Recent content by asterophora

What a cutie, love that lol tongue!

I actually haven't been having this problem anymore thankfully! He's still sleeping a ton though. If you still want to know though his regular feeds are plantain, Violet leafs, Dandelion leafs, and clover from my yard. Occasionally he also gets sedum, lettuce, and cucumber (I prefer to only give...

The only reason I'm coming at this fairly aggressively is because that is the tone that Wellington set with their comments, I also don't appreciate how you say everything as if it's an objective fact. If you wanted to give me advice that I was asking for you could have said it like "well this...

There's not dozens of top tortoise keepers telling me to give less UVB, it's just you. I really don't get how you want me to have a super bright enclosure all day but not have UVB all day because if it was a super bright day all day there's no way the sun wouldn't be admitting UVB. These people...

I'm not doing the things I do just based off of my own judgment I'm doing them based off of peer-reviewed studies and things said by husbandry experts with degrees. Having tortoises for a long time doesn't mean you'd know everything about them, I don't doubt that he's knowledgeable but I'd...

Why do people here hate answering questions so much? I you can't just listen to everything people tell me online without reason I mean if I did that then I would be changing my tortoise care every single day back and forth. I have no reason to trust you over anyone else when you've provided me...

You're assuming that this is the reason he's hiding when we've gone over that it could be quite a few other things like it not being bright enough or The humidity being too low. If the UVB was the problem I would expect him to be dug into the side of the enclosure without it but he always dings...

That's fine but I think it's not unreasonable for me to ask why I shouldn't let him have the choice of if he wants UVB or not

Every article I've seen it says that there is UVB rays all day they're just strongest from 11 to 3 https://share.google/DJVtvM5bTDXSMcpOw I feel like scientific studies are a bit more reliable than A random UV meter since there could be a lot of factors that go into that. Also from what I've...

I will try this but I would also like to say that this isn't entirely true. There is UVB in the sunlight in the morning and evening it's just less than there is midday but not none. There's also a whole other half of his enclosure that has no uvb.

Uvb is 15 inches from the ground and It's on 12 hours a day, same amount as the heat lamp and there's plenty of spots he can get away from it if he wants

Do you think that adhesive strip led lights that would go around the inside of the enclosure would be safe? His enclosure has a lid and it's low enough that I can't put his heat lamps or UVB on the inside and having the lid makes it harder to get it as bright from the outside.

He's captive bread, I got him from the tort stork. I've been misting his enclosure daily now and I recently ordered a smart humidifier that will hopefully work to keep it at the right humidity. I really don't have the money to spend on a new enclosure or the space but I appreciate the...