Recent content by J-Lo

No, my son loves Mario games, so it’s Koopa as in King Koopa (Bowser) and Jafar from Aladdin which is one of his favourite films.

Thank you, I will be soaking him every day from now on and not letting him walk on the floor. I was worried the food was drying out again too quickly when nearer to the basking lamp but will try moving it closer. There is a spider plant in there now and we will look for a small Boston fern...

We are soaking him for 15-20 mins in Luke-warm water every other day. The temp under the basking lamp is 30c and we have a rock under there for him to climb on. We recently got him a flexi-hide, but my son keeps putting it as a tunnel for Koopa to go to bed through! The substrate is Hemp bedding...

Hello all, we got our tortoise last Saturday with a starter set. He’s a baby Herman called Koopa Jafar (my son got to pick the name!). When we got him he weighed 57g but today he only weighs 50g! Should I be worried? I hardly see him eating and he won’t touch the pellets provided by the seller...