Recent content by Vegasarah

Brandi, can you start another topic on the sulcata forum with all your information about your two babies? I see that you've posted on other people's threads, but you would get better results if you started your own! Information about their age, enclosure, temperatures, and any and all pictures...

What kind of substrate are you using? A simple change in substrate can change the humidity in your enclosure completely! And it's cheap to do if you buy like a big bag of peat moss from Home Depot. It's less than $10 a bag. Here's a link to what it looks like...

This is really cool, the only thing I would suggest is make sure that your humidity is never below 80% for the first year or two of her life. Will she live outside full time?

Plastic kiddie pools with a little door cut out of the side are awesome too!

First off, I'm so jealous. I can't wait till my baby grows up big and pretty like Crackers! Second, does he have a water dish that is big enough for him to sit in? I am pretty sure that even as adults they should have access to a big water source like that. My sully poops in his water dish a...

http://www.tortoiseforum.org/thread-32333.html Check out this thread, you can see some great examples of how other keepers modify their glass tanks to suit their needs. Most totally seal the top with like plexi glass or just use the foil trick, then put their lamps down in the actual enclosure...

I'm glad that you are trying to help your little guy! I know I made the right choice by not returning him, he has been such a joy in my life. I'm glad he's growing so well and that he is happy and healthy! Good luck with your special baby.

I just keep going back to that picture of Cooper... I cannot wrap my mind around how BIG he is! I mean Squirt's only 12 months old and I thought he was growing well. Till I saw Coop! How many inches across is he?

I hope to get there some day with Squirt, he had severe pyramiding at 4-5 months old. He's about a year old right now and he is growing smooth since being changed to proper care. Those pyramids will never go away, they will always be on the shell, but will hopefully be tiny little nubs on a...

This thread is locked now, but this is the first day I got him and a little bit about his beginnings: http://www.tortoiseforum.org/thread-43597.html I'm guessing he was about 4 months old when I got him, and I've had him for like 8 month now? I can say that keeping them VERY hot and VERY wet...

The substrate is just damp, it's really deep, so the under part is soaked. But the top couple inches is pretty dry from the lights. I love the picture of him next to his old dish, really gives you an idea how much he has grown in the last 6 months! Here's some pictures of how little he was...

Hello everyone, I just wanted to say that Squirt is doing wonderful as far as I can tell. Eats like a tank and is always cruising around his enclosure. If anyone remembers, I got him last year in March and he had really bad pyramiding as a baby. After keeping him in a 'closed chamber', he has...

I meant that you can't add boiling water to the substrate with the babies still in the enclosure, it could burn them. Give them a long soak once a week when adding the hot water, giving the hot water time to cool down before putting them back in their enclosure. Sorry that was not more clear.

Just misting is fine, and once a week or so you can take the babies out for a long soak or walk around and dump a cup or two of very hot water right on the substrate. It will absorb into the coco after a few minutes, then you can put them back in. Another thing I do is take a terracotta dish...

Let us know how he does with the changes in care! And we love pictures! ;)