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    Chronicles of Kronos

    He's not quite a year and a half yet but today he weighed in at 211 grams. I'm trying to keep this thread updated occasionally so it's easy for me to go back and see his growth.
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    Chronicles of Kronos

    Hello everyone! It's been almost 10 months since my first post here. Kronos has gone from 43 grams to 152 and he's about a year old now. For a while it felt like he didn't seem to be growing at all and now all of the sudden I can really tell how much bigger he's actually gotten. It seems so slow...
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    New redfoot enclosure - give me your opinions

    Hmm, I haven't hear this. Honestly I only have white ones because I ran to the dollar store to pick them up and it was all they had. I double zip tied everything just in case and have plenty extra if I need them. I didn't want to overdo it for when I need to unmount the light fixture to change...
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    New redfoot enclosure - give me your opinions

    Thanks everyone :) should I worry about the fake plants getting under the CHEs? I don't want to create any fire hazards. I know young ones spend a lot of time sleeping but he seems to be exploring a lot and if I had to guess, I'd say he likes it. He had himself burrowed in the substrate last...
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    New redfoot enclosure - give me your opinions

    I got my baby redfoot Kronos in June and we've upgraded him to a 75 gallon tank. It had a DIY mesh lid that I covered with plastic drop cloth and tape. I just added a second CHE and mounted them and my 18 inch UVB bulb to a 1x2 with zip ties as pictured. Both CHEs are on their own thermostat and...
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    Chronicles of Kronos

    Here are some pictures of the new enclosure and current pictures from today... Not sure about this eco earth substrate. You can see it's all over his face and he drags it into his water. He seems to like the PVC hide I got for him! Fake plants but I have them up high because he tries to nibble...
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    Chronicles of Kronos

    It's an 18 inch UVB bulb. In the 75 gallon it's not very close to him but I'm attempting to grow plants so I don't want something too small. I added fake plants for shade from the light for now. I'm using a CHE but I'm adding a second CHE to spread the heat out because the single one gets really...
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    Chronicles of Kronos

    Alright so I haven't posted here in awhile but I weighed Kronos again yesterday and he is now 104 grams, up from the 43 grams he was when I posted on June 22nd. Hopefully that's a good growth rate! He's got his 75 gallon enclosure now that holds humidity a LOT better than his first one. I just...
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    Need advice changing enclosure & sanitizing

    We currently have our 2 month old redfoot in a 40 gallon tank. Despite covering it with tape it is still not holding humidity. So I have a 2' x 3' PVC enclosure that has a mounted radiant heat panel but it has a cornsnake in it at the moment so I'd like to switch the tortoise and corn snake. I...
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    Chronicles of Kronos

    Well I thought I'd start a journal to track my little guys (or girls) progress. We bought him some frozen mango (which he LOVES) and yesterday we fed him an earthworm. He truly is nature's garbage disposal. I swear he will eat anything. He's been eating a mix of dandelion, plantain, and clover...
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    Animal Plastics T100

    I follow Animal Plastics on FB and they recently posted that they bought a new facility and CNC machine as well as hired more employees so this should be a huge help as far as wait times. I don't have any of these cages for tortoises but I also keep snakes and can confirm that they hold...
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    New red foot owner

    Thank you to everyone for your replies! We picked the one who was biting everything at the expo. Kody got nipped a few times the first day (even drew blood lol), so maybe that helped as far as him eating well for us. I'm also surprised I haven't once seen him attempt to eat the spaghnum moss...
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    New red foot owner

    A little about me, my name is Taylor and my boyfriend Kody of 6 years' favorite animals are turtles and tortoises. We also have four snakes, three cats, three dogs and a hedgehog. We used to have a Russian tortoise from a pet store who randomly stopped eating one day and died the same night. We...
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    Meet Kronos!

    We got our baby red foot last Sunday at a reptile expo. We were told he was 11 weeks but a Facebook group informed us he looks more like 4 weeks. We have him in a 40 gallon glass tank running a UVB bulb on a timer and a CHE but I plan to replace the bulb with the long tube kind and I need to...
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