I’ve today found out that my elderly nan has mistakenly hibernated her tortoise in the freezer instead of the fridge. She’s very upset and mad at herself but her age is against her at the moment and She’s made a mistake.
He’s been in there since October now, I’m going over later to get him out...
I’m writing a school project on tortoises for my college biology. Now I need some clarity , my auntie had 3 horsefields , and she’s had them for years! Unfortunately one died last year in hibernation. Now on a few Facebook groups I’ve heard of many many tortoises dying out here in the uk during...
Hello, currently where we live it’s 31degrees Celsius in our home. With sheldons heat lamp on at the highest setting it’s still reading at 29 which I know is too high for him. On these really hot days should I turn his heat bulb off completely ? Or does he need the light from it too? He has a...
Day 3 of injections and it’s like he’s completely back to normal!! It’s not baytril , it’s engymycin. I didn’t go to any vets I went to a specialist exotic vets
I took him to the vets again today, they’ve given me 2 weeks of antibiotic injections. He seems fine now we’re home, walking around, eating, no sign of a runny nose.
The vet did say “I can’t make any promises because he’s so small” that didn’t give me the reassurance I wanted. But hopefully...
Yeah I’ll try that I just worry about him getting too hot! Is this a thing? The uv bulb is 18 and a half inches from his shell, I know it looks a lot higher in the photo but it’s not haha!
I’ve just converted the temps and My temps are correct based on what you’ve said. He’s 8 months, yeah humidty is usually higher but if he has a possible uri I don’t want humidty and damp to make it worse. Humidity is higher under the soils where he burrows. I’ve added the only photo I have at...
Basking area is 35c cool end is 20c . Overnight low is 20c.
Arcadia 12% t5 , Arcadia basking floodlight.
Slightly damp, I add water twice a week to add humidty and mix substrate. Is coco coir .
Lambs lettuce, raddichio, dandelion, pansey, other safe weeds I come across, campanula
Advice needed!
I don’t think Sheldon is very well. He was rather lethargic end of last week. On Sunday evening I noticed a bit of a runny nose. On Monday his nose had stopped running. I took him to the vets Tuesday just to be safe. She said she could see slight wet of the nose but he seemed...
I’ve just blown my second heat bulb in two weeks. I use the Arcadia ceramic reflector holder (up to 150w) with the Arcadia heat floodlight 75w. I leave the lamp plugged in and use the switch on the wire to turn lamp on and off. It’s blowing when I turn it back on in the morning after being off...
Great! I call everything that looks like dirt soil 😂😂 sorry! No I use coco coir as substrate , this is just for growing food in an area of the garden to pick for feeding. Thankyou!
Hello, I recently planted some seeds to provide more variety of food for my tortoise. I planted them in this soil
https://www.lssystems.co.uk/fertilisers-growing-media/retail/vitax-q4-multipurpose-compost-56l-68pallet-each
I’ve recently read you can’t use some soils. Does it mean my plants...
We’ve tried all shops in the area and none have the floodlight in stock 😒 how annoying! we swapped this one for a non halo spotlight and I’ve ordered 2 floodlights online. They should come Monday, the spotlight will have to do until then 🙏🏼