There's not really a "best" wood, but plywood is a good one for sure. Whatever you can afford, really, plywood, 2x8s, 1x6s, pallets, whatever you can hammer into a box shape.
Put some view blocking stickers or something along the bottom few inches of your tank. I'm not sure if you have an MVB bulb, if not, you need another bulb it looks like you only have a heat one, and it looks like it's above the water and not somewhere you can bask. Get a terracotta pot and...
It's going to be an outdoor enclosure for a sulcata. Initially I may just build a 4x8 for nighttime, but long term I plan on making something like a wintertime shed where he could get most of his exercise and stay warm up in colder months, probably in the 8x20+ range.
Construction on the...
So, in many of the night box/outdoor enclosure threads (including @Tom 's boxes) everyone says they need a heating mat AND an oil heater. Is there a reason they need both? if there's a mat can/should you keep a lower ambient temp? Can you get by without a mat if you can maintain an adequate...
Year one might be okay year round
Year two you should probably have a bigger enclosure than a table (unless your table is huge)
Year three you're probably gonna want to start transitioning to outside full time unless you have a basement you can give up.
Years 4 and 5 are major growth years and...
Pumpkin and Sunflower are both edible (the whole plants) but shouldn't make up any large quantity of a diet. I can't help you with the ID on those plants however.
Maybe this is a silly question, but are all Ivories technically some amount of inbred from the original ones? Or has someone besides Fife made Ivories?
There's an extensive list at http://thetortoisetable.org.uk/ and yes, home depot's plants are going to be chemically fertilized unless they state for human/pet consumption or organic.
Some easier plants to grow that are tortoise safe are spinless opuntias, spider plants, and plantain plants.
bouaboua- that's to purchase the lot, not to rent it. Nobody wants the lots and the city isn't doing anything with them so they're really really cheap to buy and add to your lot.
christina- How long would you say they need to be in each bag? And after they're dry i can stuff all the dry ones...
That's a good idea drying the food wellington. I'm not very sure on how to properly dry plants, but some of the grasses kinda do it themselves as you can see.
I'm working towards a baby Sulcata in the near future, but first I'm going to construct an indoor table out of mostly recycle'd...
Hello TF!
I'm new to the forum and I don't yet own a tortoise, but today I decided to go for a short walk and ID some plants around my neighborhood to maybe show other people how easy(and cheap) it is to feed a baby tortoise correctly, no matter where you live. I know a lot of the tortoise...
Yeah, try and start feeding em more weeds and grasses. You can get most of them for free most days of the year outside, and you can find a good list of edibles around this website and at other websites.
If you're not buying organically grown plants from a store (it's much preferred you go out of your way and find an organic nursery/plant store with an organic section) I think the rule of thumb is around 2 months, but the longer the better.
If the plant you bought has been grown organically it...
I think the simplest solution would be to add a lightly insulated box type hide hole inside your current enclosure, and a heat mat inside the little house will guarantee a warm winter.
Tom has a larger 4'x4' box design that can be scaled to fit your needs posted in this section.