Hello. I hope your all well. I have a bit of a dilemma with my girl. She is an Iberian Greek. She is 11 inches long and 8 inches wide. We have a big enclosure for her but I always feel so sad for her in the winter. Anyway, we put a very big water bowl in the enclosure for her and she...
Hello. I hope you are All well. I'm a Foster carer and recently met another Foster carer who is also a tort parent. He told me that his dad got a tortoise when he was about 10 and it was apparently 50 years old when the got it. The bloke is now 50 and said they've never identified what kind...
Hi everybody. I have a 14 month old greek. We have recently just moved him to a bigger indoor enclosure where I've realised that one UV bulb in the day isn't enough light. We decided to do the 'dual ballast' so that we could put the new UV bulb and the heat bulb together at the other end of...
HI everybody. I know that this has probably been covered so many times but I'm a bit of a worrier.
I've just purchased a new enclosure for our year old Golden Greek Boy. Over the past couple of weeks he's really become so social. Such a character. We've bought him an enclosure with glass...
Hi. Thank you. I would still keep the bedded area a mixture of soil and coconut coif and tbh he really only burrows at bedtime. The digs out a sort of trench and sleeps in there. I've never seen him really do it in the main area. He eats and bathes in there (and eats substrate) :-) I'm...
Hi, sorry if this has been covered before. I've just taken our 7month old Greek to vets due to loose stool with stones in and string. Strange boy. He does appear to be eating a lot of his substrate. We mix playsand and compressed coconut fiber/plantation soil 50/50. The vet said to change...
HI, thanks so much for responding. I have a cuddle bone in the encloser as he wouldn't eat anything with the powder on it. We fought for days over that :-) He does nibble it so hoping that he is getting enough calcium. I use the Exo Terra 160 w bulb so the vitamin D shouldn't be a problem...
Hi everybody. I was wondering if some kind person could shed some light on my tortoise problem please? I have a Golden Greek who is 8 months old. I seriously can't believe how much he has grown over the past 3 months. Anyway, we are feeding him mainly dandelion and clover right now. Mainly...
Hi, We collected our 7 week old Greek baby a couple of hours ago. Within 5 minutes of being in his new home he was eating and then took a bath. Such a character already. A debate is still raging about the name as my 9 year old daughter is insisting it begins with a T. We're all very excited...
Thank you. Waiting to buy a little Greek Guy. Fingers crossed. Won't collect until after the hurricane but all very excited here. I'll post pictures as soon as we have him. Thanks for making me welcome.
Hi, I'm Mel and from NJ. I don't actually own a tortoise yet but we're waiting to hear from some breeders and should own one (hopefully) within the next 2 weeks. Being in NJ is a pain as nowhere sells them here. This makes it difficult as I didn't really want to go to a pet store out of state...