Hope Peanut is doing well!
I currently keep 4 elongateds housed individually as mine can get pretty aggressive and they are not all the same size. It is amazing how territorial they are especially at a young age.. all mine are still juveniles but
I have seen them all ram each other during soaks...
Another North Carolinian here! I am out of the Wake Forest/Creedmore area. I have also tried feeding my tortoises muscadine grape leaves but they were not interested at all.
While I have not begun growing food for my tortoises yet, I do I feed a lot of turnip greens and mustard greens from the...
You should try introducing more greens into his diet. Such as escarole, endive, turnip greens, mustard greens, or dandelion greens. If he is not taking to the greens you should mix up what he won't eat with what he likes. If you thoroughly mix his food he will be less likely to pick out the good...
I can give you a better estimate if you give me his weight and size. I don't know how big your hand is but I would guess younger than 3 and older than 1.
Try cutting up pieces of what he won't eat and mixing that with what you know he's eating. I liked mixing organic unsweetened applesauce with Mazuri or zoomed pellets back when my elongated were not interested and now they eat the pellets with out complaints for the most part.
Try smashing a...
That is my goal one day, but my hatchlings are, well hatchlings.
However, I actually just added two more elongateds to my creep yesterday! Here's who I would recommend:
So far I have done business with Redfoot Ranch, Southern Reptiles, Hobbs Exotic Reptiles, and XYZ Reptiles specifically for...
I have used both with one of my elongated and he basks under both no problem. However I think that in an indoor setup having lit up basking areas is better than a CHE because they seem to be easier for the tortoises to recognize.
Either way if you provide them a warm enough basking area that...
My little elongated looks the same way too. I think they come out that way from the egg and slowly flatten out over time, well at least that's what has happened to mine since I got him in January. As far as the spots go that's normal coloration for an elongated. Glad to see someone else caring...
As long as his weight is going up and not down! I shoot for feeding my dude about 5% of his body weight in food per day (I soak pellets before weighing them). I don't know if that is a good percentage or not but he's gaining weight so I think it's good.
Probably, no definitely, obsessive but I do the same thing haha. My little guy fluctuates a couple by of grams daily, up and down, but has shown steady average growth. He weighed in at 42.9g in Jan and now he's up to 70g!
I went with the more expensive/difficult approach for my set up and stuck an LED strip onto the reflector of my 48" T5 fixture and used a micro controller to replicate a sunrise and a sunset.
That is what I used for reference and basically modified it to what I wanted (and did the process in...
The reflector comes with 2 clips on either end that sort off snap onto the ends of bulb. I ended up just screwing the reflector into my fixture because the two bulbs were too close together to use the clips in my case, but I think you should have no problem using them.
Seeing as how the 5 in...