Bedding Change

[Kevin Kaz]

How often do you guys recommend to change the bedding in their habitat if you have 3 babies?

 

[JoesMum]

Do you mean the substrate? Most people just spot clean

 

[Kevin Kaz]

Do you mean the substrate? Most people just spot clean

Yes that's what I mean!

 

[monsteramp]

but how do you spot clean urine?

 

[Rue]

I have the same question...

 

[JoesMum]

It's the poop that is spot cleaned. The urine doesn't seem to cause a problem. You can dig out any obviously pee-sodden, or urate-covered, substrate and replace that.

 

[Rue]

If I could see the urine, I'd clean it up. I can't see it.

 

[JoesMum]

If I could see the urine, I'd clean it up. I can't see it.

So don't worry

 

[Rue]

Easier said than done...

 

[Tom]

Baby leopards should be getting soaked daily. The vast majority of their pooping and peeing will be done in the soak water. I go the first few months with babies without them ever pooping or peeing in their enclosures. It is not until they are larger and several months old that I will begin skipping soak days and finally see some mess in the enclosure, but even then, it is hardly ever. Also, tortoise urine is pretty much plain water. Waste products are formed into uric acid. So if a tortoise is simply expelling excess water after a meal, it is really pretty innocuous, not like pee from a mammal. If visible urates are deposited, those can be removed along with any feces, and one's soaking/hydration routine should be re-evaluated at that point.

Given the above, I remove any uneaten food daily, and I don't ever replace the substrate until those tortoise babies move out and I want another different batch to move in.

 

[Linhdan Nguyen]

With pee, usually comes urates with my tortoises so i can see that and scoop it out. Since its wet the coco coir or soil clumps together well enough for me to scoop it out. When the substrate runs low, i add another brick of coco coir.