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I have 3 extremely high prey drive dogs (whippets), they regularly kill squirrels, birds and snakes in the yard. My solution is never together with the tortoises, and I do have electric fence around open enclosures in the yard where the dogs have access. They also have a pretty solid "LEAVE IT"...

Mine does the same, he actually has an "anole cry" where I know he's brought lizards into the house. He drops them mostly unharmed, and then its chaos as they take off and 3 very prey driven whippets go nuts trying to catch it.

Strictly indoors with access to a large screened porch, so may have been anole and bug supplements.

Definitely in between. Brown balls are maybe once a week in the winter, monthly in the summer. I get a variety of greens, spring mix, collards, turnip, mustard, kale and grow endive, escarole, chicory. I supplement heavily with dried greens (Kapidolo farms of course) and usually use a fistful...

During the hottest part of the year here (North Florida) I’ll use shade cloth or aluminet to give my redfoots more shade. They really like being able to hunker down in the soil in deep shade.

Maybe reach out to the Kleinmanni Assurance Project? They’d know who is working with Egyptians in Florida. https://www.kleinmanniassuranceproject.com/

I just wanted to mention that if you want to grow greens for supplemental feeding hydroponic indoor gardens like the Aerogarden work great. No green thumb needed. These have basil, endive, escarole and lettuce varieties

Yes, and I was assured that 2 male Pelomedusa could live together. We’ve watched them very closely since Dattebayo arrived (he was in a shelter in Northern VA) and they’ve gotten along great. We will continue to keep an eye on them.

So both male? Phew - thank you! Then I don’t have to worry about scrambling up a nesting area. This is what had me worried.

I thought I had 2 male Pelomedusa, now I’m not so sure. Did catch definite mating behavior last night. I’m sure my older (19 yrs) rescue Dattebayo is a male, I thought Lazarus was but in comparison maybe not? Can anyone weigh in on Lazarus? Lazarus Lazarus Dattebayo Dattebayo

We were lucky in Jacksonville, some wind and rain and have some standing water but no damage. Hopefully the St Johns river doesn’t flood too badly, it’s across the street. We didn’t even lose power which is amazing. Checked everyone this morning and they’re all good. I had all my evac bins...

I have free springtails too, and added powder blue isopods to all of my enclosures, Burmese stars included. None of them seem to notice and they do help clean up uneaten greens.

The 2 larger (Nebula and Gamora) are a little bit older. They’re from different a breeder from the smaller one (Mantis).

Dont worry, they get used to soaking. Here are my three doing their daily soak. They get 20-30 minutes a day in shallow 95-98 degree water. I use a cooking thermometer to check the temps. They almost always poop in there.

A mixture of everything, I try to get as much variety as possible. Greens (spring mix, escarole, dandelion greens, chard, collards, kale, weeds) opuntia cactus pads, fruit (strawberry, blueberry, mango, banana, papaya, melon) veg (green and yellow squash), hibiscus leaves and flowers and...