Recent content by BabyBlud

This is Raphael our russian, we think she may be female but not sure on that yet :) We've had her since May :)

Hi thank you for all the links, i had read all but one of them so i'll take a look at the last one tonight. And yes we do understand about the eating of small objects, we never leave her on her own unless she's in her den. I didn't realise dust could cause constipation but as i said we watch her...

We google searched certain questions about tortoises after my 7yr old asked for one for his birthday. Every question we asked had this forum as the first choice :)

Thank you!! I did have a feeling just wanted to be perfectly 100% sure. Thank you very much, i have tried to use it but can't tell at the moment, i've saved the picture anyway and going to try again in a month or so, see if there's any likeness. She does tuck her tail in quite a lot much like...

Hey guys, sorry for the slight delay been busy with work and family life, also had some lovely weather just at the moment so been to the park for hours on end, finally got loads more photos of Raph and managed to get them on to my computer (found out my USB cable is kind of screwy) anyway...

That's been our problem as this is the first ever tortoise we have ever owned we can't compare and the net and books we've bought don't actually offer any life-size equivalents to do so. Even the vet said he wasn't sure which put me on a downer as i was relying on her to be the ultimate pro haha...

Believe it or not horsefield is another name for russian tortoise and that's what the pet shop sold her as :o so i am ok in giving her certain fruits as well as the salad and flower mix *sigh of relief* thank god for that XD you've been a big help to me thank you very much :D

Okay here goes, here's the only photo my phone allowed me to post on a facebook message to a friend and came through :0 I hope you can help

Hi Zero-pilot :) yes we bathe her in warm water a mixture of tap and filtered same with her drinking water, she's quite used to it now. The first time we gave her a bath all she wanted was to climb out, i can't blame her i don't think the pet shop ever gave her one. A photo will be up as soon as...

Hello everyone, my name is babyblud but people in other forums call me BB. We recently acquired our very first tortoise (extreme tort novice right here) 6 weeks ago and have actually used your forum for many different things without actually signing up XD We bought her for my sons 7th birthday...