Hi just a query to uk owners. We have lovely weather at the moment and we are going away for a week, starting on Friday. My question is I have our next door neighbour to feed and keep an eye on my two. They have a shed with hatches so I open up in a morning and close at night. To make things...
Hi I’m in the uk and we have lovely weather this week, 18 degrees which is lovely. My two Russians are in an insulated heated shed where they can please themselves if they want to go out or stay in, once I’ve opened the hatch doors. Since the nice weather I’ve had their lamps on till 10 30 and...
Hi I live in the uk ( north west England ) I’ve had a real shock. While trying to find out in the local paper the funeral date of a school friend I came across the death of Hannah Bould. When I first got my tortoise he was tiny and came with runny nose syndrome. I booked in at our local vets and...
Happy new year to everyone ?just wondering what basking bulbs you all use. This is mainly to uk tortoise keepers as I don’t think we can get the bulbs you use inUSA. I changed set up last year to separate lights as before I used the Arcadia combined. I now have a basking bulb and the T5 tube but...
Hi just wondering what other tortoise mums and Dads served up this morning. Here in uk it’s not too cold at the moment but weeds are beginning to die off now. My two had an assortment of florrette crispy salad, a bit of kale, clover flowers, sow thistle flowers, couple of rose petals and...
Hi just thought I’d let you see the finished extension, started last week and finished this morning. Will look better when plants have grown and I’ve also planted some tortoise weeds.
Hi just thought I’d share my enclosure extension. Two years ago I had an insulated shed made with electrics for my two Russians and a garden space for them. It wasn’t long before I noticed the bullying started and my female went off her food. I had to then divide the space inside and out. We had...
Hi I was just thinking , how did the old way of keeping tortoises in the uk work. I’ve read where they just lived out in the garden all the time. What happened when there was a few cloudy wet days, how could they raise there core temperatures to feed and digest their food ? Just a thought.
Hi this is probably a question for someone in the uk. I have a 6 and 7 yr old Russians. They have a heated shed and can come and go as they want. They haven’t been in this set up for a full summer. My question is now that the weather is warming up, today it was 15 degrees with sun. They don’t...
Hi I’ve never hibernated my two tortoises aged 6 and 7 they are housed separate but in the same heated shed. They are Russians, Male and female. My female who is the older one and weighs just over 1000 grams, has decided to do it herself I think. She’s not eaten for about 3 - 4 weeks and dug...
Hi just wondering if anyone out there can help with a Russian tortoise who I think has being trying to hibernate. She is 6 and I have never hibernated before but wish I had this time. It seems that nature has kicked in with her this year and bided herself away and hasn’t eaten for a month now. I...
Hi I wrote last week about Alice my 6yr old Russian coming out in the snow. After viewing comments think we all agreed she was probably a bit dehydrated. Well since then she has had every other day 20mins soak. I gave her one this morning and has she still seems very restless I leave her hatch...
Hi I’m in the uk where at the moment it’s colder than normal. My two Russians Alice and Charlie are housed outside in an insulated heated small shed. They have a wooden portion between them with their own heat bulbs a strip light between them. I’m not hibernating them, this last week while we’ve...
Hi here in the uk most of us have woken up to snow ! We haven’t had much snow for a few years now only up north in Scotland. Went to feed Alice and Charlie this morning, opened Alice’s hatch door and she went out for a look, not for long though ?
Hi just wondering if anyone else has this problem. I live in UK and the weather today has been really good, I think it’s been middle to high 20s. My tortoises live in a shed with both having a hatch door so they can please theirselves when I open it up in a morning if they stay in or come out...
Hi just wondering if anyone that feeds mazuri , zoo med pellets or pre-alpin finds that it fills thei tortoises up and they don’t eat much the next day. I soak mazuri pellets, zoo med grassland pellets and the pre-alpin dried food altogether. My two tortoises love it and wolf it down, but the...
Hi I’ve just ordered a T5 kit for my tortoise shed to give more light and uv. Just wondering if they give heat off as well. What basking bulb do you suggest . My insulated shed is 4’ by 4’ I had to separate them as they are Male and female Russians so at the moment have an Arcadia MVP bulb each...
Hi today in the UK it’s warm but cloudy, no sun. My query is that my two tortoises are outside with access to their Arcadia mercury heat bulb. On thecloudy days do I need to have the lights on or not ? On sunny days they are on timers from 7 until 10 o’clock. They are housed in a insulated shed...