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Hello! Have recently had a leopard tortoise placed in our care. He needs someone that can give him the time and care he needs. Between planning a wedding and caring for our own tortoise we just don't have the time or space for him. He looks to be maybe a year? His shell is a bit soft and he...

After being tortoiseless for the past year and a half I was given this little guy for my birthday...

Hi Guys! I'm moving to Washington in October and can't take my two tortoises with me. They're both Ibera Greeks but different ages. Indie's my slightly older tortoise. 3 years old, a little over 6inches. Fed greens and mazuri. $200. Jasper's about 2.5 years, a little over 5inches...

My golden greek Willow died in the middle of the night. I'm very sad but am glad she isn't suffering anymore. I never talked much on here about her health issues. All I'm going to say right now is there has been something wrong since the day i got her and although i went to many vets no one...

I've been trying to change my avatar all day and nothings working. Usually it resizes the picture for me to fit but that didn't work. So then i resized it myself to 100x100 and it still told me that it was to big. Even though it didn't change my old avatar isn't showng up anymore, just a little...

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My moms friend called yesterday to make sure we weren't using heating pads in the tortoise tanks. Apparently her friend was using one and the tortoise thought the cord was food so he chewed through it. Well it caused a house fire. Luckily her dog woke her up and she managed to get out. She lost...

I've now had Willow for 6 months. She's still only grown 2 grams since I've gotten her, which means she's 24 grams. Her neck still swells up at least once a week, and our vet still has no idea what is wrong with her.(I don't think I've ever mentioned on TFO except to a few of you that her neck...

This is Indie when I got her:

My ibera greek that my dad got me for christmas is finally here! (Sorry for the crappy photos) He's quite the shy little guy.

So I've had Indie for awhile she really healthy so I've decided I want to expand and focus on ibera greeks(or just greeks in general) Since I'm still a newbie to this whole tortoise thing I think its better to focus on one species rather then by a ton. Once I'm confident with the one I have then...

I was recently given an aquarium full spectrum fluorescent lamp. To be exact it is an Aqueon T-8 Full Spectrum Daylight Fluorescent Lamp http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=11743614 I was just wondering, is it safe to use in my torts enclosure? Thanks!

So for those of you who haven't heard my golden Greek, Willow's, story here's the quick summary. The first two weeks she wouldn't eat or open her eyes, she was even scratching at her eyes a lot. After a vet visit it was suggested that I separate her from my other tort. Once separated she was...

I had to clean Indie's enclosure out today and switch her substrate to cypress mulch. While doing so I put her in Willow's enclosure because I had no where else to put her. I had walked outside to dump some of the old dirt and when I came back in this is what I found... Poor Indie looks...

So as it gets closer and closer to college application time I've really been thinking about what I want to do. I grew up wanting to be an animal trainer for film and television but no one was really supportive of that. I've kind of been pushed to go for a more "logical" career, where I knew I...

So I bought two foggers but ones broken so I have to take it back. My question is, should I even buy another one? It's not like it needs to be on all day, so I can just move the hose from one enclosure to the other when needed. Or would it be best to have two?

Well My dad built it for me :D lol Indie and Willow had to be separated due to some bullying so we had to build a new enclosure. At first I had no idea what to do because I had limited space. I looked at a ton of different ideas then just put everything I liked into one! Indie's on the...

Edit: Is it Hygrometer or Hydrometer? My iTouch changes it to Hydrometer... So I'm building a new enclosure for my torts and was wondering what the best type of digital hydrometer would be best to buy? I've been reading reviews on some and so far I haven't found anything too great. Thanks!

So I took my torts to the vet today and it turns out why one of them wont eat or be active is because she's extremely stressed. Dr. Greek thinks my older tort(they are both babies) Indie who is a good inch and a half bigger then Willow is being quite the bully. But the only way to fix this is to...

After weeks and weeks of rearraning, changing substrate, experimenting with hay, and experimenting with sphagnum moss I've finally finished my two greeks enclosure. I didn't want something over the top or crowded so I just tried to keep it as simple as possible. Plus it was super affordable...