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I have some weeds growing in this pot, and despite looking at a bunch of identification sheets, don’t feel 100% comfortable feeding them to my Russian tortoise without a second opinion. Does anyone know what these are and if they are safe?

The bulb is a SolarGlo MVB.

This is his enclosure. It is a 5’ by 2’ tortoise table, but I’m planning on building him him something at least a 10’ by 5’ outdoor enclosure (is that too big?) for when it gets warmer, as I have an unused half acre that it would would fit in as a back border. His substrate is cypress mulch on...

Hi. Today a bit of my Russian tortoise’s plastron chipped/flaked off. He has also been shedding some head scales and skin around his neck (I know the skin shedding is normal.) Is the rest normal? It seems to not be, from what I’ve read. How do I fix it if it’s not? He also sometimes quickly...