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Living in the North East, weather is too cold in the winter for him to be outside, and our basement is becoming too small to accommodate him in the winter. I am looking for a home further south: SC, FL, etc. with an experienced owner. I would like to rehome him in the spring, around April...

Hello TFO, My 9 year old sulcata, Livingstone, is in need of a new home where he can be outside all year round. Currently we are living in Richmond Virginia and the winters are too cold for him to be outside all year round, and he is just too big to be inside for 6 months a year. If you are...

Hello there TFO folks, For those of you that are not familiar with Livingstone, he is a 5 year old sulcata that lives in Richmond Virginia. I have owned him since he was the size of a ping-pong ball, he is now 45 lbs, and very happy to be outside for summer because like all sulcata's he prefers...

Here in Richmond Va the weather in winter is cold and not conducive to grass growing never mind putting a tortoise outside to graze... So I came up with a well rounded staple food source that is relatively inexpensive and much healthier than grocery store greens. I'm using a mix of orchard...

Hey there TFO folks, Some of you have been asking about Livingstone and how he's doing... And despite my sincere efforts to adequately explain his setup and condition I have been at a loss to effectively communicate his health and size. His outdoor house is still going strong, I insulated...

Hey there TFO folks, Livingstone has been getting back to his roots this summer and been acting like a real sulcata recently. The temperatures here in Richmond have been very high (climate change is real), with an equally high ambient humidity, so high that even a sulcata didn't want to be...

Hey there my TFO friends! It's been a couple of months since livingstone entered his subterranean winter retreat (basement), and although it's not the ideal setup, I feel like it's working out ok. Here are some photos of him that we took today. If you look closely you can see the band of...

Hey folks, As we all know sulcatas are a large species of tortoise, but it never fails to amaze me just how fast they get BIG. I live in Richmond Virginia which is not super cold during winter, but its too cold for Livingstone to be outside. So what do you do with a 3+ year old sulcata that...

Hello everybody, I was going through my camera and found some photos from summer that my wife took of Livingstone being fed by me. Either it was the temperature of this particularly hot day and his metabolism going full steam ahead, or maybe that he had been grazing on the weeds in the pen...

Hey guys, I was checking on livingstone basking under his lamps today and as he was all sprawled out I could see clearly the bottom of his left hind foot. There was a pink circle about a 1/4" in diameter. I picked him up and straddled him perpendicular over my leg and had my wife snap a...

Hey there guys, Its getting a bit chillier hear in Richmond... And somebody (livingstone) does not appreciate that its not warm enough outside to be let out.:( Mind you, we did a pretty good job of building an indoor pen.:) He was on 30 by 30ft pen outside, and now its probably 18 by 10ft...

I keep having a problem with mazuri, ants can smell it a mile away. I got fed up with this and stopped the mazuri for a couple of days thinking the ants would move on... no such luck, so I had to get creative. I wanted a moat but couldn't think of a good way to keep the food level with the...

Hey TFO friends, I just recently finished livingstones outdoor enclosure here in Richmond. We were having such high temps that the first above-ground house I built him outside was not staying cool enough during the 90+ day temperatures we have been getting. Because we are renting the...

Hey folks, While I was in South Africa with my wife for our honeymoon I took her to a nature reserve in the Western Cape, it was perfect weather for tortoises, and we saw a ton of wild-actively mating Chersina Angulata. This one was a Juvenile and trying to escape the onslaught of an adult...

Hey guys, Something occured to me regarding the sharing of information. We all have the ability to show where we are under our user name, and I think its very helpful when we are discussing different topics (especially outdoor husbandry). I just wanted to urge all the sulcata members to at...

The pictures I am posting of me hand feeding Livingstone may ruffle the feathers of the purists in terms of responsable husbandry. I appreciate that hand feeding can habituate an animal and can be a detriment to normal behavior patterns, it can also lead to a nasty bite. However when livingstone...

Hey guys, I thought with this species being so popular as a starter tortoise I would share a few good photos I took yesterday of Livingstone flashing. The first time I saw this it freaked me out a bit and I want to spare other members the unnecessary scare when they do see it. To me its the...

Hello folks, Im sure that you will all be happy to hear that livingstone is alive and well... And growing, even as he sleeps. What I have here are a few photos from his birthday party, where he got his first cake. The cake was made of mazuri, strawberry, watermelon and carrot. It was his...

Well folks, I am a very excited guy, my fiancee and I are moving to Richmond into a house which is large enough for Livingstone to have his own room!!!! That means I get to build an indoor tort room for him. This is going to be awesome in every sense of the word. Stay tuned to the sulcata...

Livingstone was outside enjoying the sunshine, so he got fed a piece of freshly washed green leaf lettuce. Thanks for looking.