Recent content by Speeddymon

Thanks again for all of the help. He definitely seems to eat the greens as long as small amounts are mixed in with the canned stuff, which is great. I'm still working on getting his outdoor area built. It's going to be big.. Texas big. Just to give you an idea, I bought 2 of the 3x3x3 cubes of...

So I wanted to update everyone on the tort. I tried for two weeks to get him to eat all sorts of different greens. He stopped eating the spinach, and in fact the vet said it was crap for them just like iceberg lettuce. Unfortunately, he wouldnt eat anything at all. I was to the point that...

What is a penate? Google fails me on that one. =( BTW, I'm in Houston.

If only we had any. I switched us to Fluorescent bulbs about 5 years ago. =([hr] Thank you a ton! That answers just about every question I had regarding how I should do his housing. Fortunately it's already gotten really hot outside down here, so I took him out for a little bit while I had...

Thanks again for the replies. The heating pad I have right now has instructions to put it on the side of the tank on the end, and away from the basking lamp, which is what I did. By the way, my lamp's bulb burned out after just a couple of days, so he has no lamp until I get a new one next week...

Sounds good. I hope it likes leaf spinach. I put some in there with a meal worm just a few minutes ago and he's now over at the bowl... Hopefully he took some of the spinach in with the meal worm and will continue to eat it. How much water are we talking? The entire pitcher, or just some? What...

Thanks for the info. I suspected as much about the aquarium. Would the book cases sold at walmart work, so long as I replace the back with something stronger? They are more than 5 shelves and cost about $100, which is still cheaper than the aquarium I have him in now. That brings up a...

Thanks for the replies, I didn't realize when I first posted that the system moderates you, so here's the rest of my plight. I'll try to answer each of the responses also. I'm really not sure how it wound up in my back yard; there's a forest trail that runs through the area, but it's mostly...

Hi there everyone. I'm afraid I've gotten a handful of bad advice along with some good advice. First, let me start out by saying I read the "Tortoise 101" post and plan to refer to it frequently, but that being said, I have many questions. I guess I'll start with how I got into wanting a...