his bath and saw that his egg sac is starting to peel off, I was wiping sphagnum moss off him and made it worse. Is he going to get an infection or rot bc of me? Also I know he doesn't look pleased to be picked up.
I'm kinda worried that I haven't found any poop yet, people on here are always talking about how much tortoises poop. Thank you for your tips.