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He's awfully cute!

TurtulasLen taught me that if you prune it back heavily during dormancy there won't be any fruit next year. And, guess what? He's right!!

I have a 600 gallon water trough for a snapping turtle. It is filtered using a Skippy filter, which is similar to yours. My filter is powered by a 1hp dirty water sump pump I buy at Harbor Freight for slightly less than $100 (Amazon sells them too). I run it 24/7/365. When it wears out I just...

Never heard of it. . . Google, here I come!

Shown at the bottom of this page is a list of threads where we've talked about having emergency kits for tortoises. Hopefully you'll find some helpful information in those threads.

It sounds like the nictitating membrane. Sometimes this happens when the animal is stressed.

I'd love to see some pictures of Sprinter!

Keep him clean. If you allow poop and pee to stay on skin it's caustic, and burns the skin.

Price is good, but knowing the size is a must.

It's heck to have to live with pain all the time, Ray. Is there any end to it in sight?

It might be curly dock??? If so, don't feed. Take a REAL deep cut with a shovel and see if the root is a carrot-like tuber. If so, it's dock.

I don't know, but looks like a member of the brassica family. @RosemaryDW ?

Are you sure those are from the cactus? I thought cactus roots were shallow.

Not a good idea to allow him to stay outside at night. Every night I go around to all my tortoise yards and make sure all of the animals are inside their sheds. Then I close the doors so they can't come back out until I open the doors in the morning.

Normally I use the corner of a toe nail clipper, but because of the thickness of that beak, I'd use the Dremel. The sides are too long too. Once you get the top beak situated correctly, then you can worry about the lower beak. . . or you may find it's better than it looks at the moment.

Welcome!

Nice that you're able to get tortoises back into your life, Tim, and good to see you back here on the Forum!

Wondering their age

Looks like mallow - edible, and wild mustard - not palatable

Holy cow! She's big!!