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My friend found this in her yard. What is it?

I guess it seems obvious, but until now I had my tortoise in 6 sq feet because that's all I had room for. He spent most of the day sleeping. Now, I'm no carpenter (in fact I can't even hammer a nail straight), so I bought a couple of those pre-made houses and doubled the space my Sheldon has to...

Mazuri changed the formula to smaller pellets. Sheldon won't eat them any more! It used to be his favorite food. I will mail this bag to anyone that wants it. Otherwise it's going in the trash.

I got my Russian tortoise back in 2011 and I measured his shell, and it was 4 inches long. When I got him, he was very sick. He had worms, and the vet I took him to overdosed him with antiprotozoans and nearly killed all his gut microbes. So I had to feed him probiotics for months. After 2...

I got this by mistake from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0019J2MA2/?tag=exoticpetnetw-20 I got refunded and they told me to keep the moss as well! Which is cool, if I can use it. Will my tortoise be safe?

LEDs are the newest technology and they come in the R20 size (the shape of heat lamps) and work with all the typical heat lamp fixtures we use. Difference being, they don't give off heat, so they are ideal for brightening up an enclosure without changing the temperatures! Got a dark spot in a...

Recently I cleaned out Sheldon's enclosure completely. Took ALL the coco coir out, scrubbed it, disinfected it, and put in all fresh stuff. Ever since then he hasn't stopped moving. Hasn't lost his appetite but he dropped about 20 grams and he won't stop SCRATCHING EVERYTHING. ... is this...

My friend is getting two map turtles on Tuesday. They're too young to tell gender so no idea how big they'll get. He says the people gifting them to him "have everything they need," but we all know how wrong people can be! Aside from the basic info I found here...

Courtesy of my photographer friend: https://www.facebook.com/haylie.m.shackelford

My botany skill is negative, or worse. Russian tortoise. Can he eat this?

Strange little guy. Sheldon's been more active now that he's at normal weight. More active means more curious and it means, apparently, more efforts to communicate. He's also more aggressive. If he's hungry, he'll try to bite me, but not hard. Just as if he's saying... food maybe? Strange. He...

How do I ship it to someone, and who wants it? Amazon didn't want me to ship it back, they said "keep it" and gave me a refund. So I've got this bulb lying around. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006L119W/?tag=exoticpetnetw-20

Looking at reddit's r/aww section I found adorable pictures of animals stretching http://i.imgur.com/rJJnxl.jpg and it hit me... I haven't seen Sheldon let out a big STRETCH. Why's that?

They fixed up my tort :tort: The receptionist has torts of her own and loves talking about them. They treat Sheldon like a little person. The vet is a bit impersonal but he's one of those super smart guys who knows what he's up to. With his advice, we recolonized Sheldon's gut with good...

New plants, that is. I finally planted something in Sheldon's house and he didn't like it! Got very stressed at the 5 little plants I put in! Hoping tomorrow is better...

Had to move away from my roomy apartment into a smaller house. Only had room for a long, thin enclosure, so this one is a bit experimental and certainly a change from the basic bookcase enclosure he had at first. I built it with materials from Lowe's at the cost of about $60. Very hard to...

Took my tort to a new vet today. They did a fecal test and found nothing. Called the first vet I saw (Riverview in Birmingham) and found out they used an antiprotozoan on my Sheldon. It killed the worms and his natural flora. He hasn't gained any weight since the deworming and his appetite has...