Warren. Those look pretty darn good. Just break off and use the newer tender ones.
Do you keep that one outside all year, or bring some/most of it in?
We could now do with some Summer heat again....it’s been 51 all day. Yuck.
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Warren. Those look pretty darn good. Just break off and use the newer tender ones.
Do you keep that one outside all year, or bring some/most of it in?
We could now do with some Summer heat again....it’s been 51 all day. Yuck.
Have fun!!!
I only have one degree on you. I'm back with long sleeves and leggings to help keep me warm.
I try to use the tender ones as much as possible, there are so many new pads. I have been giving Sammy 1 pad about every other day, he was eating 1 pad everyday since they started growing new pads this spring but he was showing signs of diarrhea show I cut him back to 1 pad every other day. I don't bring the Cactus in doing the winter, they have survived the winter for 3 years now. My neighbor is the one that gave me a couple of pads a few years ago, her Cactus produces lots of fruit. I can pick all the fruit I want from her plants, mine don't produce fruit yet. Just want it to warm up and stay warm, Sammy goes to the door to go out and as soon as he feels the temperature he just turns around and go back to him room.
You can use a cheese grater to get the spines off. The base of my cactus flowers have a lot of real fine spines. A few members here that are very knowledgeable said they wouldn't bother Opo. I went ahead and fed them to him. They do not seem to bother him at all. I know some other members use a propane torch to burn them off.
I have been removing the thorns, each one individually with a parry knife while I submerge the pad in cold water ( Like removing the eyes of a raw potato). I know it possible to feed your tortoise some pads with thorns, but I will continue to make sure I get the thorns off before feeding. Like I said before, Sammy is spoiled and just after having his for just over 3 years now, he has me trained.
They definitely have us trained. ?
I took the spines off the pad I bought for Lola. They weren't that big and very fine so I the first few times I fed it I left them but they must have stuck in his mouth as he would suddenly pull his head in and leave it. Now I scrape them off he can't get enough!
Good morning and Happy Sunday.
It's bright and sunny here but with a good breeze too.
Lola's internal barometer is working and told him it's a good day and he has already gone out into the garden.
I'm going to follow him out to do some tidying up, so see you later.
It's bright and sunny here but with a good breeze too.
Lola's internal barometer is working and told him it's a good day and he has already gone out into the garden.
I'm going to follow him out to do some tidying up, so see you later.
I would fill it back in and pick a different spot.. looks like that ones taken
Good morning sleepy head! We will tell Maggie what you said!I would fill it back in and pick a different spot.. looks like that ones taken
ogh my gosh, far too much effort/work.
Remind us how large Mr Sammy is.... i used to just take a paring knife and trim around the perimeter. Now, just feed - then again, not many glochnoids on the brandy new tender ones.
Yes......comment probably toward the “buried treasure” which to me looks like the shell of an old Sulcata. ?
49 degrees here this morning! ?
Mother nature thinks we are all in Vermont - where it snowed yesterday - or in North Yorkshire!? Or Scotland.... Hello Summer, where art thou?
Mother nature thinks we are all in Vermont - where it snowed yesterday - or in North Yorkshire!? Or Scotland.... Hello Summer, where art thou?
Yesterday my scrappy Russian was in his outside pen with his heated night box that stays at 78. It was in the 60's and rainy so he of course was out and about trying to sun himself ?. So to his inside enclosure was he then taken. I know it's May but weather happens
I take a handful of newspaper and scrub the spines off that way...
One of my pots of cactus with the new growth. I just break these guys off & feed.
The UK isn't fairing too badly at the moment - temps supposed to be reaching abut 70F this week in some parts maybe more further south - but not for long 10 degrees less by Thurs. It's a rollercoaster!49 degrees here this morning! ?
Mother nature thinks we are all in Vermont - where it snowed yesterday - or in North Yorkshire!? Or Scotland.... Hello Summer, where art thou?
I like your Cactus, I noticed on the large one to the right it has already be sampled with a few bites taken out of it.
