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    New York outdoor Brumation

    Hi Hermann parents - anyone from New York/New York city with success brumating hermanns outdoors all year? Would love to hear from you. I have a clutch of adult 6 that I’ve always brought in but now considering brumating.
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    Conflicting Brumation Advice

    Hello I posted a few days ago asking for feedback for my tortoise's outdoor enclosure. Thank you again to everyone who responded. I have been thinking ahead to the upcoming brumation period. Sidney is around 50-70 years old per the vet's approximation and is a Mediterranean spur-thighed...
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    Brumating or sick? Losing weight. Help!

    I have a 5-10 year old female Russian tortoise named Sprinkles. I got Sprinkles in mid June. Up until a few weeks ago she had a great appetite, eating most of the food I would put in her 8 inch terracotta dish, a very large handful. She eats mixed leafy greens and sometimes she gets radicchio as...
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    Tortoise trying to hibernate

    Hi, No matter what we do our tortoise keeps trying to hibernate. Someone who was looking after him broke the timer and he didn’t have UV or heat for 3 days, we think he’s now trying to hibernate. Is there anything we can do to stop him wanting to hibernate? We wake him up each morning, bathe...
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    What age should a DT start brumating?

    Murphy just turned 1 and we were told not to let him brumate for the first 3 years. Is this true? And if not, how to we prepare him for brumation? We live in southern California where its in the mid-80s in the day and high-50s at night. He lives in a raised enclosure outside, but has heat and a...
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