redfoot care

Hello everyone! Our little redfoot (225g) is named Sprout. This is our second attempt at a enclosure for her. The first enclosure we had was a big dog house we converted to suit Sprout. We kept it outside within a covered and screened patio. It had a heat and UVB lamp..... which we thought was...

After the fantastic welcome last week and some advice i wanted to make some.changes. I promptly ordered some new bits including a CHE instead of a Heat bulb. So today I changed the substrate from Reptisoil, leaves, bark and sphagnum moss to Cork coir and Orchid bark along with the CHE. Also got...

I just got this redfoot Sunday. It was in a tiny 10-20 gallon glass tank at a “puppy mill” type of pet store. I have a sulcata, and have always wanted a redfoot, and I couldn’t let this guy live in that tiny tank, so I bought it and have it a temporary Rubbermaid tote setup. I noticed this crack...

We have an approximately two year old red foot tortoise named Tofu. His new enclosure is currently in production with Toad Ranch and we think it’ll ship out around the end of the month. He has been living his best tortoise life in a table on our screened in porch for the summer but with...

Waiting for breakfast

Hello, im new in the forum and i have a question. (Im live in Brazil, sorry for bad english) Im already have 2 redfoot tortoises, one is about 1,5y and the older is 2,5y i guess. They live well together and recently i got 3 new baby RF and i put them to live together. In the first day The new...

I am getting a baby Red Foot Tortoise and I am kind of lost as to what types of uva and uvb I need. I also don't know if I need heating or if its different from a basking lamp. Currently, I have T8 UVB Fluorescent 10.0 , a 50 watts Basking Lamp for UVA and no heating. Do I still need to have...

I was giving my 3 yr old redfoot a bath and I noticed one of her plastron scutes had fallen off. I was kind of horrified by that but after a lot of research I started immediately treating her with Beta iodine and a topical skin cream. I also used Chlorhexidine diluted to clean the area scrubbing...

looking to purchase some plant food for my redfoot just worried, is this fine ? PLANT FOOD LINK : https://www.tortoisehut.co.uk/product-page/food4tort

Hey everyone. I have a redfoot tortoise who stopped eating and would flush her nose with water and bubbles would come out. She seemed more drowsy and didn't want to eat but would soak for long periods of time in her water. (This started when having her outside for a few hours and had her...

hi guys, i am wanting to put my spider plants into my Redfoot's vivarium (yes they are safe) I'm just thinking would they not just die as their is no natural light getting at the viv i only have my 12% 24W UVB light and of course my CHE.. if i need to purchase like another light to keep the...

Hello! So my Red foot, Kirby, seems to be injured. I can only imagine it's from scraping their food off the side of their mouth with their feet. Can anyone tell me what I should do for this, theories, advice, etc? If you need more information about habitat/husbandry, just ask!

Im looking at getting a tortoise within the next few years (or longer depending) as they're one of my favourite animals and I absolutely love redfoots they're my favourite species but I do live in canada so i would not be able to keep one outside. I would probably have an indoor enclosure and...

hi guys, thought id come here to ask as i know the advice from here is correct would i be fine purchasing this spider plant for my redfoot tortoise its from a tortoise website so im sure it should be safe but i just want someone to clarify it lol WEBSITE LINK BELOW...

He loves to eatttt

Hi, new on here, our red foot is about a year old and it regularly poops every day or every other day while soaking or walking around in a separate box we have. Worried since it's now been 4 days since he hasn't pooped and we haven't changed anything since we got him 5 months ago. He soaks 10...