I offer a cuttle bone to our 20lbs female once or twice a week. She chomps them right up. The thing that concerns me is when she poops in her soaking tub we find the broken up cuttle bone. This makes me wonder if the calcium being absorbed or if she is simply passing the cuttle bone. Its not...
My intentions are not to breed them. I understand your point of view on breeding of sulcata. I should have explained my background before posting here. Im far from a "newb" in terms of reptile keeping and breed and rearing and also egg incubation. I dealt mainly in import and on rare occasions...
I appreciate your concern and you make very valid points. However my plan to have a male would not be in the near future. To be fair to the animal I want to get back in the full swing of keeping reptiles. Also considering the size of the greenhouse and other plans for construction even at full...
Thank you! It's crazy that there is so much conflicting information out there. Its great to be able to discuss with folks who actually keep them long term.
This is an amazing group! You guys have helped me re-emerse myself back into the reptile keeping world. So let me thank you all in advance. My wife and I really love our new female Sulcata. We had been considering adding a male. However we have found out that it would not be smart to house them...
I can't thank you all enough! That's very logical. If I consider obtaining a male in the future I'm definitely going to house them separately. I'm currently working on pinning off the basement giving almost the entire floor space of the basement complete with Hide box box heating basking...
I recently obtained a beautiful 18" female she us doing great. However my wife and I didnt want her to be the only shelled family member her entire life. We are considering an 18"-20" male. As far as introduction is there anything I should be aware of in terms of aggression and sleeping space...
Greetings from Indiana! I'm going to vary my Sulcata's diet. However I would like to have these two things as base of the diet. Here is the link to the Timothy pellets has anyone tried these? If so how did it go over with your tortoises? I was thinking of soaking it before offering it with...
We are under construction now will post pics later. For the Indiana winter months we are partitioning a section a room off. Temperature controlled and basking area etc...
My point wasn't that heat tape is out dated or some how lesser. My point was it was one of the only choices in heating at that time. I was around when the 1st heat rock was made available to the public. Before that you would have to visit the hardware store for every aspect of keeping reptiles...
I'm so blessed amazing family and awesome new family member. Its wild that the reptile information has grown so much. So many information sources now. Its nice to see so many folks advocating for reptiles and captive breeding.
My daughter moved off to college and got a job in a petstore where she lives. They had a beautiful female 18" sulcata dropped off at the door one morning. The manager decided to keep her as a store pet. Now a few months later corporate decided its a bad idea to have a "store pet". My wife and...