Sorry about the continous flow of questions...
Are there any brands of these basking lights that are better than the others?
More importantly, I was "bathing" him today and noticed that there was a fair amount of dirt stuck to his underside - right in the middle...as I was trying to clean...
oops sorry about the mistaken posting...Upon returning home from work I could see that "lil' jimmy" ate the chopped dandelion greens!! I was searching the backyard - again - looking for other little ones, but to no avail ( we actually took 1/2 of the clutch of eggs and placed them indoors in an...
Thanks for the advice...I chose the aquarium because it was handy...the characterstics of the enclosure should be; walls high enough that he cannot escape, yet low enough to allow more air...like one of those lizard/snake things? They seemed to have too small a footprint to allow him to roam...
I adopted three CA desert torts a few years back...based upon the PO's expericence of 40+ years, never had hatchlings...I was suprised to stumble upon a clutch of eggs this year ( 1st time in several years since adoption ) and even more suprised when gardening Sunday to find a baby crawling...