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alright i think im going to move him back to his old enclosure with a closed top. and im just measuring the night temperature with a temp/humidity gauge and the cool side reads low 70s like 70-75 i know i should get a temp gun. and my room, where they are kept stays much warmer than the rest of...

yeah im keeping his temps up to 80 and above, just to be clear, should i keep humidity at 80 percent even with the RI? Ive raised the humidity

seems about right, they have all the lighting including uvb tube

ive been keeping him humid like i said, but since he showed symptoms of RI i let things dry up since i saw that suggested somewhere but i am getting the humidity up again right now. he was also moved into a larger enclose recently which doesnt have a closed top which i now realize keeps humidity...

they are kept seperate, the other is a sulcata

My leopard tortoise I've had for over a year now has developed a runny nose that I noticed 2 days ago as well as some gasping. I've seen alot of different advice on humidity for leos and especially for what humidity they should be kept in with an RI. I see people say that dry tortoises with an...

Was just wondering peoples thoughts and opinions on keeping babies of different species together. I know it is not recommended by a lot of people but from my understanding many baby tortoises have very similar care. This also refers only to baby torts.

you can order ants online, however if you order a queen then it cant be more than a few miles away. because ants can destroy an ecosystem they are not native to

I've considered raising a carpenter colony and if i could make money for selling carpenter ants for horned lizards i would.

So here's an update... I named him Frank and I'm currently in the progress of making a permanent outdoor enclosure for him. Whenever I take him out of his temporary enclosure to roam around and graze (because he ate all the weeds in his enclosure) he will hunt down any dog turd I missed while...

Kamp Kenan posted a video on his channel on YouTube of what to do if your tortoise has a prolapsed penis.

At least she doesn't eat the poop, I recently adopted a new sulcata who is 4 years old and he hunts down all the dog poop we missed and eats it.

For night the low is 70 and to heat the night i have a red night heat lamp the uv bulb is a dome light thats all i know

the uv bulb is labled UVB 150

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