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No, its a cleanup with a toothbrush dipped in citric acid and water solution.

Its a common thing, i use citric acid to get rid of the minerals. It reacts with the carbonates and breaks them into CO2 gas. Here is a before after pic:

Its nothing hard, you just need to screw wood plates together. The only skill based part is when you cut the boards to the proper size. You need to protect the bottom with some foil from water.

50% weight gain in 3 month is insane :D Can you share some pics of him? ☺

Hi Forum Members, I just wanted to share my one year experience with a possible use of MVB bulbs. I have a yearling sulcata, and originally i bought him for UVB source a 100W MVB bulb. According to this forum i dont put it in his enclosure, but i dont want to waste my money so i started to use...

The function finding a persons threads or content, dont work also since ~october. :D

Wow, intresting that he is lighten up so quick.

I think it depends on how old the top layer of their shell is, it will all lighten over time. The new growth lines are always dark, and i never see older ones with dark color. It can be related with humidity, we keeping them on this forum really humid, so the new growth lines stays fresh and...

I also wanted to share a cute soak pic 😅

You can set it to a wider range, so its not clicking that much. We have technically the exact same setup you can check it here ;) https://tortoiseforum.org/threads/sulcata-indoor-enclosure.208843/#post-2087281

Really nice setup, he is a lucky tort. :) I set the thermostat to maintain 26-27 C close to the wall in the middle of the terrarium above 5 cm of the substrate. There is some corners where its only 24-25 C, but never had any problem with temps. Urates are normal, if there is no stones just...

Poops my god, my sulcata is ~700g finally i was abble to convince him to poop every morning during soaking. It means everything from a cleaning point of view. Now i am thinking, how can i maintain this, even if he will be 100+ pounds, for the rest of my life.

Yeah, two weaks ago we got here 6-7 days of spring with temps in the high 50-s, dandelions instantli started to grow, its insane. I never noticed this before i got a tortoise to feed :D

Pine toxic? No pellets there its bark.

I am almos sure that the spilled pellets causes it, because its only grow near of it. The other part of the enclosure where the greens are during the day arent infected. And this was the case the last time also. I think i just need to accept it, and change that few liters of substrate monthly...