Only your thermometer can answer this question.So here is a silly question....but i put some rocks down under the uvb heat light....these wont get TOO hot and burn feet right?? Thanks in advance pic example added.
Well then i am going to say it is not too hot?? On the rocks the thermo os reading 100 degrees.
Thank you
THANK YOU! ...I am trying....I actually do have three but now I am wondering if I shouldn't separate all of them??That should be okay
I looked through your posts to see if anyone had told you yet, but seeing that no one has, I figured you’d like to know: your tortoises need to be separated, or you need to add another to the group. Pairs of tortoises never work, because there’s always a dominant and a subordinate. It greatly stresses the tortoises, because the subordinate is constantly being bullied, and the dominant can’t get the other out of its territory. Tortoises, especially species like sulcata, are solitary and very territorial, and cannot make friends.
If you choose to add another to the group, keep in mind that they still might not get along, and if they don’t, you’ll have to separate them all because if you take away one, you’re left with two.
You have some very cute, healthy babies!
THANK YOU! ...I am trying....I actually do have three but now I am wondering if I shouldn't separate all of them??
Thanks and we were definitely aware that if we had two males when they get older we would have to separate the male's... how many months is it again that you can try to sex them??
I don't quite get it about the stones...can't you feel them and know if they are too hot for the tortoise? And if it gets that hot under the heat lamp won't the tortoise get too hot all over its body as well as the stones?
It's not a silly question, but I think that we all already realise that what we think is "warm" for us may be too hot for some animals, depending on its basking needs. No offence intended, for sure.That's why i started the thread out with ."this might be a silly question."
It's not a silly question, but I think that we all already realise that what we think is "warm" for us may be too hot for some animals, depending on its basking needs. No offence intended, for sure.
That should be okay
I looked through your posts to see if anyone had told you yet, but seeing that no one has, I figured you’d like to know: your tortoises need to be separated, or you need to add another to the group. Pairs of tortoises never work, because there’s always a dominant and a subordinate. It greatly stresses the tortoises, because the subordinate is constantly being bullied, and the dominant can’t get the other out of its territory. Tortoises, especially species like sulcata, are solitary and very territorial, and cannot make friends.
If you choose to add another to the group, keep in mind that they still might not get along, and if they don’t, you’ll have to separate them all because if you take away one, you’re left with two.
You have some very cute, healthy babies!
That is with hatchlings too? I’ve never seen hatchlings fight or have that behavior. Interesting.