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That's awesome!

I have knock out roses in my backyard with my sulcata. He keeps them trimmed down through out the summer.

It's not something I feed to him on a daily basis. It's just an extra I give maybe a few times a month. He has half an acre to roam freely where he grazes on grasses and dandelions all day. Poison plant and chemical free enclosure.

Guess it really doesn't matter. My sulcata seems to like it.

Just bought a new container of Mazuri tortoise diet and looks like rabbit food now. What happened to the dog food looking nuggets?

Are Knock Out Roses poisonous to my Sulcata? Thinking of putting some in our back yard.

Are tomato plants bad for a sulcata to eat?

Oh wow. Ok. Yea I was looking at russian pics and wasn't looking the same. The pic is deceiving. His plastron is indented. So most likely he was run over somewhere.

RE: Need Help - Russian Rehab No, not sure how he got it. Looks like he got dropped or ran over. You can't see in the picture but the crack actually goes all the way underneath him.

Our local exotic rehabber brought this little guy to me this evening. I don't have much experience with Russians, so any help will do. Most likely this guy came from the local Petco or Petsmart. His shell has a nice crack and seems to be healing. He is very underweight and skinny. As of now I...

I live in southeast Texas and the days are still in the 80's to 90's. But the evenings have been starting to get cooler.

Well the entire spring and summer my sulcata never went back into his enclosure and preferred to sleep outside, even in the rain. I even tried putting him into it and he would just come back out and go under a bush in the yard. He wanted nothing to do with his house. Well this evening he went...

Is there anything I could put on my sulcata for Mosquitos? They are just horrible right now here in south Texas after it rained for almost two weeks straight. They are just swarming around him. He looks miserable. I might just have bring him in for a few days and spray the yard with Cutter...

I've noticed my sulcata doing the same thing. He used graze all day non-stop. Since the heat jumped up to 90-95 here in texas his appetite has dropped. He even passed up an apple yesterday.

Thanks. Guess I'll go get a bunch of marigolds and citronella plants tomorrow. Was also thinking of bringing him indoors for a couple days so I could spray.