Great job T-P,
I'm sure your tort will be happy in his newly refreshed home.

Your spelling was right T-P it is Hemp Auboise or Hemcor. This is the inner core of the hemp plant. Don't know if you can get it in the USA.

The hide is often called Fiddle Sticks.
they can be found on Amazon.com and at
http://www.southernagriculture.com/south...ddleSticks

thankyou crazy1, also..thats what my package had on it Small Animal Fiddlesticks
NEW LOG HIDE

I thought your tortoise would eat it so thats why I thought it would not last long.

This post was last modified: 09-15-2007 06:11 PM by Rees2.

Oh they do eat it, but only to a degree, they actually went through a stage of eating lots of grass..now they just nibble it in the evneing when they might get abit of a erge to eat.

I'd be a little concered about them falling off the edge there and not being able to turn over if they land upside down.
Nice use of a rabbit cage!

Laura,
I have Greeks and they love the fiddlesticks hide. they climb on it and often fall off. But the Fiddlesticks are nice as they are sticks that have been wired together and you can bend them to make them high or lower depending on what size tort you have. I change the configuation from a high mound to a low with a slope to help them climb. They don't seem to have any trouble righting themselves when they flip. I just have a substrate that is not slippery. (no glass, plastic etc.) They are either on dirt, turtle carpet, hay etc. And I never put the fiddlesticks under the heat lamp (when they are inside). Mine have been using theirs for a year now and no problems with righting themselves yet.

Hi laura, my tortoises can flip themselves over i only worry about daisy my larger tortoise cuz her shell is slightly bumpy her feet dont reach the floor, but tis rare she climbs anyway.
She onyl climbs when theres new things in the cage otherwise shes under the heat light catching some basking time.

Crazy1, turtle carpet is bad.
Greeks, Hermanns and russians are commonly known as Diggers, they need digging substrates only.
Carpet under basking light maybe.
But no more.