WOW!!!! what a drop. Lets hope he doesn't convince the girls to attempt the same escape. They are little buggers, very curious and love to explore.

Well I am happy to hear all of the flippers and escapee's are ok. While away for thanksgiving I told my friend to check them at least 2 times a day because I was worried about someone being upside down. I seem to have this problem only with my sulcatas. Sure enough, the first day I was away, she came over in the afternoon and one was looking at the ceiling.

Good grief! I am glad that everyone has had a happy ending!

TestudoGeek so glad to hear your little one is ok and landed on the cold side and was able to be warmed with a nice soothing warm soak.

Kelly, I’m so glad your little one is ok. I’m just not sure what gets into them. You may have to attach bungi cords to them.

Jen and yours too, I guess your tort lying on its back would give it a better view of the ceiling

But don’t they realize that this could be hazardous to their little lives let alone what it does to us.

Seriously I guess this is a more common problem than I thought. I am glad everyone is ok. So far since I placed the rocks in the water and the dirt higher on the sides of the hide no one has flipped so far. I almost feel I should set up a camera so I can watch then 24/7. But I guess parents just have to let their little ones explore and pray for the best. (but I still am watching them like a hawk)

LOL! And would you believe me if I told you he's trying to pull the same sky-diving act today?!?! Luckily the boards are much too high now! But he won't give up!

If I read this a year ago I would've just thought they were all by accident. But something happened this past summer that has convinced me otherwise. I always put my 2 russians outside for the summer, and this year I put them in our side flower garden, where we had a kinda picket fence with pickets on both sides, I would check them and it seemed they were fine, I put some cinder blocks on the edges that I though they might be able to burrow under. Well of course I couldn't find one after a few hours and went nuts, I had a friend over and my husband and my son looking for 2 hours. We did finally find him and I thought lets see if he can show us where he got out. Well that little bugger went up to the fence (and it was also lined with stones even though it's buried in the ground.) He stood up on his hind end, turned sideways and fell out. I just couldn't believe my eyes!! and he repeated it!!! No one I meet(cept you guys, of course) think turtles have any personality, they all say it's like watching baseball. Well I like base ball and I love turtles!!! Na

When I had all my babies this happened. So I hung a piece of plexi glass low over the water dish (shallow dish for short tort) such that they could not climb on top of each other and flip.

That’s and Good Idea too. Thanks TurtleTown@Cal. I put some rocks in the water dish so that if they flipped their head would stay above water. It worked, so far no one has flipped in the water. Now that I figured it out I have found homes for all four and they are being adopted this Friday. I'll be sad to see them leave but glad they are all going to great homes.

Congrats on finding them new homes!!

I bet all the flipping over is much like a child learning to walk and all the falling they do. Seem to hear a lot less of adults falling on their backs...except when trying to scale enclosure walls. Hard being tort "parents" isn't it?...lol

OK the little guys are gone. They were given to two homes that took two torts each. And I miss them. But it does give me a little more free time to spend with My three and Decorating for Christmas.
Yes i guess they are kind of like kids learning to walk but I also found that they were somewhat undernurished and their shells were a little soft so Once they regained their domes they flipped back a lot easier. But they also got a lot more active too. I wish good luck to their new parents.