Recent content by wellington

Lol, Otis, that boxie guy is a hoot. You need to make Mabel videos like Otis has

Usually too much breading. I'm with Yvonne, I always buy Gorton's or just bread my own.

Sounds pretty normal to me. One of my leopards and my one Russian do the same thing. The other two leopards are out early then for most of they day, with a shade break in the middle, back out again then in their bed are early.

How warm is warm and how cool is cool? Humidity in the area you live only works if the tortoise lives outside without added heat lamps/lights. It does help a indoor enclosure. It likely isn't anything to worry about, but like was already said, just keep an eye on him to see if it gets worse...

I have no idea about elevation and tortoises. My guess would be it would affect them similar to humans but like humans would adjust The members already tagged, Tom and Yvonne might be able to help. @Markw84 may be another.

Yes they are great. Can pee you off one minute and have you busting a gut the next. Such clowns. Because of health issues in the house hold, we didn't get another one, got a Pom instead. Love my Pom, but wish I had gotten a Bull Terrier instead or a Shar-Pei, they are great dogs too. I used...

Hydrotherapy, yes I had to do it for a rescue leopard. He was very small and I was able to do it in my bath tub.

For the cover, attach either 2x2 or 1x2 to the ends and then a piece across the top and drap regular roll of plastic over it. Hand the lights etc, from the center pole under the plastic You can also rig a free standing plastic top holder out of PVC pipe.

Why species of tortoise and what size is it?

Sorry, I was a little off on the side your enclosure now is going to be. However it's still not a proper size for an adult leopard and one of my leopards at approximately 3-4 years is way past 8inches. My hatchlings would be 3-6 inches at 3 years old. Won't take long for an 8 inch to outgrow...

A 8 inch tortoise/leapard needs a very big enclosure. 110 square is not big enough. That size is just over the size needed for a Russian which is much smaller. A hatchling needs a closed chamber as mentioned above. The size enclosure you have now would work once the leopard was around 3-4...

Dogs and tortoises should never ever be able to get together as the dog will always at some point hurt or try to hurt or kill the tortoise. Doesn't matter size of dog either. On the reverse of that, a large sulcata could easily hurt or kill a medium to small dog, possibly even a large one if the...

I think it definitely has to do much more with his enclosure. It does need to be enlarged greatly asap. You will have health problems with him if it's not done very soon.

If that is its home, it is way, way, too small. Been way to small for quite awhile now. You need to get him a much, much bigger enclosure asap!