Recent content by FrecklePeckles15

After a long week of constant checks on my temps, humidity, weight and symptoms, I’m very happy to say that Freckles has made it to 60g! She’s fluctuated from 56 to 53, back to 56, then to 58, then 59 and now 60!!! We’re still not out of the woods yet, but she’s shown minimal to no RI symptoms...

She stayed stretched out and yawned, she also did it this morning when I woke her up. But without knowing if it’s from RI or being comfortable, it’s better to be safe than sorry! It’s hot in there. Africa hot 😂 she won’t get too hot will she? She’s been using her hide which is about 84F/78%...

Awh 😭 I thought it was so cute the way she was stretching; like a flying sploot. Do torts stretch like that when not sick, or at all? We’re really dialed in on her temps now though and I’m confident with her enclosure since we fixed everything. The gasping/open mouth breathing was what was...

Thank you so much! 🥺 she’s not our first reptile, but our first tortoise and we love her so much and want her to thrive and live the best life. I thought I did a lot of research, enough to get us through this stage and I was really wrong and misinformed. I’m so glad to have found TFO! She’s...

I just setup my Bluetooth hydrometer/thermometer. I just put it in the center of her enclosure and set these thresholds to be alerted if over/under. Are they correct? The above comment %/F were done with my handheld digital. Here is what my Bluetooth says in comparison: Direct middle- 67.4%/93.1F

Full body, outward stretches are normal, right? My camera picked her up twice doing a “flying stretch” and I think it’s adorable, but my partner wanted me to ask and make sure she’s not trying to ‘take a deep breath’ or something.

Okay! She was 50g on March 10. 51g on March 17. 53g on April 1 and 56g on April 6!! I just checked humidity and it’s at 71.7%/91.2F directly in the middle on her rock slab. 86.6%/84F on top of her log hide and 88%/82F inside of her log hide!! There’s condensation on the under side of her...

Here are my other pets! I have two female ball pythons; a pied (Smiley) and a clown (Pierce) We have a Lasiodora Parahybana (Hippo), a red corn snake (Herbie), a red tegu (Aero), black and white tegu (Bo), 4 cats all siblings/2 males 2 females (Beanz, Bugz, Carlos and CeCe), an eel (Darth)...

Thank you for your help! I watch my enclosure camera while I’m at work and this is the most active I’ve seen her in a week. Maybe she just really needed to poop. At what weight is she/or will she be out of the woods for hatchling failure syndrome? I will show my other pets too.. I also just...

I was thinking you’d say that about her being started dry. I got her from a breeder out of Kansas City at an expo 😭. I read your threads, I know if anything happens and she was started dry, it wouldn’t necessarily be my fault, but I’m not giving up! She weighs 56g!! Today, I removed all...

Update; after 1.5 hours in a warm soak and some sunshine, she pooped 🥹 finally!!

Warm morning soak for baby Sulcata, Freckles, with some of her favorite munchies!!

Thank you 😊 it’s good to know that even though I think it’s doing something, that 15 minutes actually isn’t doing much. And I always think she’s stressed out when trying to climb the walls, but now I will just let her do it. She used to do it constantly bit now she seems to just go to sleep...

Thank you!! I was hoping you would see my post and reply. I did read all of that forum before my account was approved. I had planned to remove the soil and sand, but still wanted input. I was thinking since the soil/sand is under the top layer of reptibark that it was okay because she doesn’t...

I was growing a mini grass land in her old setup and she loved it, but the plants she has now are a spider plant pup, an aloe pup and a bromeliad. I know she needs more plants and a second humid hide, but I’m afraid of her climbing the other one I have and falling off. I had a moss hide and she...