I'm not using a cool bulb and she is soaked in warm water daily, which usually perks her up. I know she environment she was kept in at the local pet store wasn't humid. Whether the breeder was I'm not sure. Her night time temps are around 75. is this too cool? I can bump it up some if necessary.
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Some of you might remember me as the owner of Darwin, a sulcata tortoise. Unfortunately in August Darwin met an early end. I was utterly devastated, however I decided to try again and bought another hatchling who I later named Lucy after a well known ecologist (Gotta stick with the...
Thank you, I will work on this and get his humidity up. If I continue to have these issues, I'm considering asking if he can live in the aquatics lab on the site where I live and work. They already have to keep the temperature up for the fish and mussels living there, so he may respond better...
Thanks! I'll give that a try and play around with things for a little while. It's at my parents house so I won't be able to get it until Saturday when I trek home to visit, as they live quite a ways away from here. I'll get it and play around with it Saturday night (party hard!) This might solve...
That sounds like a great idea. I have one from last year and I can build some sort of apparatus that will pipe it in since it's a little large. That may help with the issue a lot.
Hello! Some of you may remember me from last winter when I got Darwin, my baby Sulcata tortoise as a Christmas present. You were all very instrumental in my caring for him and I wanted to start off by thanking you all for your help.
This winter I have run into a few problems. In June I moved...
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So as you all may know I am a college student who's life is pretty much constantly a jumbled mess. Thus far, though, I have done a great job at caring for Darwin and while he has a little pyramiding showing through, must of his growth has been pretty smooth. He is very active and doing...
I thought it was really funny and very creative. He got his treat so I don't think it's mean, but maybe even good for the tortoise as a good form of mental stimulation.
Hm, well, I'm going to use deductive reasoning from what I've learned through class and through this website.
The turtles shell is similar to our backs. It is a bone. When we break a bone, it hurts (Most of the time. My dad broke both front hands and neither hurt) The spine runs through the...
Not sure if it was mentioned above but I use organic peat moss in my enclosure and it works great. The only issue is is that I break out quite often when I touch it. If she is allergic to coconut, she may be allergic to peat moss as well. Peat moss is a type of absorbent moss. It was a...
I haven't taken him out in the cold at all. I know he probably wouldn't last too long out there like that and even when we get to the building he probably wouldn't warm up too much without a heat lamp. I'm eagerly awaiting those warmer days when I can open my windows and take him outside!
I...
Thanks guys! This helped a lot. Darwin has hit a huge growth spurt and suddenly grew a lot here the past couple of weeks. He's becoming much more active as well. I'm hoping to be able to take him over to the Biology department soon and have him weighed, but I want to be careful because it's been...
So Darwin is growing quite quickly, but I have few questions.
His plastron is over two inches long now, and there is some obvious growth on his shell. I had a little bit of pyramiding but was able to head it off pretty quickly an any recent growth is pretty good. My main question though is I...
Sadly money probably plays a big role as to why this man is allowed to air this show/infomercial. I spent years in the race horse industry and learned just how far people will go for money and sadly the animals well-being tends to be put on the back burner. It's sad and horrifying and reflects...
Oh. My. Gosh. You NEVER EVER EVER keep ferrets and birds in the same room. They are natural enemies. We have three parrots and four ferrets and have to work to keep them separated. One little slip up nearly cost us our African Grey one night.
Also, his ferret treatment is very outdated. When...
I live in your area and I never thought about going to Jungle Jims for Darwin! I'm going to have to head out sometime this week and check out what they may have.
I am planning to put it under the dirt but on top of a piece of plexi-glass as I have him in a plastic christmas tree storage box. I was thinking about putting hid humid hide over it then. I would go for the under tank option if I had an aquarium I could use.
So I am ordering a heating pad for Darwin online tonight. His scutes aren't growing out smoothly so I'm a bit worried he may be pyramiding despite the measures I've currently gone to to make sure he doesn't. Does anyone know how the heat from the heating pad will react with the moss? It sounds...
Is this an actual scientific experiment or research project? When I first got Darwin I kept looking online, but almost every piece of information seemed to be gathered by people who had an interest in the animal and were sharing their owns experiences. It's very interesting to know people out...
Well, as a matter of fact, the hand book for residence states that we may not have any pets aside from fish in a tank 15 gallons or smaller. My friends have a 50 gallon tank with 3 sharks in it. My neighbors at one point had a cat. Another friend has a hamster. It isn't a very enforced rule. I'm...