Oh awesome thank you so much! FYI, I was not home when I was reading through the original one and I had bad service at work, but I’ll check out the links now that I’m home. Very very good information.
OK awesome! Thank you for the information! So I guess I’m confused, you said it was too hot outside, but she is OK to be outside as long as she can burrow? So if she isn’t able to burrow because the ground is hard or she’s little should we dig a burrow for her, how deep should it be? As far as...
We just got her inside, the garage is in the 90s so that’s where we are bringing her today and I’m looking into humidifying evap coolers to put out there.
Ok, I have a heating pad I was going to put under some
This is all great information! So even though my cousin had her in a very small enclosure (I’m texting with him) he said dumped piles of ice in her enclosure twice a day during the summer, and he DID use a reptile heater all winter. So I’m...
OK, here’s a photo of the current enclosure as requested, like I said it’s approximately 5‘ x 6‘, literally just measured it. And it has a little inground, soaking pool and a covered area with some gravel and desert sand, which is just what the yard is, and some orchid mulch.
She’s almost...
OK, so that’s interesting that you said that, I was just texting with her previous owner and she said that he felt like he used the hibernate phrase a little bit recklessly. He said that he never stopped giving her access to food or water and she would eat and drink regularly, but she was just...
That’s good to know, I’m glad to hear yours has started growing! The tortoise specialist who we talked with in Phoenix said he has seen some that are around 8 or 9 inch Sulcatas but he’s never seen one this old, be so tiny so he said he really can’t say for sure if she would grow or not he’s...
OK, this is all really great information! And I did read through that new members post with all the care information. We’re definitely going to implement a lot of the things suggested in it, but we were happy to get confirmation that the previous owner was at least doing a lot correct with...
Awesome, thank you both so much for the information! We actually do have her in a chicken coop right now, I just measured it and it’s 6‘ x 5‘. But like I said, this is just a temporary one for the next month or two and as soon as it cools down, we’re gonna go outside and build a much larger one...
We took over the care of our tortoise Schmidt a few weeks ago, from a family member who was moving out of the country. It’s wild, we were told she’s either a Sonoran desert tortoise or a Sulcata and we have an appointment coming up with the vet and a tortoise specialist soon to try to get it...