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We've had a bit of extra time on our hands lately and decided to make a few updates to our Russian's indoor enclosure. We've extended it by 10-inches on one end (now 9 x 4 feet), re-lined it all, replaced the substrate and added a few extra plants. She's got 3 different basking areas with new...

We've just upgraded from a 4x4 to a 4x8 foot table for our little tort :)(About as big as we can possibly fit in our apartment!) She's about 13cm in length, 320g, so far from fully grown. But we are hoping this will be adequate for her for years to come.

I am hoping somebody in the forum may be able to offer some advice here- for the last couple of days my tortoise has been making a tiny coughing sound. She's done it a couple of times after eating or doing something strenuous (such as lifting herself up onto a rock, or making a poop.) You can...

I was just after a bit of advice regarding the weight of my tortoise. She's currently a very big fan of eating, but is unfortunately very inactive. She spends most of the day basking under her light, napping under her heat lamp, and wandering around a tiny bit in between to search out the best...

For the past 2 weeks my tortoise has been passing urates almost daily. She passes them together with her urine every time. I've been doing research on her diet, and I don't think I'm doing anything wrong food-wise in terms of excess protein or oxalates. Of course, it's winter so I don't really...

In the past couple of weeks, our little friend has become an eating machine. She previously ate very little - some days not eating at all - and has been fairly inactive for some time now (which I am guessing is still mostly to do with the fact that it's Winter). What worries me though is the...

Just wanted to post a few photos of my enclosure as it's had a few updates. We put a ceramic heat lamp in by the hide our tortoise sleeps in, to help keep the night temps higher (upping the heating in the whole apartment by 3 degrees at night was not very cost-efficient!) That seems to be...

About 10 days ago after re-organising our little tort's habitat, she had 3 or 4 days of NON STOP activity. She was walking and climbing around and around for 12-13 hours at a go, even after her lights went off. Unfortunately about a week ago, I found her on her back in the corner of the...

My apologies for the frequent posts- I am very new to this and really appreciate all the help and info that I've gotten from experienced members here! I just had a question regarding sleep patterns. A while ago I started noticing that Oki (my 2 year old) was going to sleep in her hide earlier...

So, we've had out tort for a little over 5 weeks now. She seems to be adjusting to her environment now. I thought I'd post a few photos of her enclosure- we removed all the flip hazards and slowly reintroduced things, and are now pretty comfortable with the arrangement. I had a few plants in...

I've had my Russian tortoise for close to 3 weeks now. As I mentioned in a previous thread, she had no problem eating for the first week. She'd happily eat out of my hand or off her feeding plate, and would eat anything we put in there (lamb's lettuce, endive, dandelion greens, kale, etc.) But...

Hi everyone- I'm after a little bit of advice (my apologies in advance if this is a long post!) Two weeks ago we got our first tortoise, she's about 2 years old. She only took a day or two to get adjusted, and settled into a a routine the first week: she would go to sleep early in the afternoon...