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My 10 yo 85-100 lb sulcata lives outside. He grazes (bermuda and st augustine grass/weeds...) year round and this is the first winter that he has really started liking to eat hay. Occasionally he gets squash, zucchini, cucumber, spring mix, various greens, flowers, mazuri pellets and optunia...

Help! My tortoise lives in the backyard and the yard is full of stickers! How can I safely kill the stickers? Too many to pull up!

All the rain has made for some yummy crisp weeds!

First night box built using plans from Tom. Time to build another box and plans/pictures are no longer available. Have a 7 yo male sulcata that lives outdoors year round. Enclosure is large and fully fenced, shaded, has plenty of grass/weeds to eat, has soaking pond and his own self dug...

i have a 6 year old, 40 lb sulcata who lives outside. He has a heated house, plenty of shade, digs a burrow every summer and has a soaking pond. The pond is approx 8x10 and about 8 inches at the deepest point. We have a pump, filter, waterfall and pond liner. Now for the problem! I can’t...

My 4yo sulcata lives outside with access to all the grass, weeds and water he wants. I've got an 8x8 raised garden and am planning to grow zucchini, squash, cucumber and cantaloupe! I'll eat the fruit/veggies and feed Samson the leaves! Are these leaves ok and are there other things I could...

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My 3 yo sulcata has been outside almost a full year now! He has a 3x4 heated house that he stayed in last winter! He dug a burrow this summer and spends his nights there! When the weather starts cooling off will he go back to his box or stay in his burrow? Do I need to fill in the burrow...

soon to begin construction of an 8x8 soaking pond for my 3yo sulcata. will i need to use chlorine remover or anything else in the water?

My 2 1/2 yo sulcata has started digging in a corner of his outdoor enclosure! Every few days I fill the hole back up. Hadn't had a chance to fill the hole for several days until this afternoon. I used a broom stick to measure the length of the burrow and it was about the same as the broom...

Samson, my 3 yo sulcata, lives outside full time now and eats only grass, weeds... Since I no longer feed him spring mix I don't know how to give him calcium! Any ideas?

I've been away for sometime but I'm back now! While reading through all the new posts I kept coming across posts about skincare products, tips... What is going on?

In early spring I bought three different varieties of grapevines and planted them in my outdoor enclosure along our wrought iron fence. They are growing but not very fast. I live in Texas and the fence can get rather hot! Could the heat from the fence be the reason they are not growing...

i'm not having any luck finding a fruitless mulberry tree so i'm thinking about just getting a red mulberry and planting it in a part of the yard where we could put up a barrier of some sort to keep samson from eating the fruit that falls to the ground. i don't really think there would be much...

looking for a fruitless mulberry tree to plant in sulcata enclosure. i cannot find one anywhere! does anyone know where i can purchase one?

just placed a 100W powersun mercury vapor UVB lamp inside my enclosure. enclosure is approx 50" long, 20" deep and 26" tall. MVB bulb is located in the far right front corner, humid hide is on the far left side. temp inside hide stays between 80-82, temp just outside hide stays around 88...

What is the difference between these two bulbs, besides the cost? Is one better than the other? Exo Terra Solar Glo-MVB or Zoo Med Powersun-MVB

We noticed mold coming up the insides of our enclosure. We moved samson into a temporary plastic tub. We took the enclosure outside, removed all the substrate (coco coir) and the bottom was covered in mold. We will have to replace the bottom piece of wood, however we would like to keep the...

i live in texas where temps have been and will continue to be over 100. my outdoor enclosure has lots of shady areas, several hides and always fresh water. is it safe to leave samson (11 mon) outside all day or will he get too hot? i've been thinking about letting him stay out at night also...