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Here is a picture of the enclosure

My make Russia is around 5-6 and ready for hibernation if i decide to let him hibernate this year....(any ideas on hibernation please)....my main question is....what do you think about keeping my tortoise outdoors providing a rig up some heat source and light , only thing is he's too big now for...

Russian make around 4 - 5 inch long 3 inch wide , closure is 3ft by 2ft

Through the night lights off so around 69•F and through the day around 13hours 90•F

For a while now my male tortoise has being asleep, he usually is ok and quite active but for some weeks now he doesn't seem to come out for food and if i encourage him out he won't eat or maybe just has a nibble and goes back hiding , why is this? Don't want him getting ill etc his temps are ok...

The heat is at around 82 degrees Fahrenheit 12 hours a day and at night the temp doesn't drop any lower then 60F , the enclosure is big enough as she is only small at the moment , as for the shell it's nice and hard only the plastron is a little spongy .

It's a fluorescent tube light but obviously it's uv, as for the heat light its just a 60w heat lamp, have not had chance to post a picture as if just finished work, if you look at my profile picture that's the habitat it's in.

I have taken in a new tortoise some months ago , she is only small at the moment maybe 2 years old, it was brought to me in a plastic tray with only a hide and a heat mat!! It now has an open top box with coco coi substrate , a uv light and a heat lamp . I recently noticed an eye problem with...

my tort flashed his bits at me this week so It has now been confirmed ! Does it mean anything when he flashed me? Thanks

Hi My tort is around 5 years old and 100m in length. If anyone saw my earlier thread you would know the story of how I'm unsure of the sex. I was told it was a girl buuuuut then when researching I thought he was boy and after more research I knew that it was very difficult to determine the...

Cheers Tom. Care sheets really good advice. Think I might give some coco coir a try hearing a lot about it.

Hi I'm no expert but I have been using a mix of building sand and top soil, Iv not had any problems with this method and my tort seems to prefer this over anything else Iv tried. I originally used a 60:40 mix 60% being top soil and 40% being the sand. Other keepers may use other mixes or...

My tort is a horsfield not entirely sure but think its a female , and I read recently that there was some sort of formula , think your right with the Jackson formula thing , I was wondering if there was a weight that is sort of seen as a good weight or of a tortoise is underweight etc

Hi I weighed my tort for the first time a number of weeks ago after reading that it's important to know your tortoise gains weight ok. Does anyone know of any ratio or average weight of tortoises at centre lengths or ages? Thanks