Hello all! I have noticed that Mikey will not eat his food when sprinkled with calcium powder. Today he had a fit when I gave him his food with powder and I had noticed that he hardly ever eats it when sprinkled. Is it ok to just stop all together? He will not even look at his cuttlebone so...
Mikey fell asleep a little after 6:30 right after his dinner. He didn't eat much so I thought winter was starting to get to him. I was on my way to turn of his light and say good night around 9:30 and he rushed over to his food like "no mom wait I'm not done with that". Silly little guy!
Hello everyone. I have a question about soil that I would like to use as substrate. Sometimes it is hard to find topsoil so I was wondering if this is safe to use. It does list some weird ingredients among nitrates.
Hello there! So we have had Mikey for about two and a half weeks now. He is such a good little guy and I love his personality, I think he likes me after all I am the food lady.
He hates soaks but we continue to do them every other day. His poop looks good to me so far. But Mikey is picky! He...
So I haven't wanted to ask because I feel like I am doing something wrong. We are new to having a Russian tortoise and I have read a lot about them through out the years. I have soaked Mikey twice in the past week that we have had him and both times he seems to have bad diarrhea. We took him...
Hello! My name is Mirza, we are currently living in Hood River , OR. We finally got our new little friend this past Sunday for my daughter Melina, which is a Russian tortoise she named Mikey. She had been begging us for a pet and she asked for a tortoise, she has been asking for the past 4...