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    Leopard Tortoise for Sale Young - Birmingham AL

    I have a young leopard tortoise I need to find a good home for. I am selling for $60. I'm in Alabaster but can meet you close around Birmingham. I'm more interested in finding a good home. Eats like a champ but loves weeds from your yard. Like crabgrass. PM me.
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    Young Leopard Torotise for Sale Birmingham AL area

    I'm selling a young Leopard Tortoise in the Birmingham, AL area if anyone is interested. My plans to extend my fence fell through and I'm not going to put him with my adult sulcata. He is very very active and eating everything. http://bham.craigslist.org/grd/4657856058.html Leopard Tortoise...
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    I ran over my tortoise

    That makes sense it would be easier to clean.
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    I ran over my tortoise

    Keep it clean like you would a cut. If he makes it a few days then get ready for shell repair. It's kinda a judgement call if you think he can make it. My dad fixed the shell of a red eared slider we found on the road when I was a kid. It was bleeding from the cracks and side. We kept it...
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    Growth Rates

    It's no different than your fingernails which I think grow faster in water. Surfers and swimmers always ask this question. I don't know why but when I lived in FL and stayed in the ocean mine grew like crazy. I would imagine this along with heat which increases your metabolic rate causes the...
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    Comment by 'heathedw' in media 'Speedy the leopard'

    Cool rocks. Did you bury the rocks to get them to stand up?
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    Faux rock design help

    very cool will check into it
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    Faux rock design help

    OK, maybe someone will chime in with a good recipe to make faux rocks. I'm gonna give it a try if I can just get a firm idea on the mix and spray that's used. I hate to mess it up experimenting.
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    Faux rock design help

    Anyone created a fake rock out of concrete before? I have a upside down kids pool my sulcate loves to hide under during the summer. I'm tired of looking at the pool so would rather create a big rock out of it. Make it more natural looking. I have found different things online but wondered if...
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    Redfoot Male 6.5 inches Great Pet $90 B'ham Alabama

    I am selling my redfoot male. He is in perfect health. 6.5 inches long and a great pet. Will eat out of your hand. He has stayed in my yard all summer, but I adopted a large Sulcata and it's becoming too much work to keep them separated. $90 cash. Pickup in the Birmingham Alabama area...
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    Meet Tom's Sulcatas

    Awesome. Great read.
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    Dealing with Fire Ants

    I just spray the bed with orthomax ant killer then put some castle rock (usually 4) around the bed for a few days so the torts can't get access. Then hose the dead bed and ants away with water. A buddy of mine just sprays his beds with orthomax then after a few hours washing it away real good...
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    sulcata wood house build for winter

    Thanks. I'm still debating on the substrate. So many options.
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    sulcata wood house build for winter

    Good to know. Tom, thanks for all the help BTW. Very grateful and to all others as well. I think I saw a post that you use hay. I was going to use straw but wondered if it would soak up urine and also if it could possible catch on fire (that probably is a dumb question). Should I just...
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    sulcata wood house build for winter

    Think I got everything finished except for vinyl strips (got some for free from an Overhead Door Company), cypress mulch and my pig blanket. I added tile to see if it would help from him digging into the plywood. Also, stained/sealed it with a 10 year color stain. Letting a fan dry it for a...
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    sulcata wood house build for winter

    Good to know. Thank you [hr] The baby pool turned out to be great. We had it for the kids so I decided to hide it under the trampoline and peanut went straight in. Get the one with a slide on it and just flip over (Walmart) I now have to get him to use his own house I built. He loves the...
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    sulcata wood house build for winter

    Just got an acu rite wireless weather thermometer. Best 19 bucks I spent...
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    sulcata wood house build for winter

    LOL. After this summer heat, I could use some smaller bills. Thanks again.
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    sulcata wood house build for winter

    good stuff tom. i might get one just to see how much it's costing during the winter. if it's .30 cents a day during the winter i would love it.
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    sulcata wood house build for winter

    Tons of great info. Thanks everyone. Going to get a pig blanket for now and use the CHE until I can get a RHP.
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