Recent content by alexpt

Adding a bit more substrate and pouring water in every other day worked very nicely for the humidity, I'm keeping it above 75% now. :) I still take the lid off at night to lower the temperature, which lowers humidity to the 50's, should I stop doing that and get a weaker heating lamp? Also...

So after reading the hermann caresheet, I have some doubts/need some advice. As I've said before I usually keep the lid on the enclosure and remove it at night, so temps are ~30° during the day and ~21° at night, which I think is pretty good, right? I'm having problems with humidity though...

Here's a picture of the new guy (name tbd), he's so tiny compared to the sulcata. He's a western Hermann and most likely a boy according to the guy who sold it to us.

So I have news, talked to the guy who sold her Lenny and after explaining him our situation he accepted to take him back and he will give us a much smaller hermann tortoise. I'm sad to see him go :( but I couldn't provide him a good home.

Hey! My name is Alex, and I'm from Lisbon, Portugal. I currently have two river cooter turtles, one has 6 years (Guigas) and the other one 4 (Sonasol). For the past 2 years, I wanted to get a tortoise for some time and since we moved to an appartment with some available space last year, the...