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I'm the proud grandma of 3 new baby russian tortoises. My female laid eggs for the first time and all three hatched. 2 in an incubator and one out in her pen that I didn't know she had laid until I saw the broken shell.:D The are sooooo cute. As soon as I figure out how, I'll post pics.

My pig blanket is a Stanfield mat. It seems to be very reliable so far. The thermostat from Stanfield holds a very constant temp.

My torts don't always come out at a time that I can see them. Have you tried the kid spy trick of fixing a hair or spiderweb across the entrance?

We have a 25 pound Sulcata outside in the desert of Southern California, it gets below freezing at times. We use a large plastic storage bin with a "pig blanket" and an infrared heater on a thermostat so it never gets too hot for him and he seems very happy. He still comes out on all but the...

I have one of each species and the are fairly easy to tell apart. If it has short spikes on its back legs and long, pointed scales on its front legs, then it is probably a Sulcata. They can look similar when they are little, but by 8 there is a huge difference. My 9 year old Sulcsta is 25 pounds...

I'm from Apple Valley too! What a coincidence.

Hi, My name is Kim and I live in the Mojave Desert. I have kept tortoises for more than 30 years. I currently have 5 tortoises of 3 different species and am expecting 2 eggs to hatch in the next month! I have a 9 year old African Sulcata that I got when he was 2 weeks old, a 20 year old Desert...