Despite having a large outdoor enclosure, my Cholla seems to want to spend most of her day in her hide. I thought it might be due to the hot weather (high nineties here for weeks), and the hide is under a big shady bush, so that made sense. However, even though it's cooled off quite a bit...
What's the forums general opinion of Zoo Med's Grassland Tortoise Food? Cholla hated both the Mazuri LS and the Zoo Med formula but now she's eating both.
Me too.
I know exactly what you mean. My favoirte tortoise position is half in half out of her hide with her forelegs stretched out all relaxed in front of her while she gazes serenely out into her habitat. A close second is the superman position.
I am so very sorry for your pain and sorrow. What happened to Hope is the sort of thing we all dread. I am a first time toftoise keeper, so I have no wisdin m of offer you, just empathy. Your description of Hope's awareness of you, touched a familiar chord. To lose a beloved animal...
How kind of all of you and what a surprise!!!! Thank you
For some reason my little Cholla is grumpy today. Actually, it's not a mystery--I put her breakfast salad straight into her enclosure instead of bringing her out for the usual breakfast salad with my husband and me on our patio table...
Thanks to you all, my little Cholla remains a contented and healthy little Chelonian. Her sweet and personable little ways continue to give me and my family so much delight.
I shudder to think how little I knew about how to provide her with the environment or even the food she needs, and how...
Howdy, all!
We intend to use a plastic wading pool as an occasional playpen for our 3 1/2-year-old Desert Tortoise. We want her to able to amble around safely while inside our house in chilly weather.
Cholla already has an outdoor enclosure with the necessary furnishings, but she has long...
A lovely afternoon, sunny but cool, today just lying around in the grass with my beautiful Chelonian baby, as she basked, and grazed, and tromped through her food dish or just relaxed in a modified "superman position" while gazing upon me with pleasant satisfaction.
What a balm to relieve...
Tom, you explanation above.is extremely succinct, clear and helpful. Everything makes much more sense to me now.
If I may trouble you one more time . . . but I just want to be absolutely sure. Should this mini-heater suffice to heat the tortoise house, or do I need to add another heating...
Thanks, Tom. Cholla is 3 1/2 years old and weighs 250 grams. She's about 5 1/2 inches long now,
I do keep her ambient temp indoors (where she's staying during this colder wetter weather) between 68 and 74 degrees. I was concerned because a couple of nights it fell to 58 or 60. This is...
Thanks so much as always, Tom, for sharing your time and expertise.
I'll look for a 400 watt mini radiant oil heater instead of the 700 watt one, to be on the safe side. But how do I plug it into the thermostat?
And just so it's clear to my fuzzy brain, will that heater need to be...
If I use a mini radiant oil heater, do I need any other heating devices in my DT's outdoor house?
It's been a couple months since I posted any threads, so I'll start with the basics.
Background: My Cholla, a Desert Tortoise, is 3 1/2 years old now, about 5 1/2 inches long, and weighs about...