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    Advice About LED and Flood Lights

    Last Fall I came to the Forum and received great help with setting up one of our bedrooms as an enclosure for our 6 year old Leopard tortoise, Reggie. We are heating the room with a oil filled heater. The temp averages 79 - 84 in various parts of the room. The room is 10' x 11' and we have 24"...
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    Growing and using African grass mix

    I bought african seed mix and clover seed from Tortoise Supply to supplement Reggie's diet. It is planted in a flower pot under a grow light and the african seed has sprouted an amazing 8 inches since I planted it 10 days ago! I'm not able to find much information about growing it. I did see...
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    Repti Bark Arrived Damp

    It's me again. We have been working on the new space for our leopard tortoise, Reggie, for several weeks. Many of you have offered excellent adivce to help us along. We ordered Repti Bark for the substrate early on and just opened the boxes tonight to begin putting it down. Several of the...
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    Radiator Oil Filled Heater Help

    I'm looking for advice on what radiator oil filled heater to get for Reggie's room. Our plan was to heat the room during the day with the heater, set the timer to turn it off at night, and heat only the hide at night with a radiant heat panel. The timer would turn the heater back on in the...
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    Vivarium Electronics radiant heat panel

    We received a radiant heat panel this week for Reggie's new hide. We're having trouble inserting the retainer clip that is next to the plug of the panel. Its supposed to snap in but it just doesn't seem to fit the opening. Does anyone have experience with this that could help? Thank you!
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    Need advice about radiant heat panel

    I'm looking for advise on using a radiant heat panel to heat an indoor 3'x5' hide to 80-85 degrees for our 6 year old leopard tortoise, Reggie. We're starting with a room temperature of 72 degrees. What size (watts) panel would I need? I expect to regulate with a thermastat. What brands...
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    Help With Converting Bedroom to Tortoises Enclosure

    My husband and I are looking for help with making our spare bedroom into an enclosure for our 6 year old leopard tortoise. I've learned so much from all the kind people on the forum and respect you all very much. We adopted Reggie 2 years ago when our grandson lost interest in him. We had...
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    Newbie in the Midwest

    Hello, I joined the forum yesterday to ask about shaking for a leopard tortoise. Sorry, I didn’t see this invitation for introductions until today. I am temporarily caring for my grandson’s 20 month old leopard tortoise while they are in the midst of relocating. It hasn’t taken long to fall in...
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    Shaking

    I am temporarily caring for my grandson’s leopard tortoise who is about 20 months old. He’s had him since a hatchling. In addition to making a soaking saucer available in his enclosure, I soak him daily in the bathtub and he poops. Recently I’ve seen him shake after he has pooped and his “male...
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