Bab is doing super great! Thank you to everyone that helped me out in mid August when I was having troubles with him. He wasn’t eating or being very active all due to heat and lighting. I now have one of the greenhouse overhead light fixtures for his uvb and am using a CHE 100watt 24 hours a day...
Wow that is a lot of problems! I didn’t realize how wrong I have been doing this. I am going to order all new lighting and fixtures. The space where his enclosure is, is a cubby type situation. So the ceiling is close to the enclosure and slanted. I will get building and ordering to fix these...
Here is the uvb bulb I have been using. I didn’t give the correct name because I didn’t keep the packaging but I took the bulb out to give you a picture. The other picture shows the enclosure area. I don’t have much room to hang anything.
Okay. I will order new uvb and fixture to go along with it. Do you mind linking a flood style incandescent bulb so I can make sure I got the correct one? I’m sorry to be a bother I just want to make sure everything I’m purchasing is correct so I’m not wasting any money.
I’m getting a lot of mixed options and I’m not too clear on exactly what lighting I need. I will replace the flunkers with the incandescent flood bulb as you suggested. As far as uvb, you suggest a long tube over a bulb? But not the one I took a photo of?
He used to eat all on his own and when he started to slowly eat less and less I started to hand feed. I always leave his food until the next morning. I will definitely try this method. Thank you so so much!
I do have one question just for my curiosity. After the food is sitting in his enclosure...
Very sorry for the late response. I have a semi update. I have tried everything with mazuri. Yes I have soaked it. I’ve even tried spreading it on greens and hand feeding it that way and still nothing. Yesterday I added a second heat bulb. “Flunkers incandescent reptile lighting basking bulb 75...
thank you so much I will find the links because I bought the lights back in March. I have fed him spineless cactus pads before and he wasn’t really a huge fan. I have mazuri tortoise pellets and I’ve tried everything to make him eat them and he refuses to.
Do you think I need to take him to the...
1. 4x6 foot enclosure
2. Zoo Med 5.0 UVB bulb and Zoo Med 100 watt heat bulb
3. Coco coir. Cypress wood in one corner
4. Russian Tort
5. 78-83 F varies depending on temp outside. Alaska has no A/C but the temperature will stabilize in the winter when we can control The heat.
6.humidity 40-50%...
His temp is usually between 78-83. This is all new behavior for him. About a month ago he was eating mounds of greens everyday and now he barely eats anything. I wonder if maybe it was just a growth spurt but it worries me.
My tortoise won’t eat on his own he is only eating when I hand feed him and even then he will only eat maybe 5 dandelion leaves and that’s it. Anyone know what’s going on? He also has been sleeping a ton!!! More than usual.