Question on this: I only just noticed a variety of bugs in my indoor enclosure. They are not over abundant, but there's a few types here and there- is this okay? I'm torn between it being dirty and it being a little ecosystem...
Mine HATES to be handled, so we try to only do it when we take him out for "walks." He doesn't get to house roam, because when we tried he just found someplace cozy and went to sleep. But in the warmer months we take him outside a few times a week to roam in the sun, which he seems to enjoy. He...
We call ours grumpy old man tortoise. He always draws his head when we come too close, even with food, like we plan to attack and eat him. He's never tried to bite us or charge at us, so I guess that's good? I'd rather not feel like he's scared for his life though.
Also, is the rearranging...
So I didn't ignore what was said here, but he stopped laying like that for awhile so I couldn't catch him doing it, then he started sleeping in his hide again. But he was like that again tonight and I snapped a picture
Granted he is under his lamp, but that's what he looked like.
His new...
We've had our Russian for a month and a half, and are 1st time reptile owners. He is in a much smaller enclosure then we'd like, because we had planned to bring home a baby that day, and ended up with an adult. We figured we would have plenty of time to design what we wanted our enclosure to...
Ok thanks! We need to find a way to plant more dandelion because we don't have many in our yard, and our yard is pretty small anyway. I've been taking them from my parents house too, but same thing there.
And yes i found both the sage and raspberry bush leaves on a food list, and I figured...
I just got a Russian tortoise about a week and a half ago, and the couple of times I've given it to him I've put about half a teaspoon of each sprinkles over his pile of greens. When given the same amount of greens without vitamins he eats the whole pile, but with vitamins he only eats about...