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  1. DaveTheDadHaileeTheDaughter

    Need homes for our torts

    Hey everyone, with much sadness I have to find good homes for our three torts. Two sulcatas and our cherryhead. I've been pretty ill for some time now and not getting better and my daughter suggested it would be better to find homes for them. If interested I live in Tiffin Ohio. Drop me a email...
  2. DaveTheDadHaileeTheDaughter

    Opera Singing Tortoise

    Our opera singing Sully singing and waving to his/her fan...... LOL sorry couldnt resist on this one.
  3. DaveTheDadHaileeTheDaughter

    Our Soaking / Food Cart

    Hi everyone, wanted to show ya all our latest project we finished up about a week ago and have been using. So far its made feeding / soaking our 3 torts tons easier. Our tort enclosures and food are kept in the bottom of our house so before when it came time to feed, all the food an such had to...
  4. DaveTheDadHaileeTheDaughter

    Lighting Change

    I changed the lighting set up on our cherryhead enclosure a bit and hopefully it was a good move. What I did was open the holes drilled into the one lexan door to 3/4 inch holes (there are 34) and also added 9 more just adjacent to them. Over the 34 holes now hangs a 100 watt Zoo med power sun...
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    Pet Smart / Power Sun Sale

    Hey everyone just to pass along, PetSmart is running a sale on ZooMed Power Sun mercury vapor bulbs for 39.00 if you use your petperks card. I drove over a hour today and they only had two left so I snagged both of them and a exo terra solar glow bulb for 39.00 a piece.
  6. DaveTheDadHaileeTheDaughter

    New Tortoise New Enclosure

    Hi everyone, we had been having so much fun with our two Sullies that we decided we wanted another one. We got our new addition (female cherryhead) from forum member BK January 30th (and thank you again BK for making the drive up here) and for the first two weeks she lived in a huge rubbermaid...
  7. DaveTheDadHaileeTheDaughter

    Enclosure Remodel we forgot to add....

    Over Christmas break I "Jazzed" my daughters Sulcata enclosure up a bit and thought I had it all to specs....lol sunday as we are putting the baby's back in after a soak she says..."uhhhm dad we forgot something bigtime" Im scanning the enclosure going now what !! lol When we remodeled, her and...
  8. DaveTheDadHaileeTheDaughter

    Weight Gain

    We got our two sulcatas around November 28th and got around to weighing them a couple days later. The one is somewhat bigger, higher dome, larger all the way around. When we weighed them the larger one was 11oz's and the other 9oz's. I weighed them tonight after they had dinner, got their...
  9. DaveTheDadHaileeTheDaughter

    We did some remodeling

    Good morning everyone ! We've been busy last few days, my daughter had asked me if I could make her tortoise table "Prettier" so off to Lowes I went. We went through posts and suggestions such as the lip around the top, flat rocks for basking ect and I "think" we made some major improvements. It...
  10. DaveTheDadHaileeTheDaughter

    Sulcata behavior question

    Hi all as you know we got the two sulcatas a few weeks ago, all is going great, they are active, eating good (both have gained over an ounce since we've had them) but have a question that we've not been able to find any information on: About a week ago, the smaller of the two did this but...
  11. DaveTheDadHaileeTheDaughter

    Our new Sulcata indoor enclosure

    Pretty much finished up the new enclosure last night, its 6foot x 4foot with a 21 x 21 hide. Still have some stuff we want to add, more heat lamps, and waiting on the new mercury vapor uvb bulb to come in (had to order it) Temps now by the heat lamps are 79-82 the hide was at 68 with 75%...
  12. DaveTheDadHaileeTheDaughter

    Videos of our new "Babies"

    Some videos of our new Babies, they are supposed to be 3yr old Sulcatas, about 4 1/2 inches long, one is deffinately wider and thicker than the other. http://www.youtube.com/user/safetydave#p/a/u/0/887qaQZEOfA http://www.youtube.com/user/safetydave#p/a/u/1/ROh9SeJxa8U...
  13. DaveTheDadHaileeTheDaughter

    Personalities

    My daughter and I had read tons of info before we got the two Sulcatas, one was based on peronalities, and OMG they do have personalities beyond !!!! The one when we got them, the previous owners said this is the bold curious one the other is laid back. After a week the bold one is still bold...
  14. DaveTheDadHaileeTheDaughter

    Newbies Saying Hello

    Hello Everyone ! My daughter and I just got two Sulcatas last sunday, they are supposed to be 3yrs old. When we picked them up they were bright eyed, nice clear noses but did notice some pyramiding, previous owner didnt use calcium much,no UVB an not sure on food. But we are using 10.0...
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