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Hello all! Warm days came earlier in Greece! Please advices to keep them hydrated both! I take them with me out in my yard from 9 until 11 in the morning since the sun isn't so strong these hours! My problem is that they don't drink water from their bowls! So how many times per week can I feed...

At last i took the results! This time my tortoises have protozoan parasites! My vet told me that Mt Wilma she has the normal parasite she doesn't need medicine but Danny needs! She told to take from pharmacy flagyl in surup and she told me to give him one time and then one time more after 3...

Hello guys and I'm sorry again but I'm very annoyed this month 😡😡! I have been trying to send samples feces in my capital city and the first time never reached and the second was late 3 days and that's because we have big massive problem in Greece with delivery companies! The first time I did...

Ok as I told you all before my Danny has a flexible belly and it's shell in some spots! My vet told me to start tomorrow calcium injections! One per day for 3 days!He eats everyday,he basks but compared to my wilma he seems a little bit weak!please guys i hope he is going to be alright after...

Hello all! I would like to ask if this beak needs trimming! I haven't seen him to face problem when he eats! I have seen him Sometimes to open and close his mouth and he acts like he itches him! I noticed that the inside down chin touch the beak! Like rubbing it! Thank you!

As I want to provide the best for my tortoises I have questions for these products! Last year a friend from England brought me reptoboost and nutrobal from vetark company! And indeed I saw big difference in my tortoises! They were more vivid! The cost now to order them from amazon is too high...

Ok I just want to share the new routine! I have thermometers and ceramic lamps! Exactly 20 days I follow this! I use ceramic lamps at night for Exactly 7 hours! The temperature is 24 degrees Celsius and the humidity 50 - 60% percent! I have seen that both of my tortoises eat more poop more and...

First of all thank you all for your support! You are very kind people! I received right now these pellets food! I mixed up with their food! I did wet the pellets of course! They ate it! My female ate only pellet food and not her normal food! She was running after my finger and she wanted to eat...

That's the Xray in took today! I asked her if there is a possibility if something else going on! I asked her about for bladder stone! I think she can't make a diagnosis 100% I had him some hours outside in summer! Last year the Xray I took he was totally clear!

I will send feces samples but I took xray both of my tortoises! My male has rocks inside him! The one is big! My vet told me to give him liquid paraffin from pharmacy! He had rocks in the past but he cleaned! Now he ate again without notice him! Is liquid paraffin ok or to feed him something else?

Hello all again! Here that's why I worry about eoth my male! The upper photo is from last year because I checked photos I had! The down photo is recently! I didn't notice at all all this time! I contacted immediately with my vet and isend her photos in her viber l! She told me it's like our...

Happy new year all! Healthy and strong! I received my new calcium some days ago! I couldn't find arcadia because they haven't imported in Greece yet! Arcadia has 10% magnesium though! Is this so important for tortoises? If yes in which foods can we find magnesium? Thank you all!

Thank you all for your support and I'm really sorry if I asked all the time but these are my first pets and I didn't know anything about tortoises! I feel so bad because I wasn't organised!i wasn't using heat at night for them! I started this week to use ceramic lamps! How long can i use them? I...

I ordered new calcium because I didn't see that it was expired 7 months expired! Is this bad! I think they didn't get the vitamins! I can't understand something please! If I they are in sun do I have to give them calcium too?don't they get vitamins from sun?

Today I decided to check in my both shell's tortoise! I pressed them everywhere! Both of them in the exact spot back at the right side near to tail is a little bit flexible! Is the specific spot like this? Do I have to give them more calcium? I have to tell that the first year that I had them I...

I was driving today and I found some cactus out in nature! For the first time I fed my Wilma and Danny some bites! Because I didn't know I pealed it and I removed as much the best that little spikes! I have fed them sometimes aloe vera too! Is cactus more nutritional from aloe? And how many...

Arr these catsear or something else?

I try to find flood lamps! I find some in 75watts! I have now spot lamps! Do they produce the same heat or higher? What's the best height in flood lamps?

Hello again all! I used for 6 months my uvb lamps and I ordered new ones! My first lamps were arcadia t5 pro 12%! I received today my new lamps but they are different! Lamps are 12% from arcadia but it says for desert reptiles HO -T5! I wonder it these lamps are the correct ones like the...

Since I found this forum and there are some experts here I would like to ask if there is a safe fruit to feed sparingly my russian tortoises! I hear all the time that it's bad for them! Thank you!