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The person that brought him in is taking him home. I'm not in that instructor's class, so I didn't get a chance to speak to them, but they probably wouldn't have heeded the advice here anyway.

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Hey all. I'm in El Paso, TX and a instructor at my school found a turtle. Looks like an ornate box turtle to me, but unsure. I don't know how far from campus they found him. I know they shouldn't have moved him but obviously there's nothing I can do about it now. What should we do? (I'm in a...

Off topic but if I ever move to Georgia you can bet I'd be spending all my time there! It's literally my dream to work at (or even own, one day) a parrot rescue/sanctuary. It's good work that y'all do! P.S. Could I get that Hyacinth? It's literally my dream bird ;) :P

His urates are rock hard...I'm doing his daily soaks and keeping the humidity no lower than 50%, but mostly at about 65%-70%. Is there anything else I can do to fix the urate thing, or will it solve itself with time?

I like the concrete pool option, thank you! I also plan on doing something like Tom does for the night box, should have specified.

I know, I just want to be on the safe side. I know they don't dig deep but they dig long, and I wouldn't want him digging so far that he causes damage to my home or something else.

As for shade, I was thinking I'd build some kind of "patio," like a roof overhang from his warm box that goes a few feet out. So he can go under it for shade if he doesn't want to go all the way inside.

Dang...it'll be hard to find a yard with space that big, but I reckon I can make it work! If I can't, I'll try to go no smaller than 30'x30'--luckily I have time to figure it out. Funnily enough, my current home has a non-bearing mulberry tree in the front yard! But unless my grandparents (God...

I won't need to build this for many years as Durda is only 7 months old, but I want all the plans set and ready so I don't have to struggle with it when the time comes. Here are my plans, what should I change or add? I want to have a pen that is approximately one of these sizes: either 12'x12'...

Thank you! It's good to know I'm doing good by my tiny little friend.

Thank you so much Tom! I can't move the lights in, but they are as airtight as my grandfather and I could get them, which should help the chimney effect somewhat. I'm fine if I have to add some water in every day or two to keep up humidity, I'll just add it into my plant watering routine. :) I...

In the veterinary world, "exotic" simply means any pet that is not a dog, cat, or farm animal.

Thank you all so much! I'll keep cleaning it out, if it persists I'll replace the substrate (which my grandma won't be happy about as she thinks I'm "doing too much for just a tortoise."). I have a temp and humidity probe on the warm size taped to the wall with the probes at Durda's head height.

I dumped some warm water in, it worked...but now I have these little patches of white fuzz that I think is mold. I went in an scooped out all the patches I could find but it keeps coming back. Is it dangerous or should I just leave it?

That was my original plan actually! But my grandma wouldn't allow the box to sit any higher, so my grandpa and I had to do it the way in the photos. Do you think adding two more screws in each lamp and making them tighter against the panel would help?

Pictures! 1. The "heating" lid 2. The corner that isn't flush. 3. The plexiglass lid. 4. The very warped lid. 5. Bonus picture of Durda in his basking spot. 6. Closeup of Durda in his basking spot. 7. Durdas burrow

I'll see if I can get a good photo. It's close to it, unfortunately. It has three separate lids: one with the two heat fixtures, my grandpa and I cut holes just smaller than the lamps and drilled the lamps onto the top. It's a little warped so there's a tiny corner that isn't flush. The second...

Hey all, it's been a while since my last update, but Durda is doing great! He gets soaked every day for 30 minutes, I have four pans and 3 little pots of grass growing for him that I rotate as needed, I recently started growing clover and hibiscus for him, and he enjoys the flowers we grow in...

Good news! My grandpa is going to help me build a closed chamber, and it'll be done by the end of November! He's doing it as a birthday gift for me, since it's in a week. So his time in the concrete mixing tub will only be a month. I soaked his eco earth before putting it in so its damp now. I...