Recent content by Aleksei

As a note, he doesn't make two-story habitats. The ones he does make are very cool, though!

These are all so amazing. But I have zero building skills. I was hoping for something I could buy. Any suggestions?

I am looking for recommendations for a two-story habitat. Aleksei is getting bigger, and he needs more room, but I only have a certain footprint to keep his enclosure. I did a search, but the links were all dead, so I'm hoping people can offer new links to ideas that I could start thinking about!

I appreciate all the reassurance. I think he's okay. He's going to be a year old in a little over a week and he's up to 245g. He gained 16 grams in one week, and then 2 and 2 the next two weeks. But I think he's healthy and happy, and that's what matters. I rail against BMI for humans, it's a...

I weigh him about once a week, just before I soak him, so yes, at the same time every time. Most recently, on Sept 20, he weighed 225g. (He will be 11 months on the 27th.) I can't find anywhere that tells me how much he should weigh, and he's my first tortoise, so I'm worried. I feel like he...

I am bumping this up again. He's 218g and about 10cm (SCL), which gives him a Jackson Ratio of 0.218, which is supposed to be okay, but he's not gaining much. I weighed him 11 days ago, and in that time, he's only gained 3g. He's ten months old now.

I just got a scale after not having one for a couple of months, and Aleksei comes in at 153g. He just turned 8 months old. He feels a little light, I think. I give him his size in greens three or four times a day, so there is food available all day long, always a variety. I give him (now...

@COmtnLady I appreciate your reply and I know you have the best intentions at heart! However, the package says that I can feed them dry. So I am following the directions as I read them. However, they don't say how much or how often, which is where my concern in the post comes from. I'm still new...

My seven-and-a-half-month-old Russian tortoise loves Mazuri. I have the juvenile pellets; they're very small, and he eats them dry. He will happily eat as many as I give him. He is pretty good at eating his greens as well, as long as I don't put pellets down. I give him a pinch every other day...

I have a seven-month-old Russian Tortoise. I was given this package. I know he can't have the fruit one, but can he eat any of them, even as a treat?

I replenish his food three or four times a day. The moldy food was from the fridge, not in his enclosure, except that I might have accidentally put a piece in, but it was quickly removed. I certainly didn't mean to do that, I had just bought the package! I soak him twice a day, in 95 degree...

He didn't make any noise. He does do that head and arms bob in sync breathing thing fairly often.

I tried my best to search the forum but I didn't find anything on this. Here's the story: My Russian tortoise Aleksei is six months old. Sunday afternoon, I put some lettuce mix down for him, and he started eating one piece. I noticed that the rest of the lettuce in the package was moldy, so I...

I use PowerSun.

I have had him since the end of February. I am worried because he seems more 'round' than before.