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Added a pond, some Irish moss, and an aloe plant. Slowly but surely her enclosure's coming together!

If you guys saw my last thread, you saw an outdoor enclosure was in the works while my dog tried to eat my tort. Well, after a week's worth of work, we finished the final push today and her outdoor enclosure is now fully built. She has her basic water bowl, food bowl, sun rock and log in there...

So I left Shelly outside in her outdoor enclosure to soak up some rays because it's already 90 degrees here (!) Well, I told my mom & went to the grocery store to pick up a few things. Thirty minutes later I come back home to my mom telling me she forgot Shelly was outside & let the dog out...

I'm looking into buying one for her outdoor enclosure. But I need to know if it's big enough for her & if it's a good enclosure all around. She's about 6 in. Is there another outdoor enclosure good for tortoises if this one isn't?

& if so how much can I feed it to them?

I was finally able to get coconut fiber & added that into Shelly's enclosure. She absolutely LOVES it. She's been burrowing & digging & skipped sleeping in her leaves/log to dig a hole & sleep in the open last night! In a few of the pictures you can see where she was sleeping. She was just...

So yesterday I decided to take a trip to Petco to see their russians. Petsmart didn't have my tort in a healthy environment (ie there were crickets in its enclosure) but Petco was horrible. I felt so bad for the russians. There was NOTHING they could take shelter in. All they had was a water...

I need help. With the help of a Petsmart lady, my russian had a bad uv bulb for a couple days. (literally two) His eyes look perfectly fine, his bulbs are fine now, and he gets plenty of natural UVB. But I would like to know or see what healthy eyes look like? Pictures would be great, but...

How do I prevent my little russian tort from pyramiding? I got him from Petsmart, and though he was pretty healthy, I can tell he was starting to pyramid a little. Is there anyway I can make it go down?

Sheldon has undergone a huge new arrangement in his enclosure, and I think this is it! Sheldon seems to love it. He wakes up around 7, go upstairs, eats & basks, goes downstairs to drink & soak his shell (usually does this a couple times), takes a nap, comes back out for dinner, & then goes to...

I currently have a glass tank, but I really want my tortoise to be as comfortable as possible. Should I exchange it for one of those plastic ones people have? If so, where could I get them?

So I just bought a Russian tortoise a couple days ago. He seems to like his bulbs, but are these the right ones I need? I keep the long white one on during the day, with the white circular bulb at the same time. At night, I turn on just the red circular one. (It's been getting down to around...

I just adopted Sheldon, (a 1-2 year old Russian male tortoise, according to the lady at Petsmart) this is my first reptile, or any small animal/mammal of that nature. I got him yesterday. I have a few questions regarding, well, everything. I've been doing a lot of research, before & after I...