Thank you! He feels so much better! I was very worried about him, but he's doing MUCH better now. I followed the advice I received here by adding more light, more heat, and a little moisture for his substrate. He's feeling much better now.
Thank you everyone for your advice! We made a few changes based on your advice, and it helped a lot. He's active, alert, curious, friendly, and eating like a pig. Thank you so much.
We had to cluster a heat lamp, and two light bulbs at one end in order to create a warm area for him. I'm thinking of hanging one more over the center of the box to create a warm, but slightly less warm area. The rocky end is the coolest. We turn everything off at night. Room temp doesn't go...
Haven't been able to download pictures into an album, so I'm going to try posting them here. We found a Russian Tortoise several months ago. We were unable to locate his family, so we have been reading as much as we could for ideas about habitats and daily care. This is what we built (and by...
Thanks. If we decide to do that, how cool/what temp, and do we fluctuate the temp from day to night, or keep it steady? FYI - We're in California so it rarely gets very cold where we're at.
Thank you. We've done all that. Lights are on 12 hours a day. His basking rock is around 92-94 degrees. The box is wide open so mostly room temp, but it's warmer in the corner where the additional lamps are hung (heat and UV). Do all Russian Tortoises slow down and grow inactive this time of...
Hi from San Jose, Calif.
My name is Ruth Ann and we found a young Russian Tortoise in the middle of the road a couple of months ago. We haven't been able to locate its owners so we have been taking care of him. He was active at first, but now he barely moves and isn't eating. He dug a little...