Recent content by Yvonne G

Love 'em!!!!! I think the one on the bottom is a different sub species. . . maybe even another male - three toe?

Before I address your concern I have a couple comments before I forget them: Tortoises don't do well in pairs. Tortoises are solitary animals, neither wanting nor needing the company of another tortoise. When they get a little bigger and start getting sexually mature you will have a dominant...

70°F really isn't all that warm to a cold blooded animal. Think about it: YOUR inner core temperature is 98.6°F, and at that temperature your body works. . . food gets digested etc. If your tortoise only has an ambient temperature of 70F degrees, he doesn't work. He needs to be able to sit in...

Soak him in warm water for about a half hour every day. Please let us know how you are caring for the tortoise - what he lives in (indoors or outside), what food you offer, how warm is he (lights? heat?) and anything else you can think of to help us help you

My YF babies live in an enclosed habitat until they're big enough to go outside. Then they have an overgrown, tall grassy area with bushes and trees in the outside portion with overhead sprinkler-type drippers, and a humid area in the inside portion.

Your saying you'll have to build a new enclosure has me thinking you are planning to add the YF into the sulcata's enclosure. Please don't do that. This is wrong in so many ways! - tortoises from different continents have diffrent microorganisms living inside them that could sicken or kill the...

I try to do my taxes as soon as I have received all the tax forms. But mine are damned easy. For the past many years it's exactly, to the penny, the same every year. I could just Xerox last year's, clean it up date-wise and send it in for this years. That's the good part. The bad part is prices...

Looks male to me.

Hi, and welcome!

The side cracked because the beak is overgrown. Biting off his food put too much pressure on the overgrown sides. The front is too long, but the sides are too.

Supplies labelled 'reptile' are way more expensive than the same thing bought at a building supply big box store.

I have a 600 gallon rectangular galvanized stock tank with vinyl pond liner for my snapper. I use the Skippy filter assembly (Google it) and the water is clear as a bell. It's been up and running for 7? 9? 12? years?? Long time, at any rate. I'm using my Kindle ATM and there are no pictures on...

Oh my. . . That's an awful lot of fixtures. Seems an awful lot of lighting with only two shade places (not much choice for him to hide away from the always shining 'sun'). How about a couple three or four potted plants, either real or fake. Remember, baby tortoises are prey, and they are VERY...

They should not be together. Each needs its own yard. Eventually there's going to be a fight, and if you're not there one may end up dead.

I wish I could help you, but I just don't know enough about water turtles to give advice. I'll send a shout out to @Markw84 and @mark1 hopefully they'll have some words of wisdom.