Recent content by mrpresitort

Whatever the current total is, I have +1 little guy!

Thought I would update this post! I went to the vet the day after my last post here and now President Tortellini is feeling much better! The two biggest problems were: He had a parasite infection! She gave me some meds that I feed to him twice, the second dose happening two weeks after the...

Tom, I just read through this care sheet. This is incredibly thorough and does in fact answer all of my questions. I see my mistakes very clearly and will work promptly to fix everything. I will be in a new apartment soon that will have much more space for my tort enclosure, so I will expand...

Also thank you for the care sheet. I will read it closely when I get home today. My apologies if any of the follow up questions I just asked are answered in this sheet.

Yes he has several dark areas he likes to rest in out in the room.

Thank you for the help. I have gotten a lot of conflicting advice on how to care for my tort over the past year that I've had him. The vet care sheet I got when I was living in Illinois was completely contradictory to everything else I was seeing online, and many things online have been...

My russian tortoise is a 2 year old (ish) male. He's usually very active in the mornings and goes out in search of food, but for the past week, maybe week and a half, I have had to encourage him to come out of his burrow to eat something, and then once he's eaten he goes right back to his burrow...

I never thought to do that! I'll give that a go then. Enough people are concerned about this that I'm getting worried that this advice I was given a while ago might not have been from someone with a lot of experience. I appreciate the tip 🙏

Thank you for your suggestions! I am very open to soaking him if that is the correct thing to do. I am just worried that the stress of keeping him in the water will outweigh any of the benefits of doing so. I make sure to keep his enclosure nice and humid, and part of my routine for that is...

I had an exotic vet tell me to feed mine 80% hay, but my tort doesn't eat any at all no matter how many times I try to feed it to him. So I've been sticking to various broad leafed greens. I've seen on this site that others have some luck feeding hay to their russian torts. I've also tried...

My vet told me to feed my tortoise 80% hay, but he has never so much as nibbled at timothy nor alfalfa hay, and same goes for hay pellets I bought. Mine mostly just likes salads and weeds.

I'd like to add that the exotic animals vet I went to when I first got my russian tort told me that 80% of his diet should be some kind of hay/grass. I have tried feeding him timothy hay, alfalfa hay, and little tortoise food pellets made of various hays, all to no avail. He won't touch the...