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My indoor enclosure for my Russian tort is now teaming with fungus gnats. The substrate (coconut coir and cypress mulch) is only about two months old and I mist it a couple times a week to keep it from drying out. I'm going to stop misting and let it dry out under the lights, but is there...

I'm building a new indoor enclosure for my Russian tortoise. The measurements are 29.5" wide by 80" long. I already have UVB taken care of on the hot end of the enclosure (mega ray MVB and reptisun linear fluorescent), but I want to make the entire enclosure as visually stimualting for my...

I run fecals on my Russian tort every 6 months and I just got his results back. He tested positive for a few (3-10 in a roughly 3 gram stool sample) eimeria oocysts. This is the first time he's tested positive for anything since treating him for pinworms over a year ago. He is showing no...

(Scroll down if you don't feel like reading the full story, questions are at the bottom) A few hours ago, I took possession of two Desert Tortoises. I am told they are about 20 years old. They had been living with an elderly man for the past decade, who worked years ago as a wildlife biologist...

Hi everyone, My Russian tortoise, whom I recently rescued, is loaded with pinworms. His attending Veterinarian has given me the dosing information using fenbendazole paste (safeguard/panacur) but I can not get him to eat the full dose. I have even tried using a needle and syringe to inject the...

Hello, My name is Shane and I'm the proud owner of a male Russian tortoise, named "Sir. Franklin Harold Murphy Esq. III", that I recently rescued. I also have a 7 year old female Chocolate Lab, and I work as a Practice Manager of a Veterinary Hospital that sees dogs, cats, rodents and birds...