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Hi all, My Sulcata Tortoise Littlefoot will be 1 year old this May. He's somewhere around 4-5 inches big. This morning I had quite the scare when I realized that he had a piece of his Repti-Bark substrate lodged in his mouth. He has used Repti-Bark substrate almost entirely since I have gotten...

Thanks for your help! What would you suggest I do to raise the temp at night, simply buy a higher wattage bulb?

I mean that the top of the terrarium and one of the sides open. It's not drafty, I just meant that it's not stagnant and smelly.

Alright, thanks! I'll make sure I go get another bulb that stays warmer for him.

Here's his enclosure. The water looks funny because it's how the vet told me to give him his antibiotics. His food dish isn't in the enclosure at the moment, but it's a small flat dish that goes in front of his hide. His hide has sphagnum moss inside to keep it humid. Substrate is repti-bark. I...

What about the softer texture of his shell? Give more calcium? And are his swollen legs something to worry about?

Hello all, I am concerned about my five month old sulcata. He hasn’t been doing so well. He was sick when I received him three months ago. He has already completed one course of oral antibiotics. I took him to the vet again because I didn’t think his respiratory infection was ever fixed, and...

I took my Sulcata hatchling to the vet today for the twice time in as many months. He had all the symptoms of an respiratory infection and the antibiotics I had been given two months ago didn't help him. Anyway, the vet decided to do a stool sample and found that he has intestinal parasites. He...

After a lot of thought, I decided to purchase a sulcata tortoise online and have it shipped overnight to my house after I had a habitat established and ready for it. The company I purchased my sulcata from sent it in a plastic container with a lid that had holes in it, and the bowl had a cold...