Recent content by Maddoggy

I have a plant ID called "Picture This". The first year is free but after that its 2.99 a month. I use it exclusively for finding plants that could be harmful to my two subadult sulcatas.

Awesome my grandmother was from Croatia. And very nice looking sulcata you have raised.

When I die I want to come back to life as one of your tortoises!!

Very nice!!

You may want to reconsider owning a sulcata tortoise if a 9x3x3 is to large for your accommodations.These guys grow large and grow fast.This forum is built on responsible tortoise keeping by responsible tortoise keepers and it takes a special commitment to own and properly house a giant tortoise.

I use about an inch of coconut coir on the bottom and an inch of repto bark on top.It seems a little bit easier to remove tort droppings which i try to do on a daily basis.Do yourself and your new tortoise a favor and read Toms caresheet for baby sulcatas and follow it the best you can and it...

Thank you Tom the dog trainer.I think you hit the sulcata ownership commitment perfect.Everybody loves giant tortoises but having one takes a special setup in the correct climate and its a lifetime commitment,

I think you are right.Sea turtles around here get treated fairly well . Not so well in some foreign countries

I see them all the time when I am offshore fishing.And during laying seasons it's not unusual to see a dozen or so nests along a stretch of beach while cruising along in my boat.I had accidentally caught a juvenile loggerhead in my castnet while catching baitfish at Sebastian's inlet.I...

Im a huge fan of Mazuri Tortoise LS diet. I feed both of my subadult sulcatas that everyday and on warm days they graze. Feeding the Mazuri everyday provides my torts withall the vitamins and minerals that they need plus several probiotic strains are included.I have tried cuttlebone but they...

Jamie congrats , I'll be getting my copies soon.

My ivory male sulcatas name is Lips because he looks like Mick Jagger

Yes you can count me in.Living in south Florida and having two sulcatas I have large outdoor enclosures and its very difficult to almost impossible to identify and eradicate any plant that is not considered safe by tortoise table standards.A lot of the plants I encounter are not even listed so...

Hello and good luck with your shelled friends. You may want to start planning on building a large enclosure for you sulcata.He is going to grow and eventually get quite large.It does take a few years but you will be surprised how fast they grow out of their existing enclosures.They can be a...

Not at all what Im trying to say is you said I hope some new keeper will learn by my mistakes . That has happened to me several times as a direct result of reading your post about Mary. I changed my enclosure design because of your Mary stories and downsized my herd to a very manageable number...