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    Need advice: male leopard tortoise dominating larger female sulcata

    Thanks for asking! The leopard and sulcata have been separated since Monday, and they are both acting more calm and eating normally again. The sulcata has the nightbox outside, and the leopard stays in their previous small wooden box inside the house at night. We have managed to separated our...
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    Need advice: male leopard tortoise dominating larger female sulcata

    Thanks, Tom. We will try to modify our existing night box as you have suggested. In the mean time, we have setup the leopard in their old smaller wooden enclosure and will let them out to roam at different times during the day until we get the permanent solution implemented. I am disappointed in...
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    Need advice: male leopard tortoise dominating larger female sulcata

    Thank you for your quick replies. I am sure you are right. We will separate them today.
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    Need advice: male leopard tortoise dominating larger female sulcata

    Two and a half years ago my husband and I got our first tortoises without doing enough initial research. We bought one leopard tortoise and one sulcata tortoise who at the time were the same size, the size of an average fist. Since then they have grown and the sulcata is much larger now (about...
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    My Best Night Box Design Yet

    I didn't realize we didn't do the weather stripping yet, but we were working in the door covering today. Thank you for your observations!
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    My Best Night Box Design Yet

    Thank you so much for the recommendation. We will order those items today!
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    My Best Night Box Design Yet

    Hi Tom, thank you so much for posting step-by-step instructions on how to build this. We followed your instructions and built the night box for our two tortoises. It works great, and we are so pleased. The only trouble we are having is with maintaining the humidity. We have 5 containers of water...
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