redfoot care

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...

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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...

So recently my juvenile redfoot has started making a strange sound every so often that worries me- like a cough or a throat clearing type of sound. He does it a few times every few hours and then stops, but this has been going on on-and-off for about 4 days now. He doesn't have any other...

Hello tortoise lovers. Here is another thread about my redfoot tortoise: he has been not eating anything for more than 10 days, meanwhile, no poop at all. Here are some photos of his enclosure down below: We built this new enclosure on April 2 because his old enclosure might be contaminate by...

just wondering from your guys experience and loads of research what substrate would you guys say is best for a redfoot tortoise.?

Would you guys say this is suitable ?

just wondering if these lights i have for my 12month old redfoot are suitable :)