Dehydration

[DoctorCosmonaut]

I don't soak my girls too often, unless they are dirty. Neither seem to like it, they always just want up and out (and no I'm not sitting them in boiling or freezing water). They usually don't drink because they seem to preoccupied with not liking the soak (not that they haven't drunk while in there).

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I just mist, provide clean water (change it once to twice a day), and mist them/their food while eating.

[GBtortoises]

(02-11-2010 02:45 PM)DoctorCosmonaut Wrote:  I don't soak my girls too often, unless they are dirty. Neither seem to like it, they always just want up and out (and no I'm not sitting them in boiling or freezing water). They usually don't drink because they seem to preoccupied with not liking the soak (not that they haven't drunk while in there).

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I just mist, provide clean water (change it once to twice a day), and mist them/their food while eating.

If you're providing water within their enclosure what would be the need to remove them and water them anyway? I do the same with my Redfoots (offer constant clean water & misting) and I never remove them to offer them water elsewhere. They're entire enclosure is moist all the time. But other species cannot (and should not) be kept like Redfoots and vice versa. Dehydration oddly enough, seems to be a problem moreso with arid climate and some Middle Eastern and Northern Mediterranean species. I think alot of it has to do with the misguided belief that they should be kept dry and hot all the time which simply is not true.