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    Problems with hawks

    I got a baby sulcata (Micah) a month ago and I wanted to share a picture. I had a year and a half (Amara) but she went missing. She didn’t burrow or climb out of her enclosure. She wasn’t sick. I feel horrible because I didn’t put something other than giving her a shade on top. I saw some hawks...
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    She is getting so big

    Thank you. They do need the space. They aren’t cheap to take care of either. They get big. Amara is moving her furniture around where she wants it lol. I have four acres so she will have lots of room while she grows
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    She is getting so big

    Thank you so much. She loves her cuttlebone. I’m the only one she doesn’t hiss at all the time. She watches me from her hide because she loves the soaks. I’m so proud of her for being a fighter despite her beginning. It’s so funny when I have to go to the doctor and once the emergency room and I...
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    She is getting so big

    I haven’t posted in a while. Amara is spending all of her time except rainy days and nights outside now. I got her less than a year ago. More like rescued her from a pet store only feeding her cabbage reptile carpet for a substrate and poor lighting and heat source. She was supposed to be a year...
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    Help please. (cuttlebone, stones)

    Just wanted to say thank you and yes she is so great for me. I wanted to update about the cuttlebone. Since I removed it I have had no further problems with Amara passing urate stones. She’s doing great on her natural diet. I have been putting her in her outdoor enclosure a little at a time. She...
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    Help please. (cuttlebone, stones)

    I didn’t realize my post went through it said it didn’t go through. The uvb bulb is 75 watts not coiled by zilla. Zoo meds bulbs kept blowing within a week. I keep the soft white uva/uvb all in one bulb in the middle because it’s a four foot long enclosure. Her basking bulb is 75 watt on the...
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    Help please. (cuttlebone, stones)

    I grow a sulcata grass mix from a site I got from Drew in this forum. I’m not brand new and Amara has been through a lot before me. Her cool side never goes below 85 or above 86. Her warm side stays at 90 to 91 degrees always. I keep her humidity at 80 percent and sometimes I can get it to 90. I...
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    Help please. (cuttlebone, stones)

    Amara is eating great gaining weight but every few days she only eats a little and isn’t herself. I soak daily but I increased it to three times a day when she passed a pea sized urate/stone/ cuttlebone. she rips at her cuttlebone like her best friend. I go through a lot. I’m thinking these are...
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    Not new but need help

    I have earth boxes long rectangular with it’s own drainage in case it’s over watered. The winter I might be moved already. If not I’m in luck. I already have the lighting from my greenhouse I had in Nebraska. Along with heat matts heat plant bulbs and nighttime red and blue lights to promote...
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    Not new but need help

    I bought sulcata African grass seeds. That’s well and good but I have no idea how to plant it for inside and in large pots. I have never planted regular grass seed. I live in Arkansas in lowland with saturated grounds and winter would destroy it. I’m stupid because I thought planting what Amara...
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    So excited

    Amara is a sulcata. I got her last November. I uploaded a picture awhile back. The exotic store she came from told my wife she was a year old. I beg to differ. She was a hatchling who came with issues. They were feeding her nothing but cabbage and her substrate was reptile carpet because they...
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    So excited

    I can’t help it. I have to share my excitement. I haven’t gotten Amara to eat hay yet. Today I put grass I cut fresh from the yard. She took right to it. I’m a step closer. I got her in November and grass wasn’t readily available. She was so young even soaking hay she refused. I had to resort to...
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    As always confused (when to move outside)

    Thank you. I keep Amara nice and cozy inside. I know she needs to be what a sulcata is. I’ll wait
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    As always confused (when to move outside)

    uvb bulbs but uva also? I understand the basking. I didn’t realize coiled bulbs were bad but I never use them. Zoo med makes them and the guy at the exotic store tried to sell me one. I do need to find another brand however. I don’t know about anyone else but I’ve been buying mine through zoo...
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