Recent content by Shponglized

I have an app on my phone called "Like that Garden". You can take a nice clear pi ture of a plant (details like leaves/flowers etc.) and it will give you a good identification of what I could be. I use it when I'm out and about looking for suitable grub for my tort.

Here's an update of my table. Still yet to get a terracotta saucer but the shallow plastic one will do for a day or so more. He's not going in there as far as I know, although he's getting a good soaking every day anyway. I think he is still getting use to the soil and coir, only seems to want...

Hey all, my little dude didn't seem keen on the pellets (komodo) even when I'd soaked them well. Tried the mashing trick this morning. I didn't mash it as well as would have liked but I think there was enough to coat the leaves I'd mixed with them. He helped himself to some greens and then went...

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Cheers, I'll keep an eye out for it. He doesn't seem to like spending too much time on it, usually going for a bask then moving on to softer pastures.

The wood chips are only about 1/6th of the total area he has to roam. The soil/loam mix is a bagged tortoise substrate I ordered online. I will mix the coco coir with some of the hemp, and also have a pure coco coir area (with his hide). I do have a small water tray close to his hide too, I may...

Thanks for this info. These photos were taken right after I'd finish getting everything in the table, took the opportunity while everything looked neat before he did his own redecorating. I have been regularly misting the substrate once the Tortoise is in there. I am using number of substrates...

Hey all, I bought a baby Russian Tortoise about a week ago and wasn't too happy with a vivarium set up. Just complete my tortoise table so thought I'd sign up to the forums as I was inspired by someone else's build on here. Built from scratch (coffee table for base), everything else is my work...

Hey all, I bought a baby Russian Tortoise about a week ago and wasn't too happy with a vivarium set up. Inspired by your build I went ahead and did my own. And here's the little dude I did the work for: