Unfortunately, I do not know what his weight was.
Here is a picture of the enclosure (in the pic it's half reptisoil and half orchid bark, because I ran out of orchid bark at the time, but the soil was swapped for orchid bark once I got more - no other changes though based on this pic). Also...
Pretty certain on the temp- we had a digital thermometer on either side of the enclosure and also a thermo gun. To the best of my knowledge he was hydrated - long soaks everyday and I saw him drink every time. Just a 65w incandescent flood light, 10.0 UVB T5 HO strip, and a CHE. Initially, I had...
Hello, looking to see if anyone can give me any ideas on if I did anything obviously wrong/ what possibly caused tortoise's death??
We got a baby red-footed tortoise (named Peepers) about a month ago and he unfortunately died this morning.
This was my first tortoise and I am feeling pretty...
We have two digitals on both sides of the enclosure; we just haven't taken the disc out yet, it was just a place holder for the first couple of days while we were waiting for the digitals to arrive in the mail. I took out the smaller water dish and am planning on buying a terracotta saucer...
Thank you for your response! I think you were right - the issue was the lights being too bright. We have a CHE, a 80w UVA/UVB, and a 10.0 UVB light strip 39w. After looking into it a bit more we found we don't need the UVB light strip since we have the UVA/UVB bulb? We took off the UVB light...
First time caring for a red footed tortoise and am looking for feedback on if his enclosure looks suitable/would need any adjustments? Left side is a combo of coconut coir and topsoil, ~85 degrees (little less than 90 directly under lamp), usually between 70-85% humidity. Right side is just...