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I know they don't last forever, but the last light fixtures I had before these lasted me around 8 years or so. These ones are burnt out after 4 months, all 3 of them. When everything is screwed in tight and together, it wont turn on. If I fuss with it and have it slightly unscrewed, then it...

Ok, so I have a lot of National Geographic Heat lamps. 3 for the Tortoise, 2 for the Chameleon, and 1 for the hedgehog. I switched to these since the old heat system for my tortoise was too old and burnt out, and started using that brand for the chameleon/hedgehog just because it was the only...

Arugula, radicchio, a small amount of bok choy, spring mix, corn, mashed potato, ZOOMED natural forest tortoise food and Rep-Cal Tortoise Food (the pellet food is all she likes to eat but makes her stool blue because artificial coloring and I don't like that). He eats the food pellets, and I...

I was thinking maybe, but the behavior was a drastic change since I took him to the vet. Thats the day I changed the diet as well. He's 10 years old

Okay, but what will he eat? He hasn't been eating at all. (Red foot tortoise)

A while ago I made this thread. I did the starve out technique and everyone kept saying "just don't break" 10 days later, I only got a couple bites out of him! It's been so long. He needs to eat. I give him this pellet food (the pellets are very very small, smaller than the tortoise's eyes) he...

They keep the animals healthy and alive enough for people to take home. Pet stores have to keep the animals healthy because if someone adopts an aggressive, irritated sick animal, the'll return it within 14 days and the store won't be able to get rid of it and profit. They keep the conditions...

I've heard tons of mixed info about the heat. I was told to keep the tank generally around 86 degrees and a 90 degree hot spot, but at night to keep it around 75 degrees with higher humidity. But like you said, low temps and high moisture may cause respiratory disease so I don't do that. I've...

right! Sorry I forgot to mention that. Yes red foot

Thank you so much. I have a Powersun 100W with UVA, UVB, light and heat bulb and it gets her tank around 86 degrees. He has a tank where he sleeps and eats in, I let him walk around my room if I'm going to be gone for 3 hours (school mostly), and during the summers he lives outside. He's nearly...

Sigh. Lots of stress right now. To start, my old vet got fired which is already terrible that I was trusting the wrong person for so long. I took my tortoise in yesterday to get a check up, and the new doctor said there was a little shell rot on the bottom. My old vet told me to "consider it...

Wow I'm glad I read this because I was wondering if one tort could get another one sick easily :0 in my town'a pet store there's a tank of tortoiaes, 2 box and 2 red footed. Is that bad, or is it bad when they get in direct contact with each other?

she hates me :P

I think that's what I'm gonna have to do, she only picks a little bit of veggies but isn't really eating much :( is bok choi ok for tortoises? She loves it but I thought I heard somewhere you shouldn't feed them much

So far nothing really. She loves radicchio the most, but she hasn't been eating it lately either

Thats awesome!! If you needed to keep it at high humidity, would it damage the wood?

Thanks all of you! Right now she's giving me the stink look, but I'm sure soon enough she'll eat. She was nibbling a little bit last night!

It's very cold where I live, but my tort is so big I think the perfect habitat would be in the back yard, where there are plants and grass and everything for her to wander and munch! I was looking up ideas on how to make a warm enclosure outdoors, but when I was reading someone briefly said to...

Look at those scales! :D

My tort likes to play fetch :p I never taught her, she just starting picking things up and bringing them to me. Eventually I started throwing them, and she'd go fetch it. I use a walnut, good way to trim her beak and get exercise. She'll also walk circles around me and if I don't pay attention...