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    Oil radiator

    Is oil radiator a good choice for indoor closed chamber heating for a Sulcata?
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    Outside pen for the summer

    I know summer is still a few months away, but I started thinking about outside enclosure for my juvenile sulcata. She is allmost 4 inches long. And as she still needs constant high humidity I was wondering how can I provide such enclosure outside, but still get UV from the sun? So that she can...
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    My Suly

    This is my Sulcata. I have her since August. She is kept in a very humid closed chamber, with big terracotta water dish, daily soaks, misting, 82 F on cool side, 100F under basking lamp and she still has slight pyramiding. I am just obsessed with pyramiding.
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    Ceramic heat emitter

    Can ceramic heat emitter be mounted horizontaly? Or must be verticaly?
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    Pyramiding question

    As you know I have a 7 month old Sulcata. And when I got her she had a very small hint of start of pyramiding. But if I am not mistaking once it starts it takes some time to stop. She did grow a bit since I got her, and pyramiding is not getting worse, but I don't see smooth new growth. So, how...
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    Tortoise table insulation

    I need to insulate my sulcata closed chamber table so that the electric bill will not rise. What is the best way to insulate it? Or is there any other way to keep heat inside so that the ceramic heat bulb will not run alot? Any ideas?
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    Pyramiding thinking

    So I was thinking about pyramiding and what else can be te cause. Since tortoise shell is made of similar material as human nails, did anyone think of some sort of fungus that could be the cause of pyramiding? Recently I saw a person in supermarket that had almost pyramided nails on his feet...
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    Sulcata keep pacing and climbing wall

    My baby Sulcata keeps pacing and climbing the same part of the wall. I even put a board across a corner so that it is not sqare, but she still trys to climb it. And what happens is she flips on her back. This morning I have found her on her back. She was like that probably the whole night. How...
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    Heating cable

    Now that the tempreatures has started to drop I have a hard time keeping constant temperature in my sulcata table. So I was thinking of installing heat cable on the walls of table. Will it raise the enclosure temperature? I do have glass cover over about half of the table.
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    First treat

    First time eating tomato.
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    My introduction

    Hello, my name is Gregor and I come frm Europe from a small country called Slovenia. I am 34 years old and been keeping tortoises for a few years. About 14 days ago I got a baby Sulcata that is four months old. Sorry my English is not so good.
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    Is my Sulcata pyramiding?

    Hi, I am a new owner of a baby Sulcata. I am trying to determine if tortoise is tarting to pyramide?
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