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    Tom's Brumation Thread

    I live in SoCal, where temperature is 45-70 degrees. Our Russian tortoises live outdoors. I am worried that the nighttime temperature is too low, so I try to bring them in nightly before the temperature drop below 50 and put them in cardboard boxes for the night. Would the stress of moving the...
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    How to make my tortoises eat pellets?

    Thank you, so, it's a very slow process then. They are Russian tortoises, measuring 6 inch x 4.5 inch. Do Russians love to eat that? I felt that the crumbles look even less like food and it will just become substrates for the enclosure, which would be wasteful. I would rather experiment with...
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    How to make my tortoises eat pellets?

    I do feed the tortoises edible weeds and store bought veggies, but I would really like to mix in commercially prepared pellets which can give me the assurance that the tortoises are getting the essential nutrients, also it's more convenient for me. I bought the Fluker's Tortoise Diet, Large...
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    Please Help Identifying Tortoise

    You guys are the best! I am reading and re-reading all the posts. Some recommendations are harder to implement, I have to digest and figure out what to do.
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    Please Help Identifying Tortoise

    Can anyone tell me what these are so I can better take care of them? They are likely very expensive, as they were my sister's rich boss's but she was irresponsible and left us to take care of her pet, and since it's still technically hers I am not allowed to find them better owners either. She...
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