Recent content by Mrfuel

Whenever I reach for my tortoise, he retracts, as soon as I pick him up, out his head comes...also have read that holding him a bit upside down will get his head put...... sounds like you need more hands for giving meds.. Good luck

83 on the warm side, mid 70s in his hide, working on getting the light set correctly to get his basking spot in the mid 90s...the new light is different in the reflector department....Russian, approx 4.5"

To be honest, it's what was on sale...turned out that I somehow broke the lamp as well as the bulb. So I also bought a brooding light, and had to re-position the heat lamp higher than its original height.So far the 125 watt light is keeping the enclosure at 83°.

Hi all, I broke my heat lamp bulb. My local home improvement store has 125watt bulbs for $0.84, is there any reason I need to buy one from the reptile shop for more money? I can get 12 bulbs for the cost of one. This is a heat bulb only, I have other sources of good UV light including lots of...

Agreed on the temporary wall..that's a quick fix, and he is supervised while in it. The big project begins tomorrow.

Maybe I need to rename him to Davidoff Testudovitch...lol

Ok...I figured I should post some pics of Dave..

Ok...so pretty sure that I have no clue if Dave is a real Herrmans tort or something else.

No dog anymore...so no worries there.

Thanks for the input...

Daily enclosure, I'll take him in after a few hours...never overnight, etc. Depending on time of day, the enclosure will be big enough to have 70-80%sun.

Hi Tom, outdoors, in the grass under some shade trees, movable, open top with chicken wire for extra hawk security, with a hide in the corner..for my Herrmans..lil guy bout 6" at the moment...

Sorry if this is posted somewhere else. Will torts chew on or scratch walls of enclosures? Don't want to accidentally poison my tortoise. Also planning his hide out of the same material.

Just an update, took Dave outside for the first time today. He took his first poop, I'm way less worried now. Lol. Threw together a quick 2x4 pen that kept him contained while I was watching him..I was going through my scrap lumber collection, and found some 2x12 pressure treated lumber, and...

Hi everyone, first time owner and poster. My new Hermmans Tort is living in a 50ish gallon 4 foot long enclosure. With this hot Illinois summer, I am now planning an outdoor enclosure as well... I've been looking through all these posts and have learned more here than any where else...thanks...